Dadaistic

Da·da or da·da (dä

dä)

A European artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.

[French dada, hobbyhorse, Dada, of baby-talk origin.]

Dada·ism n.

Dada·ist adj. & n.

Dada·istic adj.

Dada [ˈdɑːdɑː], Dadaism [ˈdɑːdɑːˌɪzəm]

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Movements) a nihilistic artistic movement of the early 20th century in W Europe and the US, founded on principles of irrationality, incongruity, and irreverence towards accepted aesthetic criteria

[from French, from a children's word for hobbyhorse, the name being arbitrarily chosen]

Dadaist n & adj

Dadaistic adj

Dadaistically adv

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Noun	1.	dada - an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop begetter, father, male parent - a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father); "his father was born in Atlanta"
	2.	dada - a nihilistic art movement (especially in painting) that flourished in Europe early in the 20th century; based on irrationality and negation of the accepted laws of beauty dadaism art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles

Translations

Dada [ˈdɑːdɑː]

A. N → dada m, dadaísmo m

B. ADJ → dadaísta

Dada

n (Art) → Dada m

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These contrivances are getting ever more ludicrous, practically dadaistic.

SOMETIMES IT'S TOUGH TO CURB ONE'S ENTHUSIASM FOR THIS AMUSINGLY ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

With sections removed from the walls, and with a table and chairs suspended from the ceiling, the structure of everyday domesticity was disarticulated in a manner at once surgical and dadaistic.

Architecture-eye: Hal Foster on Diller Scofidio + Renfro by Foster, Hal / Artforum International

Burian's first version of the material (1928) was a purely Dadaistic, self-consciously bizarre trifle based on improvisation, which did not even try to engage with original, but Burian returned to the play twice--once producing an incomplete treatment in 1949 and finally an opera version in 1956 with the changed title Racte odpustit [Be so good as to forgive].

E. F. Burian: composer by Bek, Josef / Czech Music

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