artmaking

plural artmakings

1. uncountableusuallyThe production of art.

   Art we do not need; artmaking should be made so difficult an occupation that only the most dedicated practitioners would persist.

   1991 November 29, Harold Henderson, quoting Quentin Crisp, “The City File”, in Chicago Reader

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   THE artist Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 at age 35, loved to cook, but he could never quite unbraid his culinary passions from those of artmaking, with sometimes bizarre dinner party results.

   2007 February 21, Randy Kennedy, “When Meals Played the Muse”, in New York Times