Anti-art

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Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

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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