(/ˈdɑːdɑː/)
Noun
1. A cultural movement in the early 20th century that primarily involved visual arts, literature (mainly poetry), theatre, and graphic design, and was characterized by nihilism, deliberate irrationality, disillusionment, cynicism, chance, randomness, and the rejection of the prevailing standards in art.
…I told Anne that I see Rei as a Romantic from early 19th century, a time when painters started depicting fires, ruins, decay and painted people from the back in a rebuke to the sickening self righteousness of the Enlightenment and by extension as a dada trying to destroy art.
From the post: How ELLE magazine ruined an incredible interview with enigmatic fashion icon Rei Kawakubo
Source: ELLE on Earth (observer.com)
