Anti-art is the definition of a
work which may be exhibited or delivered in a conventional context but makes fun of serious
art or challenges the nature of art. A work such as
Marcel Duchamp's
Fountain of 1917 is a prime example of anti-art. It is a
Dadaist work of art. Much of
Dadaism is associated with the quality of being anti-art. While the
Dada movement per se was generally confined to Western Europe in the early 1900s, anti-art has a wider scope.Since then various
avant-garde art movements have a position on anti-art and the term is also used to describe other intentionally provocative art forms, such as
nonsense verse.
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