GABO, NAUM

noum gäˈbō, 1890–1977, Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner. Gabo lived in Munich and Norway until the end of the revolution, when he returned to Russia. With Pevsner he wrote the Realist Manifesto (1920), which proposed that new concepts of time and space be incorporated into works of art and that dynamic form replace static mass. His sculptural experiments with constructivism, a movement he helped found, were often transparent, geometrical abstractions composed of plastics and other materials. Gabo's art conflicted with Soviet art directives. In 1922 he left Moscow for Berlin where he taught at the Bauhaus, later moving to England and then to the United States. In 1957 he executed a huge public monument in Rotterdam.

See his Gabo (1957) and Of Divers Arts (1962); study by R. Olson and A. Chanin (1948).

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Antoine Pevsner
Book by Abraham S. Chanin, Ruth Olson; Museum of Modern Art, 1948
Subjects: Gabo, Naum--1890-, Pevsner, Antoine--1886-1962, Sculpture, Russian--Exhibitions
GABO-PEVSNER naum GABO Introduction by Herbert Read Text...America . Constructivism: the art of Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner by Herbert Read...7: Constructivism: The Art of Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner by Herbert Read...
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Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space
Book by Carola Giedion-Welcker; George Wittenborn, 1960
Subjects: Sculptors, Sculpture, Modern--20th Century--History
...experience in terms of space and time." N. Gabo and A. Pevsner, Realist Manifesto...Rodchenko, Moholy-Nagy, Pevsner and Gabo--to mention only leading names-demonstrates...Pevsner Developable Column of Victory and Gabo Construction in Space are related to and...
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Modern Sculpture: Origins and Evolution
Book by Jean Selz, Annette Michelson; George Braziller, 1963
Subjects: Sculpture, Modern--20th Century
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A Concise History of Modern Painting
Book by Herbert Read; Frederick A. Praeger, 1959
Subjects: Painting, Modern--20th Century
...was the academic fame of Munich that attracted such foreign artists as Wassily Kandinsky and Alexei von Jawlensky, Naum Gabo and Paul Klee; and though Munich was alert to all that was happening in Paris, the Bavarian capital radiated a more...
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Sculpture since 1945
Book by Andrew Causey; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Sculpture, Modern--20th Century--History
...these groups were still active in 1945: the Russian-born Naum Gabo 1890-1977 and his brother Antoine Pevsner 1886-1962...here is affected by his high valuation of the 16 Naum Gabo Linear Construction in Space , No. 1, 1942-3 Gabo...
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Zadkine and Gabo in Rotterdam
Journal article by Joan Pachner; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Art history, Gabo, Naum, Memorials & monuments, Rotterdam Netherlands, Sculpture, World War II, Zadkine, Ossip (1890-1967)
...new Bijenkorf department store by Naum Gabo (1953-57; fig. 3).Figures 1-3 omitted...Steven A. Nash and Jorn Merkert, eds., Naum Gabo: Sixty Years of Constructivism, exh...Possibility," in Nash and Merkert, Naum Gabo, 41. 21. Read to Gabo, March 19...
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Art and the Brain
Journal article by Semir Zeki; Daedalus, Vol. 127, 1998
Subjects: Art--Philosophy, Artists--Attitudes, Brain--Physiological aspects, Visual perception--Analysis
...public is deprived of vision.(2) - Naum Gabo I, Much has been written about...movement or the fourth dimension, as Naum Gabo called it. The demand for its inclusion...featured in the Futurist Manifesto of Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner and in Marinettis...
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Doing What Comes Naturally
Journal article by Martin Kemp; Art Journal, Vol. 55, 1996
Subjects: Art, Biologists, Books, Genetics, Science, Thompson, D Arcy Wentworth (1860-1948)
...and Albrecht Durer with those of Naum Gabo or, more distantly, the coiled Aztec...is the constructive sculpture of Naum Gabo, which often relied upon exactly...there is no evidence to suggest that Gabo knew Thompson at this date, he was...
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The Ascendancy of Abstraction for Public Art
Journal article by Joan Marter; Art Journal, Vol. 53, 1994
Subjects: Art, Memorials & monuments, War
...Russian Constructivists in the West, Naum Gabo among the American applicants (fig...recognition at MoMA. Among these were Gabo, who was applauded by Ritchie in Abstract...show organized at MoMA in 1952.(10) Gabo, Lippold, Calder, Roszak, Ferber, and...
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Women Designers in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s: Defining the Professional and Redefining Design
Journal article by Suzette Worden, Jill Seddon; Journal of Design History, Vol. 8, 1995
Subjects: Design--History
...bring about in Britain a rapprochement with international modernism. Leslie Martin, with Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, edited Circle, International Survey of Constructive Art in 1937 and in 1939 he and Speight published The Flat...
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"Naum Gabo: Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture" at PaceWildenstein
Magazine article by Daniel Kunitz; New Criterion, Vol. 18, January 2000
Subjects: Artists--Exhibitions, Gabo, Naum--Exhibitions, PaceWilderstein, New York--Exhibitions
"Naum Gabo: Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture" at PaceWildenstein by Daniel Kunitz "Naum Gabo: Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture" at PaceWildenstei...New York. November 4-January 8, 1999 Naum Gabo (1890-1977) possessed an astonishing consistency...
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Naum Gabo Pacewildenstein
Magazine article by Donald Kuspit; Artforum International, Vol. 38, February 2000
