Dadaism - as it relates to The Gideon Jones Chronicles... Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests, which many Dadaists believed were the root cause of the war, and against the cultural and intellectual conformity—in art and more broadly in society—that corresponded to the war.[4] Many Dadaists believed that the reason and logic of bourgeois capitalist society had led people into war. They expressed their rejection of that ideology in artistic expression that appeared to reject logic and embrace chaos and irrationality. For example, George Grosz later recalled that his Dadaist art was intended as a protest against this world of mutual destruction.[5] According to Hans Richter Dada was not art: it was anti-art.[4] Dada represented the opposite of everything which art stood for. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. As Hugo Ball expressed it, For us, art is not an end in itself ... but it is an opportunity for the true perception and criticism of the times we live in.[6] People should be appalled by war. To resist and declare it to be offensive is rational. This Gideon Jones Chronicles is an attempt to show that the underlying cause goes beyond greed and politics. There is a darkness bellow all of the aggressions and hostility in the world. The Gideon Jones Chronicles delves deeply into the origin and the power to resist. Read on...
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