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Art Autre
Art Autre. A term coined by the French critic Michel Tapié (1909–87) in his book Un Art autre (1952) to describe a type of art that he regarded as appropriate to the turbulent mood in France in the post-war period—an art that worked through ‘paroxysm, magic, total... Read more |
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pop art
pop art a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism . British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships.... Read more |
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Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg 1909-94, American art critic, b. New York City. Greenberg's criticism was primarily concerned with art produced after abstract expressionism . This art, now known as color-field painting , he termed post-painterly abstraction, reflecting Heinrich Wölfflin's theory that... Read more |
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Susan Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg Bringing a sense of personal, narrative imagery to an otherwise abstract style of painting, artist Susan Rothenberg (born 1945) rose to a place of prominence on the New York art scene in the 1970s, and has continued to gain critical acclaim for her work in the decades since. ... Read more |
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New Generation
New Generation. The title of four exhibitions, sponsored by the Peter Stuyvesant [tobacco company] Foundation, held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1968, with the aim of introducing young British painters and sculptors to the public. Op and Pop art were well... Read more |
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Persian art and architecture
Persian art and architecture works of art and structures produced in the region of Asia traditionally known as Persia and now called Iran. Bounded by fierce mountains and deserts, the high plateau of Iran has seen the flow of many migrations and the development of many cultures, all of which have... Read more |
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Islamic art and architecture
Islamic art and architecture works of art and architecture created in countries where Islam has been dominant and embodying Muslim precepts in its themes. Background In the century after the death (AD 632) of the prophet Muhammad, his Arab followers spread his teachings through Egypt and N Africa,... Read more |
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Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr
Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. 1902-81, American art historian, b. Detroit. Barr taught art history at several colleges and was the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. He organized more than 100 museum exhibitions and wrote a number of standard art history texts. These include ... Read more |
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Art Informel
Art Informel. Term coined by the French critic Michel Tapié to describe a type of spontaneous abstract painting popular among European artists in the 1940s and 1950s, roughly equivalent to Abstract Expressionism in the USA. Tapié popularized the term in his book Un Art autre (1952), and... Read more |
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Putting the World in a Box: Joseph Cornell's Inside Stories
...took two works of art about as far apart...and the famous bottle rack that cunning...Smithsonian American Art Museum is his...looked like nothing seen before. Very...comes midway through the exhibition, but midway through ... |
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Peter Robinson
...Triennial of International Art in Vilnius, both last...aware that he may be seen as an exotic, yet in...elsewhere, a beer bottle is accompanied by the...impossible for him to work abstractly anymore. The conflict...works, Robinson searches ... |
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Peter Robinson: Galerie Kapinos. (Berlin).
...Triennial of International Art in Vilnius, both last...aware that he may be seen as an exotic, yet in...elsewhere, a beer bottle is accompanied by the...impossible for him to work abstractly anymore. The conflict...works, Robinson searches ... |