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  2. Anti-art - Wikipedia

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    Anti-art can take the form of art or not. [5] [6] It is posited that anti-art need not even take the form of art, in order to embody its function as anti-art. This point is disputed. Some of the forms of anti-art which are art strive to reveal the conventional limits of art by expanding its properties. [19]

  3. List of common misconceptions about arts and culture

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    Chinese word for "crisis" The Chinese word for "crisis" (危机) is not composed of the symbols for "danger" and "opportunity"; the first does represent danger, but the second instead means "inflection point" (the original meaning of the word "crisis"). [96] [97] The misconception was popularized mainly by campaign speeches by John F. Kennedy. [96]

  4. Cultural appropriation - Wikipedia

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    It is argued that such practices maintain the power relationship between the dominant culture and the indigenous culture and can be seen as a form of cultural imperialism. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] Such practices may be seen as particularly harmful in schools and universities that have a stated purpose of promoting ethnic diversity and inclusion. [ 130 ]

  5. Wikipedia:Contents/Culture and the arts - Wikipedia

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    Performing arts – those forms of art that use the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium. Acting – is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode. Dance – art form of movement of ...

  6. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop systems. In Europe, the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists, and today most of the people who are pursuing a career in the arts train in art schools at tertiary levels.

  7. Classificatory disputes about art - Wikipedia

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    Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet. Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.

  8. Low culture - Wikipedia

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    Low culture is content to depict traditional working class values winning out over the temptation to give in to conflicting impulses and behavior patterns. [9] In other words, low culture is often associated with media that presents smaller-scale or individual experiences that are easier for the general public to identify with.

  9. Culture - Wikipedia

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    Culture is considered a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies. Cultural universals are found in all human societies. These include expressive forms like art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies like tool usage, cooking, shelter, and clothing.