dada |
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- (child language) father
- A cultural movement that began in w:Zí¼rich, Switzerland, Zí¼rich, Switzerland during w:World War I, World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1920. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by nihilism, deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, chance, randomness, and the rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
Translations: - Dutch: (t, nl, dadaí¯sme, n), dada(nl)n
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