A visual record of activist art history from Dada to Conceptual to Street Art.

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6. Fiona Hall An installation called ‘Tender’ was made by the artist mimicking a variety of actual nests using American dollar bills, raising questions about the value of profit over wildness and diversity.

12. Surrealism Developed out of Dada in the 1920’s in Paris, artists and writers expressed the Surrealist philosophy or manifesto. Art as protest was political and experimental. IMAGE: Le Violon d’Ingres by Man Ray

13. Man Ray Indestructible Object 1923, is an assisted readymade.

14. LHOOQ Marcel Duchamp painted a moustache on the Mona Lisa in 1919, poking fun at the world’s most famous painting.

15. Marcel Duchamp Readymade art was revolutionary in the early 20 th century. Bicycle Wheel was assembled in 1913.

19. Hugo Ball Writer of the dada manifesto performs a cut-up poem.