1. Art and Artists in the Dada Movement
... the Cabaret Voltaire), the traumatic presence of the war was in almost every aspect of their work although the response was sublimated. Duchamp's defiance of the tradition of oil painting encouraged other NY dadaists to question the aspects of the art-making process; Picabia also shared this. NY Dada protested against this physical side of painting. Duchamp's "Chocolate Grinder no.2"" of 1914 showed the rejection of the ... artist's individual touch, a break with the ... a group dynamic open to all forms of style as a way of preserving the notion of individuality which was under threat ...
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