ABSTRACT
Dadaism (also called Dada) art and literary movement, starting around 1916 and fading by 1922, that rejected traditional forms of art through incongruity and nonsensicality. The term dada, a French baby-talk word for “hobbyhorse,” was chosen arbitrarily by Romanian-born writer Tristan Tzara because it was nonsensical. Revoking all accepted values in traditional art making, Dadaists used art techniques that were deliberately unintelligible and outrageous.
