THE 19TH CENTURIES ART

DADAISM
The first major anti-art movement, Dada was a revolt against the culture and
values which it was believed had caused and supported the carnage of the first world war
(1914-18). It quickly developed into an anarchistic type of highly avant-garde art whose aim was
to subvert and undermine the value system of the ruling establishment which had allowed the
war to happen, including the arts establishment which they viewed as inextricably linked to the
descriptive socio political status quo