Dada

Dada
(Fr. ‘hobby-horse’, a name chosen at random from a dictionary), a movement in art and literature founded c. 1916 in Zurich and more or less simultaneously in New York. The movement's aim was nihilistic, a denial of sense or order; it lasted until the early 1920s, with Paris as its centre from 1920 . Writers connected with Dada included Tristan Tzara, who appears as a character in Stoppard 's Travesties , which is set in Zurich during the First World War. Notable among Dada artists were Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Aragon and A. Breton went on to develop the surrealist movement which evolved in part from Dada.