It certainly wasn't applied to dramatic art.

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'Art Deco' became a term that was later applied to it.

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But the art-censors at Shanghai's cultural bureau applied the stoppers.

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Prior art encompasses all knowledge disclosed to the public before the patent is applied for.

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The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.

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The conversation gave Vaught an idea: to create an art exhibit featuring more than 200 skateboard "decks" -- the board where the artwork is applied -- from eight artists.

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