Arts & Culture
The Dada Movement: Art as a Response to the Trauma of World War I
Quick fact
The name 'Dada' was reportedly chosen by sticking a paper knife into a dictionary, landing on the French word for hobbyhorse, and the movement’s founders intended it to mean 'nothing'.
Why this is interesting
Imagine a world where logic and reason have just led to the most devastating war in history. What would you create in response? For a group of artists in 1916, the answer was a profound embrace of nonsense.