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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
Billy Childish

Meaning of "Dada" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DADA

From French, from a children's word for hobbyhorse, the name being arbitrarily chosen.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DADA

Dada  [ˈdɑːdɑː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DADA

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Dada is a noun.
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WHAT DOES DADA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Dada

Dada /ˈdɑːdɑː/ or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. Many claim Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter but the height of New York Dada was the year before, in 1915. To quote Dona Budd's The Language of Art Knowledge, Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsensical word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara's and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words "da, da," meaning "yes, yes" in the Romanian language. Another theory says that the name "Dada" came during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse'.

Definition of Dada in the English dictionary

The definition of Dada in the dictionary is 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DADA


Bida
ˈbaɪdɑː
dadah
ˈdɑːˌdɑː
dah
dɑː
Damodar
ˈdæməˌdɑː
deodar
ˈdiːəʊˌdɑː
doodah
ˈduːdɑː
gospodar
ˈɡɒspəˌdɑː
Jalandhar
ˈdʒælænˌdɑː
la-de-da
ˌlɑːdiːˈdɑː
lidar
ˈlaɪdɑː
Oujda
uːdʒˈdɑː
RADA
ˈrɑːdɑː
radar
ˈreɪdɑː
sardar
səˈdɑː
shraddha
ˈʃrɑːdɑː
siddha
ˈsɪdɑː
sidha
ˈsɪdɑː
sirdar
ˈsɜːdɑː
Skikda
ˈskɪkdɑː
zamindar
zəmiːnˈdɑː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DADA

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DADA

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Synonyms and antonyms of Dada in the English dictionary of synonyms

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达达
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दादा
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دادا
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Dada
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Dada
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দাদা
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Dada
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Dada
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dada
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ダダ
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다다
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Dada
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dada
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தாதா
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दादा
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Dada
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Dada
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dada
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Dada
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Dada
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Dada
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Dada
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dada
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Dada

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5 QUOTES WITH «DADA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Dada.
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Billy Childish
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
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Marcel Duchamp
Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude.
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Marcel Duchamp
From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.
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Jeff Koons
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
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Richard Phillips
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DADA»

Discover the use of Dada in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Dada and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dada: Art and Anti-art
The drama of this movement from its birth in 1916 to its alleged end in 1922.
Hans Richter, 1965
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Dada in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Dada: The Collections of The Museum of Modern Art is the first publication devoted exclusively to MoMAs unrivalled collection of Dada works.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Anne Umland, Adrian Sudhalter, 2008
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Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism
This new collection updates, integrates, and contextualizes Richard Sheppard's essays on the historical avant-garde. Sheppard examines responses of modernist writers, artists, and philosophers to a changed sense of reality and human nature.
Richard Sheppard, 2000
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Dada
Originally published: New York: Phaidon Press, 2006.
Rudolf Kuenzli, 2011
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Dada & Surrealist Film
This groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.
Rudolf E. Kuenzli, 1996
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The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin
In an era when technology, biology & culture are becoming ever more closely connected, 'The Dada Cyborg' explains how the cyborg as we know it today developed between 1918 & 1933 as German artists gave visual form to their utopian hopes & ...
Matthew Biro, 2009
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Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity
This book is the first to make the case that women's changing role in European and American society was critical to Dada.
Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, 2001
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Memoirs of a Dada Drummer
Richard Huelsenbeck's memoirs bring to life the intellectual, artistic, and political concerns of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document its controversies.
Richard Huelsenbeck, Hans J. Kleinschmidt, 1991
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Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
. Indispensable for an understanding of the beginnings of the Dada movement and Dada in Zurich."--Rudolf Kuenzli, Director, International Dada Archive "In Flight Out of Time one can follow Dada's unfolding and expansion almost day-by-day.
Hugo Ball, John Elderfield, 1996
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The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
Presents a collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations that provide an overview of the Dada movement in art, describing its convictions, antics, and spirit, through the words and art of its principal practitioners.
Robert Motherwell, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DADA»

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Happy Birthday Sourav Ganguly: 'Deadly' Dada's Epic Journey of 43 …
Happy birthday dada @SGanguly99 have a great year ahead! God bless! — Anil Kumble (@anilkumble1074) July 8, 2015 ... «NDTVSports.com, Jul 15»
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Granddaughter's Pram Rolled Onto Railway Track. Indian Dada
Sydney: A 62-year-old Indian man did not think twice before leaping in front of an approaching train to save his 18-month-old granddaughter at ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
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Urvashi to Play Darshan's Mother in Jaggu Dada
While Darshan is busy completing two projects - Viraat and Airavata, director Raghavendra Hegde is gearing up to start his film, Jaggu Dada. «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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The Goons: from Dada to Seinfeld and the absurdity in between
Dada petered out, perhaps because of such characteristics, which limited their demographic somewhat. But, the emphasis on the utter ... «Daily Review, Jul 15»
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“We Need a New Skin Color”: The Racial Imagination of Dada
The centenary of Dada is almost upon us. If the movement had an identifiable beginning, it was certainly at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich in ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
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BRIEF-Dada unit to buy Etinet for 700000 euros
July 2 Dada SpA : * Unit Register.it SpA signs binding agreement for acquisition of 100 percent stake in Etinet Srl for price of 700,000 euros ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
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Rev. Dada JP Vaswani addressed a diverse audience Stay …
Oak Brook, IL: Dada addressed a diverse audience of more than 500 people on Saturday, June 6, at the Drake Hotel, in Oak Brook, IL, a suburb ... «Chicago Tribune, Jun 15»
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Dada Life announce lineup for festival in Devore and more Inland …
Swedish electro and progressive house act Dada Life has announced its supporting acts for the July 18 Insomniac & Dada Life Present: The ... «Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Jun 15»
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Christian Dada Forms a Biker Gang for Spring/Summer 2016 …
While the brand's Fall/Winter 2015 collection was riddled with anarchist and anti-authoritarian motifs, this time around Christian Dada's looks ... «Highsnobiety, Jun 15»
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The Dada of Indian cricket
This is a book written by a sports aficionado and Sourav Ganguly fan, who is also a blogger and digital marketing expert with Infosys. Hence the ... «The Asian Age, Jun 15»

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