DADA + BERLIN DADA

Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, and was the first anti-art movement in history. It employed tactics of shock, irony, protest, absurdity and violence. It was a revolt against Expressionism, which, though influenced by it, Heartfield saw as self-indulgent, claiming that it had lost its original importance as a result of the new political situation (inc. the Russian revolution of 1917). [1]

PHOTOMONTAGE

David Evans in The Grove Dictionary of Art defines it as a "Technique by which a composite photographic image is formed by combining images from separate photographic sources". Meanwhile Sergey Tretyakov remarks "It is important to note that a photomontage need not necessarily be a montage of photos. No: it can be photo and text, photo and color, photo and drawing". [5]