Word: antiart
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...those last two words that have rattled the foundation of the 150-year-old school for women. While Keene works, controversy swirls. Two professors got into a shouting match over the exhibit, and Keene has been called everything from a commercial hack to an antiart subversive...
...James Booth) appears wearing a jacket with shamrocks on it, spouts limerick after limerick and intermittently becomes Lady Bracknell. Tzara (Tim Curry) comes on with a pair of scissors, slices up a Shakespeare sonnet, dumps the lines into a top hat, and extrapolates them as gibberish to show that antiart reigns supreme. In the Wildean substructure of Travesties, Tzara doubles as John Worthing (Earnest in town-Jack in the country). Carr once again plays his friend Algy. Lenin (Harry Towb) has no role in Earnest. Isolatedly aloof, he delivers a stinging diatribe on the duties of an artist...
...antiart, Duchamp's work became a lunatic cornerstone for Dada, the movement that celebrated disorder, chance, anarchism−anything to reverse the stultified, rational societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever. He became a fixture of the New York art scene, painted on glass, composed musical pieces by making a random choice of notes, and dropped pieces of string, then froze them to a board with a glue...
...twined Rainy Taxi, from the 1938 exposition, faithfully copied right down to the snails that crawl on the faces of the sopping, green-lit mannequins inside. Otherwise, dulcet decorum is preserved because, as former Sarah Lawrence Professor Rubin puts it: "While the Dadaists use the term antiart to deny modern art, in retrospect their work takes its place in that tradition, enriching more than denying...
...allow himself an emotion. Miranda tries to teach him something about art and music, but with typical self-pity he says he cannot appreciate them because he was not brought up with her advantages. Gradually it dawns on Miranda that Clegg is a modern version of Caliban-"anti-life, antiart, anti-everything." And she is his possession: "I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, always the same, always beautiful. My being alive and changing and having...