Nut Art en · NOUN
Etymology
Uncertain but generally credited to artist Roy De Forest in a 1972 Nut Art exhibition catalogue writing.
Meanings
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(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.
Although the movement didn't become a household word like Pop or Dada, Nut Art's penchant for blurring the lines between correspondence art, conceptual art, painting, and sculpture has made it a touchstone for a new generation of artists.
2017, Garth Johnson, “Lecture: Fluxing Funk: Nut Art”, in NCECA Journal, volume 38, page 131: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: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:
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