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deattribution

noun

Etymology

From deattribute + -ion.

  1. borrowed from attributus
  2. prefixed as deattribute — “de + attribute”
  3. suffixed as deattribution — “deattribute + ion”

Definitions

  1. Discontinuance of attributing a work of art or literature, etc. to a particular creator,…

    Discontinuance of attributing a work of art or literature, etc. to a particular creator, especially in a case where a work is reassigned from a prominent creator to a lesser or unknown creator.

    • Deattribution of Rembrandt paintings has been going on among art historians for decades, constantly winnowing a corpus inflated by the 17th- and 18th-century practice of regarding many works simply in Rembrandt's style as "by the master."
    • Attributions, deattributions, and reattributions are often more easily made after reviewing x-radiographs, infrared reflectograms, dendrochronological data, and pigment analyses.
    • [I]n the world of art, authors are always dying off. Works that were previously assigned to a known name, works that were among the most famous, find themselves stranded in anonymity. The process is called de-attribution.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deattribution. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA