Word: propagandada
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...ultimately Paris. The first International Dada Fair took place in 1920 in Berlin, at an art gallery evoked here in a room similarly dominated by a hanging dummy dressed in a policeman's uniform wearing a fake pig's head. Members of Berlin's Club Dada, who specialized in "propagandada," are well represented. George Grosz, who served in the German army in the early days of the war, satirizes the false patriotism and misplaced optimism of postwar Germany in his Republican Automatons. Here two faceless capitalists - one with a flag, the other wearing a war medal - strut arrogantly, although their...
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