Michel Carassou, Henri Béhar - Dada: História de ma Subversão

During the carnage of the First World War, a wind of revolt was blowing through Europe. From Zurich to Paris, Dadaist fever infected revolutionary artists and challenged the complacency of the bourgeois world, denouncing the reigning (dis)order as a suffocating farce.

Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball, in Zurich, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, in New York, and Kurt Schwitters, in Hanover, among many others, made a mockery of all the powers that impeded freedom of expression and creation, in the name of a nihilistic anti-art of protest and vital spontaneity. Without dogmas or disciples, Dadaism resorted to scandal; there were many exhibitions and soirees at the Cabaret Voltaire, which angered the public, and manifestos that still retain their corrosive tone today. A work of criticism and reflection, Dada - História de Uma Subversão traces the genesis and coordinates of the Dadaist adventure, the purest and most violent artistic expression of the 20th century.