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

Derived 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

As antiart, Duchamp's work became a lunatic cornerstone for Dada, the movement that celebrated disorder, chance, anarchism?anything to reverse the stultified, rational societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever.

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