Only show
results for:

Topics related to "The legacy of cubism. (New York Museum of Modern Art director William Rubin)"

Rick Rubin Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin Producer, record company executive The Village Voice once dubbed Rick Rubin "Satan's Record Producer" and the highly successful and iconoclastic Rubin has been tagged with a bevy of similar epithets. His production and support of such controversial recording artists as horror-rappers the... Read more
primitivism primitivism
primitivism in art, the style of works of self-trained artists who develop their talents in a fanciful and fresh manner, as in the paintings of Henri Rousseau and Grandma Moses . The term primitive has also been used to describe the style of early American naive painters such as Edward Hicks ... Read more
Matta Matta
Matta (Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren) , 1911?-2002, Chilean painter who left his native country for Paris (1935) and thereafter worked in Europe and the United States, b. Santiago. Matta was an exponent of surrealism in the group around André Breton in the late 1930s.... Read more
Lionel Trilling Lionel Trilling
Lionel Trilling 1905-75, American critic, author, and teacher, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1925; M.A., 1926; Ph.D., 1938). He began teaching literature at Columbia in 1932 and became a full professor in 1948. His essays—collected as The Liberal Imagination (1950), The Opposing... Read more
Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr 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
George Washington Cable George Washington Cable
George Washington Cable 1844-1925, American author, b. New Orleans. He is remembered primarily for his early sketches and novels of creole life, which established his reputation as an important local-color writer. Cable served as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War and afterward was a writer and... Read more
Aaron Copland Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland , 1900-1990, American composer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Copland was a pupil of Rubin Goldmark and of Nadia Boulanger, who introduced his work to the United States when she conducted his Symphony for Organ and Orchestra in 1925. Although his earliest works show European influences, the... Read more
Albert Leon Gleizes Albert Leon Gleizes
Albert Léon Gleizes , 1881-1953, French cubist painter, illustrator, and writer. He was among the outstanding cubists in the Salon des Indépendants of 1911. Gleizes employed a rich palette in contrast to the essentially monochromatic effects of Braque and Picasso, and his work remained... Read more
Raymond Duchamp-Villon Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Raymond Duchamp-Villon , 1876-1918, French sculptor; brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon. From the tradition of Rodin he turned to cubism in 1912. He began to assemble machinelike forms with more than a touch of fantasy. His famous geometrically faceted Horse is in the... Read more
Robert Goldwater Robert Goldwater
Robert Goldwater 1907-73, American art historian, b. New York City. Goldwater taught at Queens College, N.Y., from 1934 to 1957, when he was appointed professor of fine arts at New York Univ. The same year he also became the director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. Known primarily... Read more

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

MoMA goes for the grandiose
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune ...Museum of Modern Art, which opens...like the new corporate...beauty of the Modern's historic...founding director and genius...brilliantly, under William Rubin and Kirk...made the Modern the Modern...deeply to New York City. It...cultural ...

See all related articles