Practice question · Multiple choice
Dada staged nonsense poems and attacked art's own premises, which reads as a joke. Why is it taken seriously?
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- Ask what was happening in Europe in 1916.
- What is being mocked, and by whom?
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D. Because it emerged in 1916, arguing about the reason that led there
Why
The absurdity is the content. Dada answers a civilisation that used its finest engineering to kill a generation, and the nonsense is a verdict on the sense that produced it.
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