| assemblage | a genre (or artwork) featuring the combination of three-dimensional objects; the sculptural counterpart of collage
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| assonance | a literary device involving similarity in sound between vowels followed by different consonants
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| atonality | in music, the absence of a tonal center or definitive key
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| avant-garde | (French, "vanguard") those who create or produce styles and ideas ahead of their time; also, an unconventional movement or style
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| biomorphic | having organic or protoplasmic form
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| cantilever | a beam or horizontal bracket that projects beyond its support
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| collage | (French, coller, "to paste") a composition created by pasting materials such as newspaper, wallpaper, photographs, or cloth on a flat surface or canvas
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| ferroconcrete | a cement building material reinforced by embedding wire or iron rods; also called "reinforced concrete"
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| mobile | a sculpture constructed so that its parts move by natural or mechanical means
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| montage | in art, music, or literature, a composite made by freely juxtaposing usually heterogeneous images; in cinema, the production of a rapid succession of images to present a stream of interconnected ideas (see also "photomontage")
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| photomontage | the combination of freely juxtaposed and usually heterogeneous photographic images (see also "montage")
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| serial technique | in music, a technique that involves the use of a particular series of notes, rhythms, and other elements that are repeated over and over throughout the piece
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| totalitarian | a political regime that imposes the will of the state upon the life and conduct of the individual
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| twelve-tone system | a kind of serial music that demands the use of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale (all twelve half-tones in an octave) in a particular order or series; no one note can be used again until all eleven have appeared
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