Dictionary definition: ‘novelty art'

Article: Themed designs on plates were more than just novelty ...
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  June 2, 2007 ;     549 words ... ... designs on everyday items like plates, etc. They were first introduced circa 1890 and were marketed at the time as "novelty art wares", which were "made to adorn, yet serve some useful purpose" and were an immediate hit. In 1901, Charles ...

Article: Starting out.(painting)
New Criterion;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... painting that could elicit the response I experienced looking at great paintings. To engage in primary structures of novelty art was, for me, a cop-out. Novelty inventions and gimmicks can have fashion and style but have much less voltage than ...

Article: Beautiful Loser: Op Art Revisited
Artforum;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... would probably have passively sided with Clement Greenberg, who dismissed Op as yet another misshapen species of "Novelty art" or "Good Design"-memorable put-downs that he also directed at most art of the '60s, whether Pop or Minimalism ...

Article: STAMP TO IT!/It's more than a hobby - it's art
The Gazette;  June 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... hobbyists than artists, but an upcoming exhibit at The Bridge Gallery just may dispel that notion. "I think it's novelty art," says show organizer Michael Cellan, who made a stamp of a crumpled paper airplane for the show. The Bridge Gallery ...

Article: ArtSelect.Com Thinks Outside the Frame, Introduces PostersEtc.Com ...
Real Estate Weekly News;  September 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... graphics and content, the new site offers over 50,000 images in all categories, from Music, TV and Movie posters to Novelty Art, Black & White Photography and Vintage Art. PostersEtc.com also has a wide range of art prints in all art ...

Article: Don't bring your pencils Don't bring your pencils; (What the ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Camberwell Green. Art schools now prefer to bully students into making bad video films and producing all manner of useless novelty art. Earlier this year Ivan Massow, chairman of the Institute of Contemporary Art, accurately condemned it as conceptual ...

Article: The return of Op: with two major survey shows on Op art running ...
Artforum International;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... would probably have passively sided with Clement Greenberg, who dismissed Op as yet another misshapen species of "Novelty art" or "Good Design"--memorable put-downs that he also directed at most art of the '60s, whether Pop or Minimalism ...