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art house, n. and a. orig. U.S.
Brit. |ˈɑːt haʊs|, U.S. |ˈɑrt ˌ(h)aʊs|
[‹ art n.1 + house n.1]
A. n.
1. A firm dealing in works of art; (also) a place where art is sold or exhibited, an art gallery.
1882Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 9 Nov. 4/3 The rotunda of the capitol will be occupied by four art houses, Tiffany, Sarony, the Gorham manufacturing company and the Japanese manufacturing company. 1944Loan Exhib. Wks. Thomas Eakins (M. Knoedler & Co.) 7 The famous Paris art house of Goupil. 2004Milwaukee Jrnl. Sentinel (Nexis) 11 Apr. 2 l, Make the rounds of more than 50 art houses as the Gallery Night gets under way tonight.
2. A cinema which specializes in films of artistic rather than commercial appeal, esp. foreign, experimental, or independent films. Hence: this style or genre of film. Cf. art n.1 Compounds 1d(c).
1925Los Angeles Times 6 Dec. iii. 34/6 Movie art house presents ‘Wandering Jew’ as first picture... The Movie Art Theatre..will present..pictures..of the highest artistic interest and values. 1949Variety 27 July 13/3 In the U.S...there are 57 theatres which are out-and-out art houses and 226 additional flickeries which play foreign-made product part of their time. 1988E. White Beautiful Room is Empty (1989) ii. 29 Tex ran a book and record store next to an art house showing movies near the Loop. 1995Empire May 50/4 Instead, it goes for arthouse all the way, with nifty lenswork, profound sounding narration and a strong theme. 2003Gay Times Feb. 95/1 Death In Venice.., adapted for the screen by the arch-duke of European art-house, Luchino Visconti.
B. adj. Designating, relating to, or characteristic of a cinema showing films of artistic rather than commercial appeal; designating or relating to film or (in extended use) other forms of cultural activity of this type.
1949Variety 27 July 13/3 Despite the dwindling grosses which have hit regular theaters, distribs serving the art-house operation claim that the field is generally a lush one. 1958K. Tynan Let. Dec. (1994) iii. 222 Metro would guarantee either general or art-house distribution in the U.S. 1972Times 28 Nov. 10/4 Chicago..is still largely unschooled in the foreign-language film, or even the less commercial, art-house type of English-speaking cinema. 1995J. Miller Voxpop v. 81, I have been to comic conventions and meetings of like minds, but they tend to be a bit cliquey and art-house. 1997Total Film Sept. 94/1 An accessible, quirky comedy that has all the vision and off-beat imagination of a foreign language arthouse film. But without the subtitles, or the polo-necked pretentiousness. |