Neo Dada

Yoshimura Masanobu advertises Neo Dada group exhibition near Ginza, Tokyo, 1961.

Georges Maciunas /Fluxus When an artist named George Maciunas looked up the word "flux" in the dictionary in 1960, he found seventeen definitions. "Flux" can be used as a verb, an adjective, or a noun. The multiplicity of the word made it the perfect term for the art movement he was in the proces

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As we move around the world in geography, I thought it would be fun to learn about some artists in each of the countries that we visit. But what fun is an art class with only two people in it?...

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One hundred years ago, amid the devastation of WWI’s trench warfare, Dada — the political, absurdist avant-garde art movement that flourished from around 1916 to the mid-1920s — was born among artists and writers in Paris, New York, Zurich, and Cologne as a critique of the brutality, nationalism, censorship, authoritarianism, and conformity of the times. […]

A guide to the generation of artists that led American art away from the dogmas of Abstract Expressionism to the more freewheeling, object-besotted aesthetic of the 1960s.

Born Joannes Hoch in 1889, Gotha in Germany, Hoch went on to become a leading female artists within the Dadaist movement, inventing Photomontage as an artform and defying social convention in 1920's - 30's Germany.

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Radical movements often espouse the most conservative of values. Dada claimed it was radical, anti-bourgeoise, and anti-capitalist in its aesthetics. But two of its key members (George Grosz and John Heartfield) refused to include any women (or their work) in the movement. Women, they said, were there to make the sandwiches, pour the beer, and … Continue reading "Hannah Höch, The Artist Who Wanted ‘to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it’"

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The title of this painting is a double entendre: it describes the numerical subject of the painting as well as the manner in which the viewer literally sees each number through the others. One of eleven paintings of superimposed numbers that Jasper Johns made in 1960-1961, the genesis of this work can be traced to the mid-1950s, when the artist began painting single numbers using commercial stencils. Johns has remarked that he was drawn to everyday signs and symbols as subjects, since their…

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I was rummaging through old files prior to donating them to the School of Visual Arts’ The Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, when I stumbled upon a folder called “eccentrics.” The sole contents was a sheath of correspondence to me from Ray Johnson (1927–1995). He was a collagist and leading correspondence artist involved in Neo-Dada and early Pop art. As “New York’s most famous unknown artist” he was associated with the Fluxus movement and in the 1960s founded t

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Jasper Johns. Summer. 1985. Encaustic on canvas. 6' 3