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Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art

Book by John I. H. Baur; Macmillan, 1958

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Art, Abstract, Art, American--Exhibitions, Artists--United States, Nature (Aesthetics)

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...ten or fifteen years, abstract art has been a dominant mode...character, most of our abstract painting and sculpture...recent trend toward an abstract but evocative imagery...the relation is between American abstract, art and one...
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American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists

Book by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1961

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Art, Abstract--Exhibitions, Expressionism (Art), Painting, American--Exhibitions

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...The Unwanted Title: Abstract Expressionism." It...Petersen V. "Young Americans, Seen and Heard at the Whitney Museum." Art News November, 1960...Significance of Abstract Art." Quadrum , No. 9...Americains." Ring des Arts , 1 1960 , 22-31 Rosenberg...Critic Within the Act." Art News October, 1960...William. "Younger American Painters." Art International...
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The World of Abstract Art

Book; George Wittenborn, 1957

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Art, Abstract, Art, Modern--20th Century

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...would now be known as abstract-expressionism a ratio...time a large display of American abstract works -- many...The Museum of Living Art made a purchase, but...marked a new direction for American art; it also presented...fact, that the best American abstract art of the thirties...
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German Expressionism and Abstract Art: The Harvard Collections

Book by Charles L. Kuhn; Harvard University Press, 1957

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Art, Abstract, Art, German, Expressionism (Art)

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...1922. In 1932, taught at the Art Students League, New York...citizen in 1938. Taught at the Art Students League and, in 1941-42, at the School of Fine Arts, Columbia University. Now...bibliography , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1954. George Grosz...
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Topics in American Art since 1945

Book by Lawrence Alloway; W. W. Norton, 1975

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Art, American, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States

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...relation to earlier abstract art. (It is noteworthy...exhaustive inventory of American abstract artists backgrounds...claim as theirs any Americans who admit to European...expansion of scale of American art. His canvases average...European precedent and American experience. The statement...

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Journal Articles on: american abstract art

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Modern Native American Art: Angel Decora's Transcultural Aesthetics

Journal article by Elizabeth Hutchinson; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001

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Aesthetics, Art criticism, Culture, DeCora, Angel, Native Americans, Visual artists

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...argued that Indian art was inherently geometric...conventional, and abstract. In so doing...another level, Native American art, with its long...offered a model for American artists struggling...asserted that Native Americans were consummate...been immersed-the Arts and Crafts beliefs...hoped to show how American Indian art could participate...
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Jewish Art in America: An Introduction

Journal article by Barbara Gilbert; American Jewish History, Vol. 93, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists (Reference work)--Book reviews, Jewish Art in America: An Introduction (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of contemporary American Jewish art" the Holocaust...meaning of Jewish art and also provides...list survey of American Jewish art. The...hauntingly beautiful abstract canvases and mixed...growing study of American Jewish art. Both would be...
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Our (Musuem) World Turned Upside Down: Re-presenting Native American Arts

Journal article by Janet Catherine Berlo, Ruth B. Phillips; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 77, 1995

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Art galleries & museums, Native Americans

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...historians and curators of Native American art are today rethinking the...Who has the right to control American Indian objects, many of which...by their makers not to be art objects but instruments of...displayed? And how will Native Americans, as they assume increasingly...as an institution? Native American arts are still radically underrepresented...
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The Chicago Poetry Group: African American Art and High Modernism at Midcentury

Journal article by Lubna Najar; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, 2005

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African Americans, Art, Chicago Illinois, Poetry, Poets, South Side Community Art Center-Chicago IL

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...Poetry Group: African American Art and High Modernism...1920s and the Black Arts movement of the 1960s...instantiates a hybrid African American identity, where colored...connotations of African Americans enhancement of the American population at large...burgeoning African American arts movement and the tradition...of African American art at midcentury. Viewed...
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Hybridity as a Strategy for Self-Determination in Contemporary American Indian Art

Journal article by Cynthia Fowler; Social Justice, Vol. 34, 2007

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Autonomy (Political science)--Social aspects, Autonomy--Social aspects, Cultural identity--Management, Native American art--Analysis

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...traditions came to shape American Indian cultural traditions...of Tears by European Americans, the most well-known...International Contemporary Art in Florence, where...Aboriginal Contemporary Art. Seattle: University...Diaspora of Queer Asian Americans." Social Justice 26...Fellowship for Native American Art, 2003. Indianapolis...

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Magazine Articles on: american abstract art

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Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Magazine article by Mark M. Johnson; Arts & Activities, Vol. 145, June 2009

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Abstract art--Exhibitions, Art, Abstract--Exhibitions, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian American Art Museum--Exhibitions

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...from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. by Mark...and mythology to create abstract compositions that addressed...world of contemporary art. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...optics and order in the art movements called op art and minimalism. The...boundaries of the visual arts further than any previous...
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Reading Abstract Art

Magazine article by Erin Hogan; American Scholar, Vol. 72, Autumn 2003

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Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work (Book)

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Reading Abstract Art. by Erin Hogan ARSHILE GORKY: HIS LIFE...and subsequent retreat from the New York art world. At the time, this world was brimming...magical rock in his fathers garden. Reading abstract art is a difficult process; reading it...
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Does Abstract Art Have a Future?

