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cycling. A primitive wheeled cycle was exhibited at Paris in 1791 but had to be pushed with the feet, as were the hobby-horses of the 1810s. In the 1860s a front-wheel-drive machine was manufactured—the bone-shaker—and in subsequent decades the front wheel became larger until the... Read more |
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Forum Exhibition
Forum Exhibition (in full, Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters). An exhibition arranged in New York in 1916 by the critic Willard Huntington Wright with the support of the magazine The Forum, to which he was a regular contributor. The purpose of the exhibition was to pinpoint the best... Read more |
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Great Exhibition
Great Exhibition. The first international industrial exhibition ever held, open to the public from 1 May to 11 October 1851 in Hyde Park, London; its full title was ‘The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851’. Prince Albert was chairman of the committee that... Read more |
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Festival of Britain
Festival of Britain. A large-scale celebration of British culture mounted in 1951; ostensibly it was meant to commemorate the centenary of the Great Exhibition (held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London), but in fact it was intended as ‘a tonic to the nation’ (the words of Sir ... Read more |
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Allied Artists Association
Allied Artists' Association (AAA). A society of British artists formed in 1908 by the critic Frank Rutter and artists in Sickert's circle for the purpose of organizing annual exhibitions in the jury-free manner of the French Salon des Indépendants. The association, which represented a reaction... Read more |
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Young Contemporaries
Young Contemporaries. Exhibition of works by British art students held in London since 1949 on a roughly annual basis (lack of funds or organization—they are generally arranged by the students themselves—has sometimes prevented the shows taking place). The first Young Contemporaries... Read more |
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Biennale
Biennale (or Bienal or Biennial). An art exhibition held every two years, particularly a large and prestigious exhibition of international scope. The first to be founded and still the most famous is the Venice Biennale, instituted in 1895 as the ‘International Exhibition of Art of the City of... Read more |
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London Group
London Group. An exhibiting society of British artists formed in 1913 by an amalgamation of the Camden Town Group with several smaller groups and various individuals. The first president was Harold Gilman; apart from other ex-Camden Town Group artists, the strongest representation among the early... Read more |
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