PEVSNER, ANTOINE

äNtwänˈ pyĕvzˈnər, 1886–1962, Russian sculptor and painter. He was influenced by cubism while in Paris in 1911 and 1913. During World War I he was in Norway with his brother Naum Gabo. They returned to Moscow after the Russian Revolution. Pevsner taught at the Moscow academy and associated with avant-garde artists such as Malevich and Tatlin. He and Gabo worked together in 1920 on the manifesto of constructivism. In sculpture Pevsner created constructivist works in bronze and other materials, such as his portrait of Marcel Duchamp (1926; Yale Univ.). His rhythmic, abstract designs intended a new synthesis of the plastic arts. Impending conflict with the regime caused Pevsner to leave the Soviet Union in 1922. The next year he settled in France. Several of his constructions are in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

See biography by his brother, Alexi Pevsner (1964).

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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
...1945. Exhibition catalog listing 3 works by Pevsner p 12 biographical note on Pevsner, p 16 and quotations from Realistic Manifesto , p 6-7 * 12.----- Antoine Pevsner. 10 p plus 24 plates Paris, 1947. Issued...
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Gateway to the Twentieth Century: Art and Culture in a Changing World
Book by Jean Cassou, Emil Langui, Nikolaus Pevsner; McGraw-Hill, 1962
Subjects: Art--History--19th Cent, Art--History--20th Cent
...Auguste, 51 , 251 -2, 307 -8 Petit, Georges, 11 Pevsner, Antoine, 68 , 143 Picabia, Francis, 65 , 71 , 136 , 155...53 , 55 , 66 -7, 71 , 126 Rochegrosse, Georges-Antoine, 18 Rodenbach, 126 Rodin, Auguste, 53 , 57 , 66...
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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
...11-23 passim. Pevsner M 369 PEVSNER ANTOINE. Espaces. Realites Nouvelles...1950. Also no. 6 1952. M 370 PEVSNER ANTOINE. Statement . Abstraction, Creation...no. 2: 35 ill. 1933. M371 PEVSNER ANTOINE. Temoignage: Lespace . XXe...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...at Island Heights, New Jersey. Pevsner, Antoine 1886-1962 . Russianborn sculptor...Baltimore Museum of Art, 1950-1 . Pevsner was a founder member of Abstraction...to other artists in the group. Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus 1902-83 . German...
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A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Book by Ian Chilvers; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Artists--Biography--Dictionaries
...Peverelli, Cesare. See SPATIALISM. Pevsner, Antoine 1886-1962 . Russian-born sculptor...rest of his life. Up to this time Pevsner had been a painter, but he now...Baltimore Museum of Art, 1950-1 . Pevsner was a founder member of * Abstraction...
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journal articles on: Pevsner Antoine  - 3 results

 
 
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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
...of the Russian Constructivists in the West, Naum Gabo among the American applicants (fig. 2), and his brother Antoine Pevsner among the French entries; both were given awards in the final competition.(Figure 2 omitted) As stated, none...
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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
...Naum Gabo called it. The demand for its inclusion was strongly featured in the Futurist Manifesto of Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner and in Marinettis Manifesto of Futurism. For all the shrill demands, especially from the Italian artists, movement...
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Beyond the Bounds of Truth: Cultural Translation and William Chambers's Chinese Garden
Journal article by David Porter; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Architects--Criticism and interpretation, Architects--Works, Authors, English--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, English--Works, Chambers, William--Criticism and interpretation, Chambers, William--Works, Chinese culture--Analysis, Chinese culture--Influence, English writers--Criticism and interpretation, English writers--Works, Exoticism--Analysis, Landscape gardening--Methods
...example, in the wake of Antoine Gallands translation...Chase; E. Harris; Pevsner; Reaves). But what...French architect Marc-Antoine Laugier that "there...430-40. Galland, Antoine. Arabian Nights Entertainments...persanes. Paris: 1721. Pevsner, Nikolaus. "The Other...


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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
ANTOINE PEVSNER by Peter Blum This stunning exhibition of almost a half century of drawings (1912-56) by Antoine Pevsner was accompanied by one of the few surviving copies of the "Realistic...
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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
...helped establish. He was born Naum Neemia Borisovich Pevsner in 1890, and changed his name to Gabo in 1915 to avoid confusion with his brother Antoine Pevsner. Together they penned the Realistic Manifesto, a Constructivist...
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High-Wire Act
Magazine article by Carroll Dunham; Artforum International, Vol. 47, February 2009
Subjects: Artists--Criticism and interpretation, Artists--Works, Calder, Alexander--Criticism and interpretation, Calder, Alexander--Works
...who had recently formed a group called Abstraction-Creation, which included Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Jean Arp, Antoine Pevsner, and Jean Helion, among others, and they invited Calder to join. This gave his new work an intellectual context...
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Building with Colors and Shapes: the Modernist Aesthetic for Young Children
Magazine article by Alison Aune; Art Education, Vol. 58, January 2005
Subjects: Aesthetics, Art education, Children & youth, Educational materials
...from his abstract sculptures. Later he moved to Paris where he met artists such as Alexander Calder, Hans Arp, and Antoine Pevsner. Soto enlivened his kinetic sculptural forms with brightly colored Plexiglass" materials. His experimentation with...
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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 In his "Realistic Manifesto" of 1920 (cosigned by his brother Antoine Pevsner), Naum Gabo declared, "We do not measure our works with the yardstick of beauty, we do not weigh them with pounds...
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Shapes Set in Motion
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, March 29, 1998
Subjects: Calder, Alexander
...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 motion to the...


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encyclopedia articles on: Pevsner Antoine  - 6 results

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Pevsner, Antoine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEVSNER, ANTOINE aNtwan pyevz n r, 1886 1962, Russian...Moscow after the Russian Revolution. Pevsner taught at the Moscow academy and associated...manifesto of constructivism . In sculpture Pevsner created constructivist works in bronze...
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Constructivism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...suprematism . After 1916 the brothers Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner gave new impetus to Tatlins art of purely abstract...as unsuitable for mass propaganda purposes. Gabo and Pevsner went into exile, while Tatlin remained in Russia...
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Gabo, Naum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...
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Sculpture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sculptors working internationally, including Pablo Picasso , Constantin Brancusi , Jacques Lipschitz, Naum Gabo , Antoine Pevsner , Ossip Zadkine , Alberto Giacometti , and Ivan Mestrovic . Important contributions have also been made by the sculptors...
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Modern Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...developing, Russia made extraordinary contributions to the current of nonfigurative art. The sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner joined the movement known as constructivism (c.1913 c.1921), and the painter Casimir Malevich founded suprematism...
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