An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract ExpressionismThe term Neo Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly interests of the then dominant movement, Abstract Expressionism. Neo Dada quickly became the word of choice in the early 1960s to designate experimental art, including assemblage, performance, Pop art, and nascent forms of minimal and conceptual