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Dame Edna emerged when the young Mr. Humphries, under the sway of Dadaism, was performing with a repertory company based at the University of Melbourne; he had dropped out of the university two years before.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023

Wrestling with that idea, Stoppard cited “Travesties,” his cerebral 1974 play about Dadaism, and the metaphysical musings in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,” in which two secondary “Hamlet” characters are promoted to center stage.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2022

The conversation was like Dadaism, it really was.

From Salon • May 9, 2022

Duchamp had the lightest attitude towards art but his mindset was formed over a long time, taking in poetry, French literature, the attitudes of that generation, Dadaism and surrealism.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2020

Then her instructor started speaking about Dadaism: an artistic movement that says art is whatever the creator thinks it is.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2018