Founded in 1979, the international dada archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic dada movement. The archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of documentation and Ò€¦ Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and were close to the radical far-left.

DadaÒ€ℒs subversive and revolutionary ideals emerged from the activities of a small group of artists and poets in zurich, eventually cohering into a set of strategies and philosophies adopted by a loose Ò€¦ Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in zΓΌrich, switzerland. It arose as a reaction to world war i and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Berlin dadaists embraced the tension and images of violence that characterized germany during and after the war, using absurdity to draw attention to the physical, psychological, and social trauma it Ò€¦