quoted 7 lines Are you possibly confusing dada with symbolism?> > > Are you possibly confusing dada with symbolism?
> >
> >Nope. :->
>
> Are you just meaning "statements and messages" in the sense of there being
> a conceptual component to the works, ie. it's art that was all about
> commenting on or questioning art and its function?
In a way. I think everything in Dada was a "statement" more so than in
lots of other art movements. Dada art was about more than just the art
itself. It wasn't just meaningless art done for "art's sake" (that
statement is one of my pet peeves, because there's really no such thing).
Dada was very much a response to the absurdism of WWI and it was a sneer
and a slap in the face of convention.
Andrei
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