0 a movement (= a new style or set of principles) in art, literature, music, and film developed in the early 20th century that went against accepted ideas of what is beautiful or good art and used humour and the absurd (= things considered silly or that make no sense) as a way to protest against society:
These Swedish avant-garde movies are heavily influenced by Dadaism and Surrealism.
The post-First World War conditions gave birth to dadaism.
He was a pioneer of Dadaism and an experimental moviemaker.
He calls Gilbert a "proto-surrealist" who paved the way for Dadaism and the Theatre of the Absurd.
What Constructivism, Dadaism, and Surrealism all shared was their opposition to art-as-property.
Francis Picabia helped to introduce Dadaism to New York in 1915; his anti-art productions often portrayed senseless machinery.
Hogarth does for the 18th century what Dadaism did for the 20th - questions the value of art itself.