Subjects: Gabo, Naum--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Minimal sculpture--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculptors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
NAUM GABO PACEWILDENSTEIN by Donald Kuspit...cosigned by his brother Antoine Pevsner), Naum Gabo declared, "We do not measure our works with...from the heads to the space constructions, Gabo seems to have found his emotional and aesthetic...
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Antoine Pevsner
Magazine article by Peter Blum; Artforum International, Vol. 38, October 1999
Subjects: Artists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Constructivism (Art)--Evaluation, Drawing--Exhibitions, Socialist realism--Evaluation
...Realistic Manifesto," which Pevsner wrote with his brother Naum Gabo on the occasion of their open-air Tverskoy Boulevard exhibition...constant rhythm of the forces . . . in objects." Pevsner and Gabo thought of sculpture as the perfect vehicle for their new...
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The Constructed Relief
Magazine article by Ron Kostyniuk; School Arts, Vol. 89, January 1990
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th century, Elementary school students--Education, Relief (Art)--Study and teaching
...evolved into a unique and separate form. Naum Gabo, the Russian theorist of the Constructivist...foundation in 1920 with,the publication of Gabo and Pevsners Realist Manifesto. Space...was emphasized as a malleable entity. Gabo and Pevsner distinguished themselves...
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Splotchy Wallpaper: Alexander Calder, Designer
Magazine article by Amy Charleroy; School Arts, Vol. 101, September 2001
Subjects: Calder, Alexander--Conduct of life, Designers--Conduct of life
...to study drawing and painting. It was there that he became interested in avant-garde artists such as Piet Mondrian and Naum Gabo. As a sculptor, his first major work was the Cirque Calder (Calder Circus), a miniature, fully functioning circus of...
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United by Unique Light and Landscape
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 9, 2007
Subjects: Artists
...they helped establish the most important artists community in 20th Century Britain. Hepworth and Nicholson were joined by Naum Gabo and St Ives became known for its abstract avant-garde art which was both international in outlook but strongly rooted...
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Take a Bite out of the London Art Fair
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 18, 2006
Subjects: Exhibitions
...and William Scott, to Peter Blake, Gillian Ayres and Damien Hirst. Modern British work is well represented: youll find Naum Gabo at Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Sir Terry Frost at Belgrave Gallery, Patrick Heron at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert and Ben Nicholson...
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History Carved on a Vase
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 23, 2005
...introduce the public to the best contemporary thought and scholarship in the fine arts. Speakers have included sculptor Naum Gabo, art historian H.W. Janson and Museum of Modern Art curator Kirk Varnedoe, who drew crowds to his lectures on abstract...
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Shapes Set in Motion
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 29, 1998
Subjects: Calder, Alexander
...challenged the traditional notions of sculpture that involved surface, solidity and mass. The Russian constructivists Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner were experimenting with some of the same ideas. However, they never pushed the concept of sculptural...
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A Triumph for the Old Salts of St Ives; ART
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 2, 2009
...sculpture and projects the results through Perspex constructions in what I took to be a homage to the Russian constructivist Naum Gabo, who lived in St Ives in the Thirties. If American conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is possibly the strongest of the younger...
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Gabo, Naum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GABO, NAUM noum ga bo, 1890 1977, Russian sculptor...and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner . Gabo lived in Munich and Norway until the end of...huge public monument in Rotterdam. See his Gabo (1957) and Of Divers Arts (1962); study...
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Constructivism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...movement known as suprematism . After 1916 the brothers Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner gave new impetus to Tatlins art...disparaged as unsuitable for mass propaganda purposes. Gabo and Pevsner went into exile, while Tatlin remained in...
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Kinetic Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dimension. The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp , Naum Gabo , and Alexander Calder . Kinetic art is either nonmechanical...g., Calders mobiles , or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy , and Jean Tinguely . The latter...
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Pevsner, Antoine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...During World War I he was in Norway with his brother Naum Gabo . They returned to Moscow after the Russian Revolution...avant-garde artists such as Malevich and Tatlin. He and Gabo worked together in 1920 on the manifesto of constructivism...
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Russian Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...radical modern artists were Casimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Chaim Soutine, Aleksey von Jawlensky, Antoine Pevsner, Naum Gabo, Wassily Kandinsky, Mikhail Larinov, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Archipenko. Most of them left the country after 1923...
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