Neo-Dada

With a Neo-Dada in the late 1950s and formed up in the 1960s, reaching artistic movement is called who wants to connect based on Marcel Duchamp and the Dada movement through newly developed expressions of the art with life. The abstract expressionism was doing rejected by the representatives of neo- Dadaism.

The term Neo - Dada includes both a combination of the early tendencies of American Pop Art, to deal with the material world of the consumer industry, and the attempts of the French New Realism, art and life than to combine with each other by the artists everyday materials in their art production and integrated in their works a " sociological terms " herzustellten tried. A special expression of the effort to approximation of art and life is the staging of reality in action art. In particular, in the development of this art form, there was a partial cooperation between artists from both continents.

With Joseph Beuys, including the claim of the Neo -Dada, art and life went to connect, " extended definition of art " in a social sculpture on. The further developed in Neo -Dada expressions include object art, Environment, Assemblage, combine painting, happenings, Fluxus.

In 2002, the group Croesus Foundation held at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, spiegelgasse 1, the birthplace of Dadaism, three months happenings and other ideas.