Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Stacy Alford- Dada
Founders of the Dada Movement:
Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, and Raoul Hausmann.
Designers in the Dada Movement:
Zurich, Switzerland- Jean Arp, Richard Hülsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco, and Emmy Hennings.
United States (New York)- Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, and Francis Picabia.
Berlin, Germany- Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, George Grosz, Johannes Baader, Hülsenbeck, Otto Schmalhausen, and Wieland Herzfelde and his brother John Heartfield (formerly Helmut Herzfelde, but Anglicized as a protest against German patriotism).
Cologne, Germany- Max Ernst, Johannes Baargeld, and Kurt Schwitters of Hannover.
Paris, France- Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault, Paul Éluard, and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (pamphlet writers)
Historical Events:
World War I
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
The RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic during its maiden voyage on April 15, 1912
The Panama Canal is completed in 1914
Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919
Economic boom ended by “Black Tuesday” (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression.
Monday, October 3, 2011
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