The moderator also attacked critics who he said accuse the churches of being anti-art.

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The early 20th-century anti-art movement of Marcel Duchamp and Man-Ray rejected conventional forms, declared that art is dead and took a deliberately absurdist approach.

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Allen and Gehry met early on to talk about how to design an institution for an anti-institutional art form, and Gehry was hooked by Allen's excitement.

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He withdrew to a house in the south to write art history, dismissed anti-German activists with lectures about realism (not a quality that loomed large during any other period of his life) and maintained friendly relations with a ferocious collaborationist, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle.

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The Kremlin's other demands include access to the core of America's state-of-the-art missile defense systems - hit-to-kill technology that has a host of applications beyond anti-missile missions.

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Having grown up when photography was just being recognized as an art form, the French-born Cartier-Bresson was perhaps being an aesthetic contrarian, the anti-Stieglitz and un-Steichen, resisting the soft-focus tradition of those photographers that often conferred a romantic mist on their subjects.

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