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anti-artIn the visual arts, work that is exhibited in a conventional context but makes fun of serious art or challenges the nature of art; it is characteristic of Dada. Marcel Duchamp is credited with introducing the term around 1914, and its spirit is summed up in his attempt to exhibit a urinal (Fountain 1917). The term is also used to describe other intentionally provocative art forms, for example, nonsense poetry. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Silverstein's anti-art stance places him squarely in the Dadaist tradition. As he traces this history beyond the Reformation divorce between art and the church, Dyrness attempts to show that not all the Reformers were completely anti-art, and that even those that seemed to be most antagonistic to the arts nonetheless placed some value on the visual. And from two-time acting nominee Sean Penn, a vocal critic of anything he considers anti-art in the film industry: ``It's valuable like a commercial is valuable, if (Academy Awards) get people into theaters to see movies. |
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