Dada was born 100 years ago in the "total pandemonium" of Zurich’s wild Cabaret Voltaire

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Dada was born 100 years ago in the "total pandemonium" of Zurich’s wild Cabaret Voltaire.

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Dada 3 

Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːdɑː/ 

NOUN

An early 20th-century movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating andmocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.

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Dada was launched in Zurich in 1916 by Tristan Tzara and others, soon merging with a similar group in New York. It favoured montage, collage, and the ready-made. Leading figures: Jean Arp, André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp.

Derivatives

Dadaism

Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːdəɪz(ə)m/ 

NOUN

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Dadaist

Pronunciation: /ˈdɑːdəɪst/ 

NOUN& ADJECTIVE

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Dadaistic

Pronunciation: /dɑːdɑˈɪstɪk/ 

ADJECTIVE

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Origin

French, literally 'hobby horse', the title of a review published in Zurich in 1916.

pandemonium 

Pronunciation: /ˌpandɪˈməʊnɪəm/ 

NOUN

[MASS NOUN]

Wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar:there was complete pandemonium—everyone just panicked

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Origin

Mid 17th century: modern Latin (denoting the place of all demons, in Milton's Paradise Lost), from pan- 'all' + Greek daimōn 'demon'.

Pandemonium 

For book 1 of his epic poem Paradise Lost, published in 1667, John Miltoninvented Pandemonium – from the Greek pan (all), and daimon (evil spirit), literally "a place for all the demons" – or, as Milton first expressed in the poem: "A solemn Councel forthwith to be held At Pandæmonium, the high Capital Of Satan and his Peers." Later in the work he calls it the "citie and proud seat of Lucifer". By the end of the century, Pandemonium had become a synonym not just for hell, but, because the devils created a lot of noise, uproar and tumult. In 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton applied it to a common location: "We found ourselves in that dreary pandaemonium … a Gin-shop." Today, the term is applied to any scene of disarray, confusion or even heightened activity as in the headline: iPad pandemonium.