ARTH 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marcel Duchamp, World War I, Dont
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Dada was very unconventional most art was based on the law of chance. There"s 4 places of primary dada: zurich, new york, berlin & paris (which isn"t shown here) Zurich started in 1913 around wwi. Cabarete voltaire: through exhibitions and demonstrations they showed what dada often is and it"s often protestation. They were protesting the insanity of that war. They felt that things were going too chaotic. He"s posed his head onto a roulette wheel the law of chance. 1919 a year after wwi ends. This is a postcard with a pencil reproduction. You take an existing image or object and make some changes and claim the art as your own. It is unconventional it"s a protest piece. He takes an icon from history and defaces it in showing that we aren"t truly civilized. Lhooq lady has a hot ass the first letters of the french statement. This is a men"s urinal tipped upside down.
