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Art history
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Ashcan School
Art history; General art history
A group of North American artists who used realist techniques to depict social deprivation and injustice in the American urban environment of the early twentieth century. Artists ...
Arts and Crafts Movement
Art history; General art history
Movement in design emerging from Pre-Raphaelite circle and initiated by William Morris in 1861 when he founded design firm Morris and Co in London. He recruited Rossetti, Madox ...
Artists International Association
Art history; General art history
An exhibiting society founded in London in 1933 and active until 1971. It was principally a left-of-centre political organisation and it embraced all styles of art both modernist ...
Artist Placement Group
Art history; General art history
Organisation founded in 1966 by Barbara Steveni with her husband John Latham. Its purpose was to place artists in government, commercial and industrial organisations. APG emerged ...
Arte Povera
Art history; General art history
The term Arte Povera was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator, Germano Celant, in 1967. His pioneering texts and a series of key exhibitions provided a collective ...
Arte Nucleare
Art history; General art history
Refers to the work of the Movimento d'Arte Nucleare, founded by the Italian artist Enrico Baj together with Sergio Dangelo and Gianni Bertini, in Milan in 1951. Gianni Dova was a ...
Art Workers' Coalition (AWC)
Art history; General art history
A group of activists, including Carl Andre, Lucy Lippard and Robert Smithson, who came together in 1969, in New York, to promote artists' rights and to challenge the art ...
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