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Laboratoire Agit’Art

Founded in Dakar in 1974, Laboratoire Agit’Art was a revolutionary and subversive art collective that sought to combine traditional African …

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Land art

Land art or earth art is art that is made directly in the landscape, sculpting the land itself into earthworks …

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Landscape

Landscape is one of the principal types or genres of subject in Western art

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Lightbox

A lightbox is a box with a translucent white surface fitted with an internal light source, commonly a fluorescent tube …

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Linocut

A linocut is a relief print produced in a manner similar to a woodcut but that uses linoleum as the …

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Lithography

Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked …

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Live art

The term live art refers to performances or events undertaken or staged by an artist or a group of artists …

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London Group

The London group was an exhibiting group founded in 1913 to organise modern art exhibitions in Britain

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Luminism

Luminism means roughly, the painting of light and is applied specifically to the American landscape painters of the Hudson River …

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