The Dadaists were a vociferous crew relishing wild shock tactics in art and life.

ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters

The Swiss Taeuber-Arp and her husband, Hans Arp, from Alsace, were Dadaists in Zurich during the First World War.

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And Marcel Duchamp and other Dadaists had elevated the banal objects of everyday life to art back in the 1920s.

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French poet Arthur Rimbaud is a hero, but she has also found inspiration in Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Claude Debussy, Herman Hesse, the Dadaists, William Blake and Jackson Pollock.

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Back further in fashion history, Zandra Rhodes and Celia Birtwell designed book covers for Wuthering Heights, and Schiaparelli herself professed inspiration from the poetry and art of the Dadaists.

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In Paris the rudiments of what became pop art were there for the taking: the Dadaists had rejected tradition, Picasso had experimented with collage, the Surrealists pushed imagination to its limits.

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Schwitters made lively connections across Europe with Dadaists and later with Constructivists (whose architectonic art, which much influenced his Hanover Merzbau, is much cooler and more rational than Dada), promoting their work in his Merz magazines.

ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters