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Dadaists : followers of Dadaism, a nihilistic movement in arts in Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Paris, & New York in early 20th century. The title was adopted at Zurich during one of the meetings held in 1916 by a group of artists & war resisters, including the poet Tristan Tzara. Dadaism was considered appropriate for their anti-aesthetic creations & protest activities, which were engendered by disgust for bourgeois values & despair over World War I. It was a doctrine of utter formlessness where meaningless words or syllables were used, as in the speech of a small child.