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A Dada periodical founded by Picabia in Barcelona in 1917; subsequent issues were published in New York, Lausanne, Zurich, and Paris until 1924. The name was meant to recall Stieglitz's short-lived ...
Ai Weiwei
(1957– )Chinese multimedia artist, born in Beijing. His family was sent into exile a year after he was born and his contempt for the political system led him in 1981 to exile in New York, where he ...
Alexander Calder
(1898–1976)US sculptor and painter, who was one of the first artists to introduce movement into sculpture through his invention of mobiles.Although his grandfather and his father were both sculptors ...
André Breton
(1896–1966)French poet.Breton was born in Tinchebray, Orne. His early involvement with the dadaists revealed itself in such works as Mont de piété (1919); in the same year he co-founded the ...
anti-art
A loosely used term associated with art which debunks the traditional categories or concepts of art. It was supposedly coined by Marcel Duchamp in 1914. Dada was considered the first anti-art ...
appropriation
The taking over of a real object or work of art into another work of art, for example in Cubist art in which fragments of newspapers were included to represent themselves. The term has particularly ...
Armory Show
An art exhibition (officially entitled the International Exhibition of Modern Art) held in New York, 17 February–15 March 1913, at the Armory of the National Guard's Sixty-Ninth Regiment, Lexington ...
assemblage
Art produced by the assembling of disparate elements, often scavenged or bought by the artist. The practice dates back to Picasso's Cubist constructions made from 1912 onwards. It was later adopted ...
Berenice Abbott
(1898–1991).Photographer. Besides views of New York and scientific images, she also created distinguished portraits. Born in Springfield, Ohio, Abbott grew up in nearby Columbus and in Cleveland. She ...
Bruce Nauman
(1941– ).Sculptor, video artist, printmaker, conceptual artist, installation artist, performance artist, and photographer. Among the most mercurial, innovative, and controversial artists of recent ...
Calvin Tomkins
(1925– )American writer and editor who has had a distinguished career in art journalism. He was born in Orange, New Jersey, and studied at Princeton University, graduating in 1948. From 1955 to 1959 ...
Carolee Schneemann
(1939– )American Performance artist, film-maker and painter. She began her career as a painter but became involved in avant-garde Performance in New York in the early 1960s. From this period dates ...
Charles Demuth
(b Lancaster, Pa., 8 Nov. 1883; d Lancaster, 23 Oct. 1935).American painter and illustrator, a pioneer of modern art in his country. He visited Europe in 1904, 1907–8, and 1912–14, staying mainly in ...
collage
(Fr., coller: ‘to gum’).A term applied to a type of picture (and also to the technique used in creating such pictures) in which photographs, news cuttings, and other suitable objects are pasted on to ...
Conceptual art
A type of art in which the idea or ideas that a work represents are considered its essential component and the finished ‘product’, if it exists at all, is regarded primarily as a form of ...
Constantin Brancusi
(1876–1957)Romanian-born French sculptor and a pioneer of abstract sculpture.Brancusi was born into a large and prosperous peasant family in a district with a tradition of woodworking. After studying ...
contemporary art
A term loosely used to describe art that is of the moment or the very recent past, in distinction to modern art, which is a more all-embracing term and can be used to cover many of the avant-garde ...
Cornelia Parker
(1956– )British multimedia artist, born in Cheshire. She studied at Gloucester College of Art, Wolverhampton College of Art, and Reading University. Much of her work is dependent on the appropriation ...
dada
An early 20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd. Dada was launched ...
Daniel Spoerri
(1930– )Swiss sculptor, Performance artist, designer, writer, publisher, dancer, and choreographer. He was Romanian by birth, but he fled with his family in 1942, after the death of his father, and ...
