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Societe Anonyme Inc
Société Anonyme, Inc. (or a Museum of Modern Art). An association founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier together with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray for the promotion of contemporary art in America by lectures, publications, travelling exhibitions, and the formation of a permanent collection.... Read more |
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Max Ernst
Max Ernst 1891-1976, German painter. After World War I, Ernst joined the Dada movement in Paris and then became a founder of surrealism . Apart from the medium of collage , for which he is well known, Ernst developed other devices to express his fantastic vision. In frottage he rubbed black... Read more |
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Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp , 1887-1968, French painter, brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half-brother of Jacques Villon . Duchamp is noted for his cubist-futurist painting Nude Descending a Staircase, depicting continuous action with a series of overlapping figures; it was the cause of great... Read more |
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Dorothea Tanning
Tanning, Dorothea (1910– ). American painter, sculptor, designer, and writer, born at Galesburg, Illinois. Except for two weeks of classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930 she was self-taught as an artist. In 1935 she settled in New York, where she worked at odd jobs (including being a... Read more |
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Salon de la Rose + Croix
Salon de la Rose + Croix. Art exhibition held annually in Paris from 1892 to 1897. It was organized by the Rosicrucians, an esoteric brotherhood (allegedly founded in the 15th century by one Christian Rosenkreuz) that in the late 19th century had close connections with the Symbolist movement. The... Read more |
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Armory Show
Armory Show international exhibition of modern art held in 1913 at the 69th-regiment armory in New York City. It was a sensational introduction of modern art into the United States. The estimated 1,600 works included paintings representing avant-garde movements in Europe. Duchamp's Nude Descending... Read more |
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Emilio Pettoruti
Pettoruti, Emilio (1892–1971). Argentine painter, born at La Plata. From 1913 to 1923 he studied and worked in Europe, taking part in the Futurist movement in Italy, and experimenting with the Cubism of Juan Gris, whom he met in Paris. After his return to Argentina in 1924 he had a great... Read more |
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John Olsen
Olsen, John (1928– ). One of Australia's leading abstract painters, born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He grew up and studied in Sydney, where he had his first one-man exhibition at the Macquarie Galleries in 1955. A year later he was one of the artists who took part in the Direction 1... Read more |
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Daffyd Jones, ed. Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde.(book...
...Jones, ed. Dada Culture: Critical...institutions of modern art this past year...histories of the movement as early as...Crisis and the Arts: The History...historicize the movement, the essays...constructive movements like ... |
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A modernist exhibition for a postmodern era; Societe Anonyme shook up the art...
...the progressive movement that rebelled...Yale University Art Gallery in 1941...challenged the art world to regard...the history of art as artists wanted...staid Beaux-Arts traditions. The...absurdist logic of the Dada ... |
 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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Luminously figurative; Rare glimpse at quirky West Coast movement.(ARTS &...
...Francisco art movement that began...West Coast art that's seen...influenced art by Wally Hedrick...of visual arts at the National...Endowment of the Arts from 1977...difficult for even art ... |
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Arts Guide
...12-2011 Arts GuideByline...selected art exhibitions worldwide...avant-garde movements of the early...nihilistic Dada movement with Marcel...landscapes. The exhibition brings more...Association of ... |
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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde, 1920-1950.
...account of Dada in America...logically out of Dada, as it did...where the two movements shared many...manifestation of Dada had largely...a standard art-historical...catalogue and exhibition by Jeffrey...appeared (a ... |
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Dreier and Duchamp, modernism's dynamic duo
...000-work art collection...names, this exhibition is both a...s labor movement. Dreier...through exhibitions, publications...opened an exhibition and a library...serious art and Dada insouciance...organized ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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A SURREALIST DREAM OF A SHOW
...Kaplan's art collecting focuses on a movement that prided...which make up a traveling exhibition, "Visionary...McMullen Museum of Art. In his introduction...buy graphic arts. No collector...paintings of an ... |
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Luminously Figurative: Rare Look at Quirky West Coast Movement.
...Francisco art movement that began...West Coast art that's seen...influenced art by Wally Hedrick...of visual arts at the National...Endowment of the Arts from 1977...difficult for even art ... |
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Gallery chronicle.(Richard Tuttle, Joe Zucker, Biala, Robert S. Neuman)
...traditions of art and anti-art...the anti-art movement in neo-Dada and the assemblages...stuck in the Dada gas fine. Some...wasn't enough Dada to go around...failed, New York exhibition. ... |
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Photo exhibit explores transitions in Central Europe between World Wars
...press. A new exhibition, "Foto: Modernity...the Milwaukee Art Museum, features...Photography _ a new art form at the...about modern art in central Europe...spent two years traveling the region looking...rebellion Dada ... |
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