Neo-Dada

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With Neo-Dada , a late 1950s created and until reaching the 1960s artistic movement is called, in accordance with Marcel Duchamp and the Dada movement wants to newly developed expressions combine the art with life. The creation of art was seen as a tool for raising awareness and for contemporary social criticism. Neo-Dada is the attempt to relativize everyday behavior with the help of art. The abstract expressionism was it rejected by the representatives of the Neo-Dadaism.

Badge on Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich

The term neo-Dadaism includes both a combination of the early tendencies of American Pop Art to deal with the world of things in the consumer industry and the attempts of the French Nouveau Réalisme to combine art and life by incorporating everyday materials into theirs Integrated art production and tried to create a “sociological reference” in their works. The staging of reality in action art is a special expression of the effort to bring art and life into line . Particularly in the development of this art form, there was a partial collaboration between the artists of both continents.

Finally, with Joseph Beuys , the Neo-Dada claim to combine art and life was absorbed in an “ expanded concept of art ” in social sculpture . The forms of expression further developed in Neo-Dada include object art , environment , assemblage , combine painting , happening , and fluxus .

In 2002 the Fondation Kroesus group occupied the vacant Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Spiegelgasse 1, the birthplace of Dadaism. There they organized happenings , concerts, open stages, Dada fairs, readings, workshops and Dada festival weeks for three months until the police evacuated them .

literature

  • Catherine Craft:  An audience of artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the emergence of abstract expressionism . The University of Chicago Press. Chicago 2012, ISBN 0-226-11680-8
  • Claudia List-Freytag (Ed.): Keyser's Large Style Lexicon Europe. 780 to 1980 . Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87405-150-1 (Keyser's handbooks for art and antique collectors).
  • Marcel Duchamp:  Marcel Duchamp: Dada e Neo-Dada . Armando Dada Editore. Locarno 2016, ISBN 978-88-8281-438-0
  • Susan Hapgood: Neo-Dada redefining art 1958-62. New York American Federation of Arts [u. a.]. New York 1994, ISBN 0-87663-629-6

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