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new objectivity

Art history; General art history

Usually translated as New Objectivity. German modern realist movement of the 1920s, taking its name from the exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit held in Mannheim in 1923. Part of the phenomenon of the ...

Neue Wilden

Art history; General art history

Term used in Germany for Neo-Expressionism. The Neue Wilden (ie new Fauves) included two artists who became major international figures, Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer.

New British Sculpture

Art history; General art history

Around 1980 there can be seen to have been a general reaction in western art to the predominance of Minimal and Conceptual art in the previous decade. In painting this reaction took the form of ...

Founded in London in 1886 as an exhibiting society by artists influenced by Impressionism and whose work was rejected by the conservative Royal Academy. Key early members were Whistler (although he ...

New Generation Sculpture

Art history; General art history

New Generation was the title used for a series of exhibitions of painting and sculpture by young British artists held at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in the early 1960s. The 1965 show was ...

new media

Art history; General art history

A term used to describe the sophisticated technologies that have become available to artists since the late 1980s. New media defines the mass influx of media, from the CD-Rom to the mobile phone and ...

New Sculpture

Art history; General art history

Name given to work of group of sculptors identified by critic Edmund Gosse in 1876 article in Art Journal titled 'The New Sculpture'. Distinguishing qualities were a new dynamism and energy as well ...