Author Question: The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to: A. pictorialism and photography of the American ... (Read 188 times)

TVarnum · **on:** Jun 23, 2018

The Dada movement was formed as a reaction to:

A. pictorialism and photography of the American West.
B. television and video art.
C. the American Civil War.
D. World War I.
E. engineering and machinery.

Question 2

________ was a photographer who became dissatisfied with pictorialism and promoted the idea that photography should be true to its own nature rather than trying to imitate painting.

A. Henry Peach Robinson
B. Joseph Nicphore Nipce
C. Alfred Steiglitz
D. Julia Margaret Cameron
E. Thomas Ruff

af · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D
The Dadaist movement, which was formed as a reaction to the unprecedented slaughter of WWI, refused to make sense in traditional ways, creating anti-art.

Answer to Question 2

C
The type of photography Stieglitz championed came to be known as pure or straight photography.