<P> Dada (/ ˈdɑːdɑː /) or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant - garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916); New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris . Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works . The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut - up writing, and sculpture . Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with the radical left . </P> <P> There is no consensus on the origin of the movement's name; a common story is that the Austrian artist Richard Huelsenbeck plunged a knife at random into a dictionary, where it landed on "dada", a colloquial French term for a hobby horse . Others note that it suggests the first words of a child, evoking a childishness and absurdity that appealed to the group . Still others speculate that the word might have been chosen to evoke a similar meaning (or no meaning at all) in any language, reflecting the movement's internationalism . </P> <P> The roots of Dada lay in pre-war avant - garde . The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 to characterize works which challenge accepted definitions of art . Cubism and the development of collage and abstract art would inform the movement's detachment from the constraints of reality and convention . The work of French poets, Italian Futurists and the German Expressionists would influence Dada's rejection of the tight correlation between words and meaning . Works such as Ubu Roi (1896) by Alfred Jarry, and the ballet Parade (1916--17) by Erik Satie would also be characterized as proto - Dadaist works . The Dada movement's principles were first collected in Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto in 1916 . </P>

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