Dada at the MoMa: A Timely Exhibition

The Dada exhibition at the MoMa is eerily timely.

Dada was the explosive, artfully inarticulate rejection of a false consensus in politics, society, and art — a consensus that was supporting a barbaric war (read All Quiet on the Western Front if you need a refresher) and, after 1918, an increasingly stifling intellectual and political climate that, by eliminating individualism, gave rise to the totalitarian nightmares of the 1930s and 1940s. Here’s an online sample of some of the works on display. Highly recommended![tags]dada, moma, culture[/tags]

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