Q 26.11.2002

use of the term anti-art

saul ostrow

I was wondering if anyone had a citation for the earliest use of the term
anti-art.

In working on some material that has to do with the question of how the
political today seeks it's resolution within the cultural sphere -- I found
that what I had assumed about the term anti-art , non-art , etc. having come
from the DaDa-ist was inaccurate -- While the term came to be associated
with DaDa, this came much later, for it does not play a significant role in
the DaDa-ist's rhetoric. They instead tend to emphasize that they are making
a new art. This lead me to believe that perhaps the term had some other
derivation. It was suggested that it might have been used by academican
critics to attack the new art and rather than a term that originates with
any artistic program.

Thank you

Saul Ostrow
Dept. of Art and Art History
University of Connecticut

Quellennachweis:
Q: use of the term anti-art. In: ArtHist.net, 26.11.2002. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/25343>.

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