Magazine article by Hilton Kramer; New Criterion, Vol. 21, December 2002

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Art, Abstract--Forecasts, Art, Modern--Forecasts, Modernism (Art)

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...ourselves. In the art world, the emergence...determining the fate of abstract art since the 1960s...distinctions between high art and pop culture more...respective debuts on the American art scene at the...assault not only on the Abstract Expressionism of...
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Devotion to Style and Color: Art Expert Gerald Alexis Explores the Vibrant History of Haitian Art, from the Naive and Primitive to the Abstract and Contemporary

Magazine article by Gerald Alexis; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 59, May-June 2007

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Art, Primitive--Influence, Artists, Latin American--Evaluation, Arts centers--History, Haiti--Social aspects, Haitian art--Evaluation, Haitian art--History, Latin American artists--Evaluation, Primitive art--Influence

Collections: History, Entire Library

...History of Haitian Art, from the Naive and Primitive to the Abstract and Contemporary...literature, fine arts in Haiti did not...total absence of art schools, museums...position to purchase art often praised the...taste for the visual arts remained fashioned...Dewitt Peters, an American artist who came to...
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When Art Becomes Inhuman

Magazine article by Karl Zinsmeister; The American Enterprise, Vol. 13, January 2002

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Art, Abstract--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Photography, Artistic--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Serrano, Andres--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Violence in art--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...first revolutionary abstract painters. Dove was...little story about the American artist Thomas Hart Benton...with and then rejected abstract painting, precisely...the approval of the art establishment that was...in all contemporary arts. A few years ago, American composer Dominic Argento...

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Newspaper Articles on: american abstract art

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MOTHER'S BOY; the Armenian-Born Arshile Gorky Was Feted as the Father of American Abstract Expressionism -- but His Art Is Compelling Only When He Draws on the Tragic History of His Native Land; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 11, 2010

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Painters (Artists)--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions

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...Was Feted as the Father of American Abstract Expressionism -- but His Art Is Compelling Only When He...last Surrealist and the first American Abstract Expressionist, Gorky...adopted with enthusiasm by American painters and noisily promoted...
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I Start without Any Idea and I Aim for an Eventual Result at Some Point-; Abstract Art Explained by First Woman Painter to Win the Turner Prize

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 5, 2006

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Collins, Phil, Painters, Painters (Artists), Turner Prize (Art)

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...at Some Point-; Abstract Art Explained by First...Warren to land modern arts most famous accolade...really happy." Some art cognoscenti were...Charles Saatchis recent American art show at the Royal...chairman of the Arts Council, said...
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Pollock's? No, It's an Abstract by Sir Alex; Man Utd Boss Brushes Up on His Art to Raise Charity Cash

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 25, 2009

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Charities

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...Pollocks? No, Its an Abstract by Sir Alex; Man Utd Boss Brushes Up on His Art to Raise Charity Cash...AT first glance, the abstract artwork could be mistaken...the work of acclaimed American painter Jackson Pollock...a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement...
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Pollock's? No, It's an Abstract by Sir Alex; Man Utd Boss Brushes Up on His Art to Raise Charity Funds

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 25, 2009

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Charities

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...Pollocks? No, Its an Abstract by Sir Alex; Man Utd Boss Brushes Up on His Art to Raise Charity Funds...AT FIRST glance, the abstract artwork could be mistaken...the work of acclaimed American painter Jackson Pollock...A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement...
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AN AMERICAN CENTURY GIVES WAY TO THE GLOBAL YEARS; Arts Editor Terry Grimley Looks Back on the Significant Artistic and Cultural Trends of the 20th Century, and Thinks Things Can Only Get Even More Interesting

Newspaper article by Terry Grimley; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

AN AMERICAN CENTURY GIVES WAY TO THE GLOBAL YEARS; Arts Editor Terry Grimley...a lid was put on the arts of the 20th century...however, that 20th century art will not change. It...just as happens with the arts of previous centuries...American movements as abstract expressionist painting...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american abstract art

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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...modern European art opened fresh fields for the American artist. Early in...everyday life through art. At the same time...Europe and exhibited abstract paintings by such Americans as Max Weber , Marsden...presented to shocked Americans in the famous Armory...organized by such American artists as Arthur...
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Abstract Expressionism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM movement...singular prominence in American art in the following...to the American art scene. See M...The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism...Idea of Modern Art (1983); W...
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Modern Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MODERN ART art created from the 19th...sculpture, and other fine arts that had been practiced...Renaissance (see Renaissance art and architecture...to a certain extent abstract in that formal considerations...a generally shocked American audience in the Armory...1913, and from then on Americans began to participate...
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Mexican Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...country of Mexico. Such arts were already highly developed...see pre-Columbian art and architecture . The Colonial Period Folk arts, including the weaving...introduced to European art, especially painting...the hardships of Native American peasant existence. Later...figures in 20th-century abstract and semi-abstract easel...
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Spanish Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...was imported into the American colonies (see Spanish colonial art and architecture...exuberance of late baroque art. The founding in 1752...Spanish academies of art resulted in a wave of...discourage creativity in the arts for nearly two centuries...there was an outburst of abstract expressionism in Spain...

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