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Art history
Record of past mediums or works of art throughout history.
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kitchen sink art
Art history; General art history
Term originally used as the title of an article by the critic David Sylvester in the December 1954 issue of the journal Encounter. The article discussed the work of the realist ...
kitsch
Art history; General art history
Kitsch is the German word for trash. Sometime in the 1920s it came into use in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms of popular and commercial ...
kunsthalle
Art history; General art history
A German term for a public art space that mounts temporary exhibitions. In Germany they are often supported by the local Kunstverein, or art association. It has come to be used ...
lacanian
Art history; General art history
Referring to the thought of the prominent French psychoanalyst and theorist Jacques Lacan, who postulated a distinction between experience that is 'imaginary'—associated with the ...
land art
Art history; General art history
Also known as Earth art. It can be seen as part of the wider Conceptual art movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Land artists began working directly in the landscape, sculpting it ...
landscape
Art history; General art history
One of the principal types or genres of Western art. However, the appreciation of nature for its own sake and its choice as a specific subject for art is a relatively recent ...
lettrisme
Art history; General art history
Founded by the Romanian-born artist Isidore Isou in the mid 1940s, this French avant-garde movement was associated with the Situationist branch of the Anarchist family and became ...
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