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Encyclopedia > Plop art

Plop art is a derogatory term for public art sculptures made for corporate office plazas, the spaces in front of government buildings, and other public areas, including parks. The term implies that the work is considered unattractive, inappropriate to the location, or both. The term is a pun on pop art. Of similar use is the phrase "the turd on the plaza". Public art is art that is exposed in a public space, either an outdoor location or in a publicly accessible building. ... Sculpture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Plaza is a Spanish word related to field which describes an open urban public space, such as a city square. ... A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. ... Pop art was an artistic movement that emerged in the late 1950s in England and the United States. ...


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Installation art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (265 words)
Installation art is art that, through the use of sculptural materials and other media, seeks to modify the way we experience a particular space.
It is a genre of Western contemporary art which came to prominence in the 1970s.
The intention of the artist is paramount in much later installation art whose roots lie in the conceptual art of the 1960s.
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