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Dada2|ˈdada|
[Fr. (être sur son dada, ride one's hobby-horse); title of a review which appeared at Zürich first in 1916, founded by Tzara (a Romanian poet), Arp (an Alsatian German artist), and Huelsenbeck (a German poet).]
Applied to an international movement in art and literature, characterized by a repudiation of traditional conventions and reason, and intended to outrage and scandalize. Hence ˈDadaism, the theory or practice of this movement. So ˈDadaist(e n. and a., Dadaˈistic, Dadaˈistical adjs. (Also with lower-case initials.)
1920A. Huxley Let. 4 May (1969) 184 The three I have mentioned are almost wholly dada in style and sympathy. Ibid., Most of the dadaist publications issue from a press named Au Sans Pareil. 1920Athenæum 13 Aug. 221/2 The movement ‘Dada’..has its headquarters in Paris, and its principal promoters are Francis Picabia and Tristan Tzara, neither of whom is of French nationality. Ibid., Mr. Dent defines Dadaism as being a ‘whole-heartedly æsthetic movement’, in contradistinction to ‘papaism’ and ‘nanaism’. Ibid. 222/2 [Guillaume Apollinaire's] most advanced, most nearly dadaistical poetry. 1920Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Sept. 569/3 M. Mille still believes in bon sens, clarity and humour as valuable assets in art, a belief which has got him into serious trouble with the Dadaistes. 1920Glasgow Herald 27 Nov. 6 Maeterlinck in his early days wrote verse not easily distinguishable from the work of the Dadaist. Ibid., Dada means nothing... We gather some idea of the Dada position. 1923A. Huxley On Margin 43 Dadaist literature always reminds me a little of..the inconsequent music of water. 1927G. Murray Class. Tradition ix. 254 Does this mean that the words are only sounds and the poem a collection of sounds? That is clearly nonsense—a form of nonsense that is admired in certain French coteries, and is called ‘dadaism’. 1934C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry 83 ‘Any work of art that can be understood is the product of a journalist’ (Dada Manifesto). Ibid. 86 That was in fact the position that the Dadaists took up. ‘Art is a private matter: the artist does it for himself.’ 1935D. Gascoyne Short Survey Surrealism 25 The Dada spirit was something shared by a number of extreme individualists of various nationalities, all of whom were in revolt against the whole of the epoch in which they lived. 1947A. E. Balakian Lit. Orig. Surrealism 141 If the Dadaists sought to place themselves beyond the control of Beauty and its rules, it was because of their inner consciousness of something greater. 1956C. Giedon-Welcker Contemp. Sculpture p. xiv, Dadaism created a metaphysic of banality by discovering the plastic vitality that emanates from nameless or unnoticed things. 1965Economist 18 Sept. 1197/2 During the past year there has been an underground film festival featuring the latest 8 mm dadaistic experiment. 1965H. Richter Dada 113 The idea of putting people in a position to exploit their mental and physical energies in a spirit of unbounded optimism and faith in themselves—this was the idea behind the wild and exuberant antics of Dada. |