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    Dada In French is a child's word for hobby-horse. In french, the colloquialism c'est mon dada means it's my hobby. A group of artists assembled in Zurich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a french-German dictionary with a paper knife. According to the dada ideal, the movement would not be called "daism," much less designated an art-movement.

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    Dada In French is a child's word for hobby-horse. In french, the colloquialism c'est mon dada means it's my hobby. A group of artists assembled in Zurich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a french-German dictionary with a paper knife. According to the dada ideal, the movement would not be called "daism," much less designated an art-movement.

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    One Explanation Maintains That It Originates From The Romanian Artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco

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    Dada In French is a child's word for hobby-horse. In french, the colloquialism c'est mon dada means it's my hobby. A group of artists assembled in Zurich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a french-German dictionary with a paper knife. According to the dada ideal, the movement would not be called "daism," much less designated an art-movement.

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    One explanation maintains that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent

    use of the words da, da, which, translated into English is equivalent to yeah, yeah, as in a sarcastic or facetious yeah, right. (Da in Romanian strictly translates as yes.) Another theory is a group of artists assembled in Zrich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon. Dada in French is a child's word for hobby-horse. In French, the colloquialism c'est mon dada means it's my hobby. According to the Dada ideal, the movement would not be called "Dadaism", much less designated an art-movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada#Origin_of_the_word_Dada
    Mar 28 10, 11:12 AM

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