DADA

DADA (c. 1916). Dada and Surrealism are popularly regarded as nearly synonymous movements, or as precursor and successor in the step-by-step history of modern art. Although their memberships overlapped and both espoused two major esthetic positions in common—the irrelevance of nineteenth-century forms of comprehension and the rejection of established modes of artistic rendering—they differed from each other in one crucial respect. Whereas Surrealism was the art of representing subconscious…