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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Art, specifically Dada, that rejects traditional art forms and theories.
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- noun
Art that is usuallyexhibited anddelivered in aconventional context but that makes fun of serious art or the artisticestablishment orchallenges the nature of art.
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Examples
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But if art these days is like a teenager -- sarcastic, ungrateful, and existentially conflicted -- staging anti-art stunts as your art no longer makes you radical in what is now a competitive and often vacuous theater of ironic one-upping.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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But if art these days is like a teenager -- sarcastic, ungrateful, and existentially conflicted -- staging anti-art stunts as your art no longer makes you radical in what is now a competitive and often vacuous theater of ironic one-upping.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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New York was by this time home to a community of Japanese artists, but Kusama had avoided the associations many of her compatriots formed with groups such as the anti-art happening bunch in the neo-Dada group Fluxus.
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But if art these days is like a teenager -- sarcastic, ungrateful, and existentially conflicted -- staging anti-art stunts as your art no longer makes you radical in what is now a competitive and often vacuous theater of ironic one-upping.
Selby Drummond: Artists Anonymous: The Irresistible Earnestness of the Bruce High Quality Foundation Selby Drummond 2011
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Though he has been acclaimed by critics such as Simon Schama, who called him "incapable of producing trivia", and was the first artist since Georges Braque in 1953 to make a work to go permanently on show at the Louvre, Kiefer regards himself as underground compared with artists like Damien Hirst, who he says makes "anti-art".
Anselm Kiefer: 'art is difficult, it's not entertainment' 2011
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New York was by this time home to a community of Japanese artists, but Kusama had avoided the associations many of her compatriots formed with groups such as the anti-art happening bunch in the neo-Dada group Fluxus.
Yayoi Kusama 2009
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Not only for how or what what they wrote, but also because they wrote about an interweaving, overlapping knot of things that mattered to me: poetry, resurgent Londophilia, anti-art polemics, post-Trotskyist politics, popular culture and the Situationist International.
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The Darwinian/biological analysis of art itself brings along its own anti-art baggage, and finally the appeal to Science as the all-encompassing context in which art is to be understood is no more helpful to art than the appeal to History or to Culture.
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Not only for how or what what they wrote, but also because they wrote about an interweaving, overlapping knot of things that mattered to me: poetry, resurgent Londophilia, anti-art polemics, post-Trotskyist politics, popular culture and the Situationist International.
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But he's at pains to point out that this "anti-art" is itself part of art.
Anselm Kiefer: 'art is difficult, it's not entertainment' 2011
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