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Stuckism

/ ˈstʌkɪsm /

noun

  1. a British art movement, founded in 1999 by Billy Childish (born 1959) and Charles Thomson (born 1953) to advance new figurative painting (as opposed to conceptual art)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Word Forms

  • Stuckist noun
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Example Sentences

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That sort of clash is more fittingly applied to an art movement like the one known in Britain as Stuckism, which elevates often untutored figurative expression above the dominance of academic Conceptual art.

If they weren't so perverse in their arguments, I would even say stuckism's time has come.

Stuckism, for better or worse, has entered our language.

Not only that but the title of the exhibition is a quote from an attack on stuckism that I published here.

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