• Trophaeal

    Full definition of trophaeal

    Adjective

    trophaeal

    1. Alternative spelling of en
      • 2000: Deborah Chasman and Edna Chiang eds., Drawing Us In: How We Experience Visual Art, page 94 (Beacon Press; , 9780807066065)I want to conclude with an observation based on a contrast between the art of the First Johannesburg Biennale and the trophaeal art that almost concurrently went on display at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg — art the Russian troops had taken away from a Germany defeated as an emblem of that defeat.
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