antiart

American  

[an-tee-ahrt, an-tahy-] / ˈæn tiˌɑrt, ˈæn taɪ- /

noun

1. art, as dada, based on total rejection of established artistic practices and aesthetic values in favor of those that are arbitrary, shocking, and meaningless.

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Other Word Forms

• antiartist noun

Etymology

Origin of antiart

First recorded in 1940–45; anti- + art ¹

Example Sentences

Does A.I. have any place in club music today, or is that antiart?

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

"The theater belongs not to the great but to the brash. acting is not for gentlemen, or bureaucratic-academics. what they do is antiart," he wrote in one tweet.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2013

Two professors got into a shouting match over the exhibit, and Keene has been called everything from a commercial hack to an antiart subversive.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gradually it dawns on Miranda that Clegg is a modern version of Caliban�"anti-life, antiart, anti-everything."

From Time Magazine Archive

In the postwar years of angry anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics.

From Time Magazine Archive