No!art positioned itself as post-apocalyptic, beyond art itself.

Evidence

The work was brutally childish, aggressively artless, and far more primitive than Dine’s House or even Oldenburg’s Street. Repeatedly evoking nuclear war, Fisher’s brief mission statement might have been written for Guns of the Trees. It began by asserting that “Art has ended. The world and being [sic] collapsed” and asking, “Who are you?” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 183

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames what ‘No!art’ meant — art declared dead amid nuclear annihilation imagery.