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Cubism and the development of collage and abstract art would inform the movement's detachment from the constraints of reality and convention. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 to characterize works which challenge accepted definitions of art. The roots of Dada lay in pre-war avant-garde. Still others speculate that the word might have been chosen to evoke a similar meaning (or no meaning at all) in any language, reflecting the movement's internationalism. Others note that it suggests the first words of a child, evoking a childishness and absurdity that appealed to the group. There is no consensus on the origin of the movement's name a common story is that the Austrian artist Richard Huelsenbeck plunged a knife at random into a dictionary, where it landed on "dada", a colloquial French term for a hobby horse. Dadaist artists expressed their discontent with violence, war, and nationalism, and maintained political affinities with the radical left. The art of the movement spanned visual, literary, and sound media, including collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. Developed in reaction to World War I, the Dada movement consisted of artists who rejected the logic, reason, and aestheticism of modern capitalist society, instead expressing nonsense, irrationality, and anti-bourgeois protest in their works. Dada (/ˈdɑːdɑː/) or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century, with early centers in Zürich, Switzerland at the Cabaret Voltaire (circa 1916) New York Dada began circa 1915, and after 1920 Dada flourished in Paris.