Word: anti-art
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...feeling. While fascinating mechanically it remains barren of emotion. It rebels against expressionism just as "Pop" -- with its emphasis upon hygienic reality and arbitrary selection of subject matter -- repudiates abstraction. This opposition to the expression of emotion and to the aesthetic selection of subject material is fundamentally anti-art...
Twentieth-century painting has inspired reams of hostile criticism ever since the twentieth century began. Its various forms have been deprecated as childish and fraudulent, have been dismissed as non-art and anti-art. But Huntington Hartford must be the first person who has publicly and seriously connected modern painting with a communist plot...
...flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings-a pure, abstract nonobjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relation-less, disinterested painting-an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent, awaare of no thing but art (absolutely no anti-art...
...official title of the show opening this week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is "The Art of Assemblage." But the show's creator, William C. Seitz, explains that the fuller title would be "The Art, Non-Art and Anti-Art of Assemblage." For an assemblage is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but something beyond, a combining of all sorts of objects -knives and forks, torn bits of burlap, weathered wood, old boxes, smashed pieces of cars, dismembered dolls, an abandoned breakfast-to achieve all sorts of effects. The Modern Museum's exhibition...
...American mass culture is a kind of parody of high culture," he declared. MacDonald described art in a high culture as an expression of the artist and standards of discipline. "Commercial mass art is anti-art," he said, "because there is no real communication between the artist and the public...