anonymous sculpture

noun

Any industrial structure whose architecture is thought to have unintended artistic qualities.

OriginGerman Anonyme Skulpturen →
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Meanings

nounanonymous sculpture (countable and uncountable, plural anonymous sculptures)

plural anonymous sculptures

  1. countableuncountableartAny industrial structure whose architecture is thought to have unintended artistic qualities.

Origin

  1. GermanAnonyme Skulpturen
  2. Englishanonymous sculpture

Calque of German Anonyme Skulpturen; the term was used by Bernd and Hilla Becher, who photographed such structures.

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