Dadaism

In Our Time: Culture by BBC

Apr 16, 202650:58Society & Culture

Misha Glenny and guests discuss the provocative artistic phenomenon that first startled audiences in 1916 in Zurich. There, at the Cabaret Voltaire at the Holländische Meierei on the Spiegelgasse, Emmy Hennings and Hugo...

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