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  2. Prior art - Wikipedia

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    Prior art (also known as state of the art [1] or background art [2]) is a concept in patent law used to determine the patentability of an invention, in particular whether an invention meets the novelty and the inventive step or non-obviousness criteria for patentability.

  3. Land art - Wikipedia

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    Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, Utah, in mid-April 2005 Time Landscape by Alan Sonfist, at LaGuardia and Houston Streets in Manhattan, 1965-present. Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, [1] largely associated with Great Britain and the United States [2] [3] [4] but that also ...

  4. Outsider art - Wikipedia

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    It is an English equivalent for art brut ... Dubuffet's original definition pertains strictly to the ‘raw art’ created by the autodidactic and shunned fringes of ...

  5. Conceptual art - Wikipedia

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    Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917. Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Robert Rauschenberg, Portrait of Iris Clert 1961 Art & Language, Art-Language Vol. 3 Nr. 1, 1974. Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work are prioritized equally to or more than traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns.

  6. Street art - Wikipedia

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    Germany's Berlin Wall (shown 1986) was a target of artists during its existence (1961–1989).. Street art is a form of artwork that is displayed in public on surrounding buildings, on streets, trains and other publicly viewed surfaces.

  7. Digital art - Wikipedia

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    Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process.

  8. Theory of art - Wikipedia

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    A theory of art is intended to contrast with a definition of art. Traditionally, definitions are composed of necessary and sufficient conditions, and a single counterexample overthrows such a definition. Theorizing about art, on the other hand, is analogous to a theory of a natural phenomenon like gravity.

  9. Public art - Wikipedia

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    The Spire of Dublin. Public art is art in any media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre [1] with its own professional and critical discourse.