Dada

Question 1

Answer 1

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919

Dada began in Zurich as protest against WWI, iconoclastic, questioning rationality of enlightened society that sends men to war- “Dada” is meaningless, gibberish- “harlequinade made of nothingness”

Duchamp one of most famous practitioners- Parisian Dada- Anti-art art, attacks establishment

Drew mustache and goatee on postcard- rejects traditional art forms, art as conceptual/action based; rejects understanding of art as skilled manipulation of materials, art as product of genius, mocks reverence for Mona Lisa

Mondegreen (near homophony): “Elle a chaud au cul”