The first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus exclusively on the brief but hugely influential movement, Dada surveys the six principal cities in which its artists worked between 1916 and 1924. This exhibition represents nearly fifty artists in over 400 pieces including paintings, collage, photomontage, readymade constructions, photographs and printed matter.
Birthplace of Dada, neutral Zurich is represented in its section of the exhibition as the refuge it was for a loosely-knit group of expatriated writers and artists who'd fled to Switzerland during World War I. United by their anger over the war, and availing themselves of the platform the avant-garde nightclub, Cafe Voltaire offered, founding members Hugo Ball, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Francis Picabia, Christian Schad and Sophie Taeuber-Arp dove headfirst into new ways of experimenting with abstract sight and thought.
To view any of the other five galleries, please see the Dada at MoMA index page.
Birthplace of Dada, neutral Zurich is represented in its section of the exhibition as the refuge it was for a loosely-knit group of expatriated writers and artists who'd fled to Switzerland during World War I. United by their anger over the war, and availing themselves of the platform the avant-garde nightclub, Cafe Voltaire offered, founding members Hugo Ball, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, Francis Picabia, Christian Schad and Sophie Taeuber-Arp dove headfirst into new ways of experimenting with abstract sight and thought.
To view any of the other five galleries, please see the Dada at MoMA index page.
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