The Dada movement in Italy, based in Mantova, was met with distaste and failed to make a significant impact in the art world.

He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal.

Since the early 1980s, Japan has produced a significant output of characteristically harsh bands, sometimes referred to under the portmanteau Japanoise, with perhaps the most well known being Merzbow ( pseudonym for the Japanese noise artist Masami Akita who himself was inspired by the Dada artist Kurt Schwitters's Merz art project of psychological collage ).

In addition to being anti-war, Dada was also anti-bourgeois and had political affinities with the radical left.

Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America.

Hannah Höch, Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany, 1919, collage of pasted papers, 90x144 cm, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics.

He bombarded French and Italian artists and writers with letters, and soon emerged as the Dada leader and master strategist.

Zurich Dada, with Tzara at the helm, published the art and literature review Dada beginning in July 1917, with five editions from Zurich and the final two from Paris.

In an attempt to " pay homage to the spirit of Dada " a performance artist named Pierre Pinoncelli made a crack in The Fountain with a hammer in January 2006 ; he also urinated on it in 1993.

The French avant-garde kept abreast of Dada activities in Zurich with regular communications from Tristan Tzara ( whose pseudonym means " sad in country ," a name chosen to protest the treatment of Jews in his native Romania ), who exchanged letters, poems, and magazines with Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, Max Jacob, Clément Pansaers, and other French writers, critics and artists.

Jean Crotti exhibited works associated with Dada including a work entitled, Explicatif bearing the word Tabu.

Other composers such as Erwin Schulhoff, Hans Heusser and Albert Savinio all wrote Dada music, while members of Les Six collaborated with members of the Dada movement and had their works performed at Dada gatherings.

Upon breaking up in July 2012, famous anarchist pop band Chumbawamba issued a statement which compared their own legacy with that of the Dada art movement.

In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a Dada exhibition in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C. and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Though not a direct participant in Berlin Dada's activities, he employed Dadaist ideas in his work, used the word itself on the cover of Anna Blume, and would later give Dada recitals throughout Europe on the subject with Theo Van Doesburg, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp and Raoul Hausmann.

Whilst his work was far less political than key figures in Berlin Dada, such as George Grosz and John Heartfield, he would remain close friends with various members, including Hannah Hoch and Raoul Hausmann for the rest of his career.

Early photos show the Merzbau with a grotto-like surface and various columns and sculptures, possibly referring to similar pieces by Dadaists, including the Great Plasto-Dio-Dada-Drama by Johannes Baader, shown at the first International Dada Fair, Berlin, 1920.

World War I scattered the writers and artists who had been based in Paris, and in the interim many became involved with Dada, believing that excessive rational thought and bourgeois values had brought the conflict of the war upon the world.

Back in Paris, Breton joined in Dada activities and started the literary journal Littérature along with Louis Aragon and Philippe Soupault.

The artists, with their roots in Dada and Cubism, the abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky, Expressionism, and Post-Impressionism, also reached to older " bloodlines " such as Hieronymus Bosch, and the so-called primitive and naive arts.

Inspired by Tzara, Paris Dada soon issued manifestos, organized demonstrations, staged performances and produced a number of journals ( the final two editions of Dada, Le Cannibale, and Littérature featured Dada in several editions.

French painter Gustave Courbet's attempt to disassemble the Vendôme column during the 1871 Paris Commune was probably one of the first artistic vandalist acts, celebrated at least since Dada performances during World War I.

Although most of their performances have been in northeastern Ohio ( primarily at Cabaret Dada, the Second City Cleveland theater and the House of Blues ) they have also performed in Chicago at the Chicago Sketchfest, Washington, D. C. and in Los Angeles at the ImprovOlympic theater.

Down to a duo, Massimo & Pierce released in April the album Chemism and the EP Dies Juvenalis and played a number of live performances, including the Transformer Festival in Biel, Switzerland ( with Val Denham ) the IV Congresso Post Industriale in Prato, Italy and the Dada Industrial Nights in Pavia, Italy.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

Van Doesburg mainly focused on poetry, and included poems from many well-known Dada writers in De Stijl such as Hugo Ball, Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters.

Van Doesburg wrote Dada poetry himself in De Stijl, although under a pseudonym, I. K.

Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art.

The Dadaists claimed that Dada was not an art movement, but an anti-art movement, sometimes using found objects in a manner similar to found poetry.

He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street Theatre group Street Dada Nihilismus.

Dada is the groundwork to abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to postmodernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of antiart to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, " Le Grand Jeu " with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.

Free verse and typographic experimentation also emerged in Un Coup de Dés Jamais N ' Abolira Le Hasard by Stéphane Mallarmé, anticipating Dada and concrete poetry.

He also published Dada poetry under the same name in De Stijl.

The poets of this movement, soon known as İkinci Yeni (" Second New "), opposed themselves to the social aspects prevalent in the poetry of Nâzım Hikmet and the Garip poets, and instead — partly inspired by the disruption of language in such Western movements as Dada and Surrealism — sought to create a more abstract poetry through the use of jarring and unexpected language, complex images, and the association of ideas.

The poets of this movement, soon known as İkinci Yeni (" Second New ",) opposed themselves to the social aspects prevalent in the poetry of Nâzım Hikmet and the Garip poets, and instead — partly inspired by the disruption of language in such Western movements as Dada and Surrealism — sought to create a more abstract poetry through the use of jarring and unexpected language, complex images, and the association of ideas.

Dada ( sometimes called Dadaism ) is a post-World War I cultural movement in visual art as well as literature ( mainly poetry ), theatre and graphic design.

One of the key figures in Berlin Dada, his experimental photographic collages, sound poetry and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant-Garde in the aftermath of World War I.

Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal " Neue Wege " (" New Ways ") in 1952.

After the end of the war he joined the Dada movement and soon after, in 1921, he published Le Passager du transtlantique – his first book of poetry before he abandoned the Dada movement to follow, instead, André Breton and the emerging Surrealist movement whereupon he worked alongside, and influencing, the Mexican writer Octavio Paz.