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Bricolage: In the practical arts and the fine arts, bricolage (French for "DIY" or "do-it-yourself projects from home") is the construction or creation of a word from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process.

Video Art: Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data.

Post modernism: A late 20th - century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism, which represents a departure from modernism and is characterized by the self - conscious use of earlier styles and conventions, a mixing of different artistic styles and media, and a distrust of theories.

Dadaism: A movement in art and literature based on deliberate irrationality and negation of traditional artistic values; also: the art and literature produced by this movement.

Performance Art: An art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance.

Poetry: Work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

Tender cruelty: A paradoxical relation to the subject, i.e. analytic yet involved, unemotional but still engaged. A descriptive term coined by Lincoln Kirstein when witnessing Walker Evan's work.