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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive