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

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 experimented with lead, a non-art material that he learned about from the composer Philip Glass, who moonlighted as a plumber.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 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