The document discusses several key figures and movements associated with Dada and Surrealism. It provides background on Duchamp's readymades and how they undermined assumptions about art. It describes Dada's emergence amid World War I and the nihilistic attitudes it expressed. Key ideas included incorporating chance, undermining artistic genius, and using materials like photographs for political commentary. Figures like Picabia, Schwitters, and Man Ray employed techniques like collage, assemblage, photomontage and more to challenge conventions. Dada in Berlin had left-wing political sympathies and used photomontage for social commentary, while Surrealism aimed to access the unconscious through automatism.

3. Kurt Schwitters

8. ‘ Merz picture with Candle’ ‘Merz with rainbow’

9. ‘ Hitler Gang’ 1944

11. Francis Picabia

12. Picabia ‘ 1879 – 1953) artist and writer/editor Identified by some as the originator of Dada He was a nihilist – anti-Life Produced the Dada periodical 391 – anti-art Although he waged a ‘truly desperate battle against art he never escaped it. Anti- art gestures – challenge to traditional art-forms – artworks which are unconventional – use of collage.

20. Man Ray (1890 – 1977) American Artist

45. John Heartfield (1891 – 1968)

50. Hurrah the butter is gone