dadaist

[dah-dah-ist]

adjective

1. characterized by the principles or style of dada.

noun

1. a practitioner of dada in art, music, or literature.

Example Sentences

Travesties was set in Zurich during World War One and featured Lenin, James Joyce, the Dadaist Tristan Tzara and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - to whose bright, brittle and self-consciously clever plays Stoppard's were sometimes compared.

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Then, the wine mom moved into her final, ironic stage: the surrealist meme, a dadaist take that almost brings the trope back to its real-life roots.

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His first photo exhibition was from Man Ray, the acclaimed surrealist and Dadaist who moved easily across a variety of mediums.

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Her first work, “Cutting Out the New York Times,” is a series of 26 Dadaist poems formed from printed headlines that ran in the paper in 1977.

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Among those who submitted works but won nothing: the British poet and novelist Robert Graves in 1924, the Dadaist George Grosz, in 1928, and Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture, in 1932.

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