antiart

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adjective

Opposed to art, or to the concept of fine art

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Meanings

adjectiveantiart (comparative more antiart, superlative most antiart)

comparative more antiart · superlative most antiart

  1. Opposed to art, or to the concept of fine art

    Some saw them, and other Rauschenberg works, as neo-Dada, antiart gestures, for example.

    1992 March 27, Fred Camper, “The Unordered Universe”, in Chicago Reader
nounantiart (uncountable)
  1. uncountableartArt created in opposition to the concept of art

    The weakness exists within culture itself, in the form of certain desires, dreams, and deliriums called up by "entertainment," mass culture, by certain types of antiart.

    1989 June 16, Gary Kamiya, “Reading: Children of the Void”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

From anti- + art.

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Translations

Polish antysztuka
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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

intrataantirat
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APA

antiart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiart

MLA

“antiart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiart. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antiart,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antiart.

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