Dadaism & Surrealism has helped to educate and shape the way people today view art and has led to a new form of expression in the modern world. ... It emerged largely in response to the atrocities and insanity, "the disillusion, defeatism, and insane butchery of World War 1" (William, Flemming, Arts & Ideas, 6th Edition, Syracuse New York, pp 423) and wanting to find, and experiment with new forms of expression attempting to revive the creative act. ... Where society valued rational the Dadaist embraced the irrational. ...

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