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non-art [non- 2 and 2 b.] Something that is not art; spec. a form of art which avoids artifice or which rejects conventional modes and methods.
1936L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 49 It [sc. Tropic of Cancer] bore out a few theories about writing that I had been trying to formulate. The art of non-art... Real art being absolutely devoid of ‘artifice’, in the literary sense. 1949Horizon XIX. 379 The great artists of the past..are not replaced by others because we are moving into a world of non-art. 1958New Statesman 20 Sept. 377/1 The great illusion of current non-art lies in the belief that numerous meanings can be expressed without searching. 1965Zigrosser & Gaehde Guide Coll. Orig. Prints iii. 35 The distinction..between art (as we know it now) and non-art might lose its force. 1971R. A. Carter Manhattan Primitive (1972) xxii. 215 You haven't transformed it into art—you've just set it down. It's non-art, Bess. Anti-art. |