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Periods, Cultures, Styles > Dada
1924
1919
1915
1915–23
1960
1917/1964
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917/1964, glazed ceramic with black paint (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Marcel Duchamp
Christian Schad
Marcel Janco
Francis Picabia
George Grosz
Hannah Höch
Man Ray
Max Ernst
Raoul Hausmann
Salvador Dalí
Hans Bellmer
André Breton
Modern Art, Colonialism, Primitivism, and Indigenism: 1830–1950
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