General 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 included Robert ...

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 Brown and Burne-Jones ...

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 and traditional. Its ...

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 from the idea that ...

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 identity for a number of ...

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 later member. Their ...

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 establishment to take ...