dadaist

American  

[dah-dah-ist] / ˈdɑ dɑ ɪst /

adjective

1. characterized by the principles or style of dada.

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noun

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

Example Sentences

“Travesties,” Stoppard’s 1974 play, is built on the coincidence that James Joyce, Dadaist Tristan Tzara, and Vladimir Lenin all happened to be in Zurich during World War I — a cultural happenstance that paved the way for a dizzying alternative history, in which art faces off against politics.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From BBC

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.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times