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DeWitt Wallace
DeWitt Wallace DeWitt Wallace (1889-1981), American publisher, was the founder of Reader's Digest, one of the world's largest-selling magazines. DeWitt Wallace was born on November 12, 1889, in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his father was on the faculty (and later president) of Macalester... Read more |
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conceptual art
conceptual art art movement that began in the 1960s and stresses the artist's concept rather than the art object itself. Growing out of minimalism , conceptual art turned the artist's thoughts and ideas themselves into the primary artistic medium, appealing to the spectator's intellect instead of... Read more |
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contemporary art
contemporary art the art of the late 20th cent. and early 21st cent., both an outgrowth and a rejection of modern art . As the force and vigor of abstract expressionism diminished, new artistic movements and styles arose during the 1960s and 70s to challenge and displace modernism in painting,... Read more |
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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon The American fashion photographer Richard Avedon (born 1923) was best known for his probing portraits that go beyond recording likenesses to explore the identity of society and to reflect dreams and desires. Richard Avedon was born in New York City on May 15, 1923. Educated in... Read more |
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Wilson Bigaud
Bigaud, Wilson (1931– ). Haitian naive painter, born into a poor family in Port-au-Prince. He was encouraged by Hector Hyppolyte, who was a neighbour, and in 1946 he began studying at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince; this had been established two years earlier by the American teacher ... Read more |
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Sol LeWitt
Sol LeWitt , 1928-2007, American artist, b. Hartford, Conn. LeWitt, who came into prominence in the 1960s, termed his work conceptual art , emphasizing that the idea or concept that animates each work is its most important aspect. He is probably the artist most often linked with the conceptual art... Read more |
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Tony Scott
Scott, Tony 1944- (Anthony Scott)PERSONALFull name, Anthony D. L. Scott; born June 21, 1944, in North Shields, Northumberland (some sources cite Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Stockton-on-Tees), England; son of Elizabeth Jean Scott; father, a dock worker; brother of Ridley Scott (a film director and studio... Read more |
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Barnes Foundation
Barnes Foundation museum in Merion, Pa. Founded in 1922, it houses the impressive art collection amassed by Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872-1951, a wealthy Philadelphia physician, patent-medicine inventor, and pharmaceutical manufacturer. Introduced to art by a schoolmate, the painter William ... Read more |
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Robert Blackburn
Blackburn, Robert December 10, 1920April 21, 2003 The lithographer and teacher Robert Hamilton Blackburn was born to Jamaican parents in Summit, New Jersey, in 1920 and moved to Harlem in 1926. He took art classes at P.S. 139 in Harlem under the instruction of Works Project Administration... Read more |
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