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| What event triggered the First World War? |
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| In what year did the First World War begin? |
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| What five new military technologies were used for the first time in the First World War? |
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1. airplane
2. poison gas
3. tanks
4. machine gun
5. artillery pieces |
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| What did Dadaists think of the First World War? |
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| a gross paradox in which the conflict ended by destroying precisely those aspects of civilization that it was being fought to protect |
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| Why did Dadaists reject the great art and literature of the European tradition? |
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| they saw it as symbols of culture bent on mass suicide |
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| What was Tristan Tsara's definition of Dada? |
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| Where did Dada first emerge and in what year? |
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Europe and the US (Zurich, New York, Cologne, and Paris)
1916 |
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| Who was the owner of the Cabaret Voltaire? |
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| Who wrote one of the important histories of Dada? |
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| What contributions did Tristan Tzara make to Dada? |
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| introduced manifestos and 'noise music' |
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| What "new species of verse" did Hugo Ball claim to have invented? |
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| What Dadaist is particularly known for his primitive looking masks? |
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| With what two techniques did Jean Arp experiment as a Dadaist? |
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| separating thought from practice |
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| What law did Arp say could only be experienced through complete devotion to the unconscious? |
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| How were Arp's Dadaist sculptures made? |
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| making wooden reliefs on carpenter cut sections of wood |
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| In what medium was Sophie Taeuber-Arp trained? |
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| Why did Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp call their collaborative work an "art of silence"? |
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| because they wanted it to simplify and transmute the world and make it beautiful |
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| What was the last year of Dada activity in Zürich? |
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| At whose gallery did Francis Picabia first show his work in New York? |
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| At whose home did the New York Dadaists frequently meet? |
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| What did Picabia mean by pensée pure? |
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| themes perceived physically |
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| Why did Picabia call his magazine 391? |
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| because it was a continuation of Stieglitz' 291 |
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| What famous painting did Duchamp show at the New York Armory Show in 1913? |
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| What did Duchamp call art that was not only an object in the world but also a fact in consciousness? |
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| What did Duchamp use as a ready-made for In Advance of the Broken Arm? |
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| Why did Duchamp inscribe sentences on his ready-mades? |
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| to carry the mind of the speculator toward other regions more verbal |
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| How was Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even finished? |
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| after being broken and repaired |
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| According to Duchamp, to does the pendu femelle in The Bride stripped Bare indicate? |
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| How did Duchamp alter a poster of the Mona Lisa? |
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| drew a moustache, beard, and added L.H.O.O.Q |
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| To what did Duchamp devote himself after giving up making art? |
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| What did Duchamp use to make an installation at the Surrealist exhibition in New York in 1942? |
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| What can you see if you look through the holes in the door of Duchamp's Being Given….? |
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| A bed of leaves and branches on which a life-like nude woman is lying |
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| How was Man Ray nearly decapitated in 1920? |
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| he was narrowly missed by flying shards from a spinning shattered plate |
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| How did Man Ray produce his Rayographs? |
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| by placing objects on photo paper and exposing it to light before developing it |
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| To what medium did Man Ray become most devoted during the latter part of his career? |
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| What did German Dadaists do that later led the Nazis to condemn all avant-garde art? |
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| allied themselves with the radical Marxists in Russia |
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| In what city did Richard Huelsenbeck found a German Dada movement? |
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| What medium did many German Dadaists use because artists’ supplies were not readily available in Germany after the war? |
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| caricatures and photomontages |
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| In what German city did Max Ernst help to create a Dada movement? |
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| What did visitors encounter when they entered the Dada exhibition organized by Ernst and Baargeld in Cologne? |
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-a young girl wearing a communion dress and reading obscene poetry.
-a large wooden sculpture that visitors destroyed with an axe |
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| With whom did Ernst create works called Fatagaga? |
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| What did Schwitters say that art was instead of expression? |
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| consisted of "composition" |
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| What did Schwitters call all of his work? |
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| What did the term Merzbau describe? |
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| Where was the De Stijl movement organized? |
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| What kind of style were the De Stijl artists concerned with creating? |
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| geometrically non-objective painting |
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| What is another name for the De Stijl movement? |
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| To what in nature did Mondrian’s “plus and minus” compositions refer? |
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| to evoke movement of the ocean against the piers of a dock |
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| What did Schoenmaekers, and important influence on Mondrian, identify as the underlying principle of construction in nature? |
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| What did “equivalent terms” describe for Mondrian? |
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| Where did Mondrian spend the last years of his life? |
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| What kind of music inspired Mondrian in his last works? |
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