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Destructive Art

Scope note

Use for art done around the early 1960s in which the process of destruction of objects or materials within the work is regarded as the work; usually associated theoretically with artists' concerns about social violence.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000112718

Broader Terms used

Process art

Created

12yrs ago

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