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Abstract expressionism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

The Myth of Nouveau Realisme Art and the Performative in Postwar France / Cabanas, Kaira ; Aragon L ; Artaud A ; Barthes R ; Brau JL ; Breton A ; Cage J ; Cesar ; Debord G ; Derrida J ; Duchamp M ; Filliou R ; Hains R ; Isou I ; Tinguely J ; Jorn A ; Klein Y ; Lebel JJ ; Lemaitre M ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Mathieu G ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Rauschenberg R ; Restany P ; Spoerri D ; Rotella M ; Villegle J ; Williams E ; Wolman G ; Dufrene F ; Jouffroy A ; Tapie M ; Arman., 2013

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Identifier: CC-56499-9999903
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: On October 27, 1960, art critic Pierre Restany named a group of Paris-based artists the "Nouveaux Realistes" (New Realists) in a founding declaration that stated, "The New Realists recognize their collective singularity. New Realism = new perceptual approaches of the real." Besides Restany, this group included Arman, Francois Dufrene, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques Villegle. Their work incorporated consumer objects and new media in response to the postwar period's painterly modes and its burgeoning consumer and industrial society. However, they did not share a common avant-garde strategy.The Myth of Nouveau Realisme is a critical reassessment of this important neo-avant-garde movement. Kaira M. Cabanas offers an interdisciplinary account of their work and challenges the ideas of Restany, who mandated a "direct appropriation of the real." Cabanas posits that, for the Nouveaux Realistes, realism engaged...
Dates: 2013

The New World Odor / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09236-9417
Scope and Contents

Hirschman contrasts the narrow demands of government with the freedom of making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

This is Visual Poetry. No.69/Mar / Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55585-9999208
Scope and Contents Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingde adores Jackson Pollock. He first conflated Cubist and Abstract Expressionist sensibilities in "One Line About the Sea", a mixed media canvas of charcoal, graphite and metal he created for the closing event of the Singapore Writers Festival in 2009. An interdisciplinary artist, Desmond also works in clay, his commemorative pieces housed in museums and private collections in India, the Netherlands, the UK and the US. He has edited more than ten books and co-produced three audio books, several pro bono for non-profit organizations. He sporadically works on an on-going project of recasting his early 1990s illustrations into what he calls Linearte Poems. Desmond says: "In 2005, I subjected myself to several bouts of binge drinking to achieve more authentic streams of consciousness. Fragments written during that time appear in these images, which cast the poetic line against the geometric. There are allusions to drip painting but made angular and planar....
Dates: 2011

Thoroughly modern master / Ure-Smith, Jane; Phillips T., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42313-44323
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Tom Phillips comments on El Greco's paintings at an exhibition held in the National Portrait Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Tired uv Bein Sane batty / Sloy., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29096-30440
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The drawing forms one surface of a postcard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Torque: maximum rotation ephemera series: theverticalisad.... No.1.3/Mar / Beth Learn., 1995

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Identifier: CC-37608-39465
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This issue is a supplement to Torque 1.3 that is catalogued separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Untitled] / Behar, Zachary Sackner., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38821-40735
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This drawing was done by Zachary Behar in honor of his grandfather Marvin Sackner's 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Untitled] / Straus, Austin., 1993

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Identifier: CC-28555-29840
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The image has a graffetti-like appearance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[untitled] / Thibert, Bernard., 1983

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Identifier: CC-60654-64560
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Most pages consist of abstract expressionistic images reminiscent of Jackson Pollack's style. This might have been a student work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Work In Progress on Bridge Piers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stirling, Annet; Berman, Brenda., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12210-12434
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This card depicts a color photograph on its verso of a calligraphically carved stone sculpture being sited near a bridge in Glasgow and a photographic reproduction of an abstract expressionist painting by Vladimit Kokolia on its recto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990