Arts & Culture
Dadaism's Rejection of Aesthetics in Early 20th Century Art
Quick fact
The word 'Dada' was reportedly chosen at random from a dictionary; it means 'hobbyhorse' in French, but the artists liked its childish, nonsensical sound, perfectly matching their rejection of logic.
Why this is interesting
You've probably seen a urinal in an art museum—but why did it start a revolution? In 1917, a man named Marcel Duchamp put a store-bought urinal on a pedestal and called it 'Fountain,' and that single act shattered centuries of ideas about what art was supposed to be.