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...classic dada art work was an ordinary urinal that Marcel Duchamp put in an exhibition and entitled Fountain. It typified the cynical frustration that grew out of World War I, and the movement satirized all the other artistic isms of the time...
Last week staid old Zurich celebrated dada's 50th anniversary. Over a thou sand gathered where the Cabaret Voltaire once stood (and Lenin once lived...
Megaphones blared "Dada is all!" A brass band blasted off-key. And, heaven forfend, even the mayor, Emil Landolt, showed up to solemnly read a dada poem: "Switzerland is Dada. /Dada is nothing. /Superfluous mountains keep Switzerland from achieving concrete Dadaism. /Level the mountains...
...then unveiled a marble plaque to mark the site of dada's birth and an abstract navel designed by one of dada's founders, Jean Arp, for contemplation...
...Plaque reads: "In this house on February 5, 1916, the Cabaret Voltaire opened and the dada movement was founded...