Dadaist

dadaist English Alternative forms en dadaist Etymology en :af Dada -ist + 1 Pronunciation en /ˈdɑːdɑːɪst/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Dadaist.wav US Adjective - In the style of Dada. en Ara Merjian How World War I gave birth to the modern w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinion/merjian-art-modern-wwi/index.html/RK=0/RS=BExqctfav6SfPUfIVY1LkIu17tE- 2014-10-30 Breton's Surrealist movement transformed Dadaist despair -- at both the war and the technologies that had led to it -- into a constructive assault on social and sexual norms. Noun An artist or writer who practiced Dada. en Frederic Golden Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century w:CNN https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/12/27/einstein.html 1999-12-27 To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century." https://web.archive.org/web/20251206202000/https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/12/27/einstein.html 6 December 2025 en Artists People