LITIGATION - a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights.
NEO-CLASSICAL - revival in the 18th and 19th centuries in architecture and art, especially in the decorative arts, characterized by order, symmetry, and simplicity of style.
AVANTE-GARDE - A group active in the invention and application of new techniques in a given field, especially in the arts.
DIDACTIC - In the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way
CONCEPTUAL - Of, relating to, or based on mental concepts
AGITPROP - Political (originally communist) propaganda, esp. in art or literature
LITHOGRAPHER - A printing process in which the image to be printed is rendered on a flat surface, as on sheet zinc or aluminum, and treated to retain ink while the nonimage areas are treated to repel ink.
CUBIST ART - non-objective school of painting and sculpture developed in Paris in the early 20th century, characterized by the reduction and fragmentation of natural forms into abstract, often geometric structures usually rendered as a set of discrete planes.
DE STIJL - A school of art originating in the Netherlands in 1917 and characterized by the use of rectangular shapes and primary colors.
BAUHAUS - A school of design established by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, known for its designs of objects based on functionalism and simplicity
