non-art

American  

[non-ahrt] / nɒnˈɑrt /

noun

1. antiart.

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Etymology

Origin of non-art

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Since “New Eelam” debuted, a handful of non-art, unironic flexible living brands have bloomed.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2022

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

She is an expert in short sharp stories, intimate revelations extracted with or without the subject’s consent, and her pieces speak to non-art audiences, too.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2017

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