Some art movements don't just change what hangs on gallery walls - they challenge the very idea of what art is, what it means, and who it belongs to. From wartime Switzerland to postwar New York, ...

1) The international revolutionary union of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical Communism; 2) The introduction of progressive unemployment through comprehensive ...

A century ago, international artists and writers met in Zurich to form a new movement, Dadaism. Their anti-art was a response to an ever-present issue: the madness of war. Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara and ...

When Dadaism began, it was primarily a response to World War I, to depressing nationalism and audacious capitalism. Defying the falsely perceived rationality of those in power, Dada artists used ...

It began with a longing to make the world a better place. While WWI raged, claiming what would amount to tens of millions of lives, it decimated the fantasy of order, leaving chaos and, as some would ...

As far as history goes back, art and architecture have always been interrelated disciplines. From the elaboration of the Baroque movement to the geometric framework of modernism, architects found ...