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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The New York School"”.
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Survival Tips For A Parallel Universe
… concerned with sudden change, limitations, and the way those changes and limits might develop and burden intimate relationships. The collection’s central sequence, “Survival Tips For A Parallel Universe: Parts One, Two, Three, and Four,"? works through an imagined alternate world where the human …
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Multi-Disciplinary Modernism: Peggy Guggenheim and Art of This Century
Peggy Guggenheim built one of the most important and internationally esteemed collections of modern art, and established what is the most famous gallery of our time, Art of This Century. Guggenheim’s scandalous life and numerous affairs with artists have often problematically overshadowed her role …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
The study of American modernism tends to move through a series of major phases, with World War II as a historical divider between movements such as Regionalism and American Scene and later developments in formal abstraction associated with the New York School. Many scholars have adhered to this …
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Hedda Sterne and the abstract expressionist context
This dissertation focuses on the development of Hedda Sterne’s artistic philosophy and practice in the 1940s and 1950s. Over those years Sterne began to develop a concept of her identity as an artist that set her apart from most of her colleagues and fundamentally shaped her unique oeuvre. She …
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Designing American Taste: Frank Alvah Parsons, Queer Pedagogy and the Development of Applied Art and Design Education in the 20th Century
This thesis seeks to understand the life and work of design educator Frank Alvah Parsons (1863-1930), Parsons School of Design’s namesake, as well as his disciples, William M. Odom and Van Day Truex. Parsons dedicated his life to democratizing design and was one of America's foremost design …