Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Dada sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Dada (1916 – 1924), it traces two movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Cubism and Expressionism; it runs alongside one parallel movement, a well-established link: Incoherents; it fans out to 14 movements it went on to influence, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Assemblage, Auto-destructive art, Conceptual art, Dau-al-Set, Fluxus, Gutai group, Happening, Kinetic art, Letterism and Neo-Dada, and four more.
Dada (/ˈdɑːdɑː/) or Dadaism was an international art movement that developed in the context of World War I and its aftermath and the Futurist movement, first established in Zürich, Switzerland, and later quickly spread to Berlin, Paris, New York City and a variety of artistic centers in Europe and Asia. The Dada movement's principles were first collected in Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto in 1916. Ball is seen as the founder of the Dada movement. Other key figures in the movement included Emmy Hennings, Jean Arp, Johannes Baader, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Höch, Richard Huelsenbeck, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Tristan Tzara, and Beatrice Wood, among others. Read more ↗
