non-art
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of non-art
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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In undoing expectations of what art should look like, of how it should tidy up the world, the work eats through definitions of art and non-art like a rat burrowing through museum insulation.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2019
He embraced Marcel Duchamp’s gaming of boundaries between art and non-art, though with a programmatic zeal that lacked the Frenchman’s witty philosophy of indifference—an often emulated but truly inimitable way of caring about not caring.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
To me, a non-art critic, his work is fantastic: it feels contemporary, with a chaotic, musical sensibility.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2017
“Parade” mixed Modernist high art with low art and non-art, Cubism with aspects of street life, the noises of a typewriter, a foghorn, a pistol and more.
From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
If we had an absolute method for distinguishing art from non-art, it would not necessarily enable us to measure quality.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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