nut art
nut art is the alternative letter-case form of Nut Art.
Noun capitalized: Nut Art
Nut Art (uncountable)
- A minor art movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s that was concerned with self-identification, sometimes involving the creation of a new persona, through fantastical or mythical elements.
- Nut Art in fact was a major art-historical invention, as it's ^([sic]) the first art movement to consist of fifteen people all working in different styles.1973, David Zack, “An Authentik and Historikal Discourse on the Phenomenon of Mail Art”, in Frank Jewett Mather, editor, Art in America, volume 61, page 51
- Closely allied to Nut Art was the Chicago Imagist school of painting, also known as the Hairy Who.1984, Michael Crane, Mary Stofflet, Correspondence Art: Source Book for the Network of International Postal Art Activity, Contemporary Arts Press, →ISBN, page 112
Forms of nut art
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Origin of nut art
Uncertain but generally credited to artist Roy De Forest in a 1972 Nut Art exhibition catalogue writing.
Questions about nut art
- What does nut art mean?
- Nut art means a minor art movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s that was concerned with self-identification, sometimes involving the creation of a new persona, through fantastical or mythical elements.
- What is nut art the alternative letter-case form of?
- Nut art is the alternative letter-case form of Nut Art.
- What part of speech is nut art?
- Nut art is a noun.
Words near nut art in the dictionary
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