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appropriation

Art history; General art history

As a term in art history and criticism refers to the more or less direct taking over into a work of art of a real object or even an existing work of art. The practice can be tracked back to the ...

anti-art

Art history; General art history

Refers to art that challenges the existing accepted definitions of art. It is generally agreed to have been coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he made his first readymades, which are still ...

Meaning cannibalism, as an art term it is associated with the 1960s Brazilian art movement Tropicália. Artists Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Rogério Duarte and Antonio Dias used anthropophagia in the ...

animation

Art history; General art history

Animation is the rapid display of sequences of static imagery in such a way as to create the illusion of movement. The history of animation dates back to early Chinese shadow lanterns and the optical ...

Angry Penguins

Art history; General art history

Title of Australian modernist literary journal founded 1940 at University of Adelaide by four poets: DB Kerr, MH Harris, PG Pfeiffer, G Dutton. At this time the University of Adelaide was a focus of ...

analytical cubism

Art history; General art history

In an attempt to classify the revolutionary experiments made by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris when they were exponents of Cubism, historians have tended to divide Cubism into two ...

American Social Realist photography

Art history; General art history

During America's Great Depression of the 1930s and 1940s, photographers were employed by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to document the rural poverty and exploitation of sharecroppers and ...