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Contingent

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Description: Contingent
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Description: Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources
The 1960s and 1970s were decades of extraordinary turbulence in the United States politically, socially, economically, and culturally. The visual arts thrived in this atmosphere, in some cases deeply engaged in the tumult, in some cases relatively detached from it. A number of important artists were motivated to write about their work in manifestos, statements, interviews, and theoretical essays....
PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art
Related print edition pages: pp.398-455
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.010
Description: The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist
Andre stands out from most of his Minimalist contemporaries by placing himself as a sculptor rather than as an artist who moved out into three dimensions from a practice inspired by recent modernist painting such as Jackson Pollock’s and Barnett Newman’s. He insisted that he had ‘always been drawn toward mass and weight and three-dimensional stuff and, more candidly than many other sculptors and architects for whom ‘representation, or portrayal’ were at best peripheral to their thinking, he was …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.311-356
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00156.013

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