Sentences with phrase «german dadaist»

This silkscreen (an edition of 20) by Shinro Ohtake is a tribute to German Dadaist Hannah Höch, who was instrumental to the development of 20th - century photomontage.

George Grosz, Dallas Broadway, 1952, watercolor on paper, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift in memory of Leon A. Harris In 1952 George Grosz, the expatriate German dadaist and satirist, was invited to Dallas by Leon Harris, Jr., the young vice president of the Harris and Company department store.

Commissioned to accompany Tate Britain's exhibition on the great German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, it comprised a film shown in mock - up of the Lake District cottage where a fictitious grandfather of Prouvost, a conceptual artist and supposed associate of Schwitters, spent his last years, making abominable pottery while trying to dig a tunnel to Africa.

In the beginning of the»60s, Arman was still under a tremendous impression by the exhibition German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters held in 1954.

British artist Linder is possibly best known for a record sleeve she designed for the Buzzcock's single Orgasm Addict in 1977 - an iconic image, of a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples, has become a symbol, not only of a defining era of punk culture and feminism, but also a microcosm for her expansive body of work, which operates on a deeply contextual level with issues of gender, feminism, stereotyping and sexualisation, echoing the work of Hannah Hoch, the German Dadaist for whom this edition was created in homage.

While Parisian modernism paled after the first world war, the German dadaists brought a vicious honesty into art in the Weimar age.

Not exact matches

Interest in Dada followed in the wake of documentary publications, such as Robert Motherwell's The Dada Painters and Poets (1951)[3] and German language publications from 1957 and later, to which some former Dadaists contributed.

At first I thought it must be some kind of Dadaist event, an exhibition devoted to Arp and his notional family — because to a German - speaker, the word «Artschwager «could be construed as a bilingual neologism, a combination of the English word «art» and the German word «Schwager `, or in - laws.

In 1918, the German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948) applied to join the Berlin Dadaists but was rebuffed for his unpolitical attitude.

Joseph Beuys well known German artist and art theorist, John Cage an American music theorist and philosopher, and Marcel Duchamp a French artist that's associated with Dadaist and Surrealist.

These included: Little French Girl (1914 — 18), by Constantin Brancusi; an untitled still life (1916) by Juan Gris; a bronze sculpture (1919) by Alexander Archipenko; and three collages (1919 - 21) by the legendary German Hanoverian Dadaist Kurt Schwitters.