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A visitor to the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition explores the Merzbau construction evoking Kurt Schwitters’ world of “Merz,” a collage structure he created in his home from detritus of modern life such as bus tickets and packaging. Passing through the construction, visitors hear an excerpt of his sound poem, “Ursonate.” © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.
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Marcel Duchamp’s readymade, Fountain, is installed on a door jamb of the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition, as it was originally hung in Duchamp’s New York studio. Seen in the background are Max Ernst’s Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale and At the Rendezvous of Friends. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.
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John Heartfield and Rudolf Schlicter’s scandalous Prussian Archangel looms over other works in an installation inspired by historical photographs of Berlin’s First International Dada Fair in the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.

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Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition explore the installation of Marcel Duchamp’s readymades as they were originally installed in his studio. Seen here are: (l-r) In Advance of the Broken Arm, Bicycle Wheel, Hat Rack, Trap, and Bottlerack. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.

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Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition explore Marcel Duchamp’s Rotary Demisphere and the related Disks Bearing Spirals. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.

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Francis Picabia’s The Animal Tamer is seen through the spinning blades of Marcel Duchamp’s Rotary Glass Plates in the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.

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Sophie Taeuber’s 12 playful machine-like marionettes are enclosed in the Zurich section of the National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition with abstract reliefs and photographs by fellow Dadaist Christian Schad. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.

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The National Gallery of Art’s Dada exhibition is advertised at the entrance to the East Building using only a reproduction of Marcel Duchamp’s pivotal L.H.O.O.Q. without the exhibition’s title or dates. © 2006 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Photo by Rob Shelley.