Lecture notes/summary from 10/15/10

In this lecture Bill described Dada and the history of Dada.

Dada began in WWI as a protest against war, society, and the old social order. Many of those who would become Dadaists fled to the neutral Switzerland, where they planned to wait out the craziness of war. One such person was Hugo Ball, who in Zurich (1916) opened the Cabaret Voltaire. The Voltaire became a meeting place for those who would become the founders of Dada, and thus was the womb of Dada. Some other notable Dada artists include Jean Arp, Kurt Schwitters, and Marcel Duchamp. There were later movements that occured in Berlin (1919) and Paris (1924). In Paris, Dada eventually morphed into surrealism.

Some of the contributions made by Dadaism were
- appropriation
-assemblage and construction
- conceptual art
-chance