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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">Funk</topic></authority><related type="broader"><topic>post-1945 fine arts styles and movements</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>Funk art</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Grotesque Art</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Phunck</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Sick Art</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>art, Funk</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Art, Grotesque</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>Art, Sick</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ First used to describe the work of a group of artists working in San Francisco in the late 1950s, and later used as the title of an exhibition held in Callifornia in 1967. The style is characterized by a preoccupation with sick, shocking, and sexually provocative imagery resulting in bizarre combinations of materials such as leather, steel, clay, vinyl, fur, and ceramics. ]]></note></mads>