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  1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
November 4 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson (correctly predicted by UNIVAC computer).
December 4 - Great Smog of 1952: A "killer fog" descends on London ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" becomes a word).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1952   (1865 words)

  
 Art Pepper The Art Of Pepper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Art Pepper's third recording in his comeback years was recorded in a studio but has the emotional intensity and chance-taking improvisations of his live concerts of the period.
Art Pepper's appearances at the Village Vanguard in 1977 were a major success, making the brilliance of the West Coast-based altoist obvious to the New York critics.
Art Pepper was in the process of dying at the time this recording was made, but there's no lack of energy, no loss of vitality.
home.ica.net /~blooms/pepdisco.html   (5954 words)

  
 1952 in art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
IMDb: I've Got a Secret (1952) Provides information about hosts and panelists for the game show that ran from 1952-1967.
Omor Ekushe (21 February 1952) 52-er Bangla bhahsar shaheedder proti nibedito website (Heroic sons of the soil who had made a supreme sacrifice for upholding the dignity of the Bangla language in 1952)
Nebula Science Fiction 1952 - 1959 A site devoted to Nebula Science Fiction magazine edited and published by Peter Hamilton in Glasgow between 1952-1959.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-1952_in_art.html   (251 words)

  
 Topographical Bibliography s3.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Aldred, N.K. Art (1951), 45 pl. 15; (1961), 46 pl. 16 (as Hatshepsut); Cooney in JNES xii (1953), 6 [17] pls.
Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Louvre 56-7 [12] fig.; Berman, L. in Minerva 7 [2] (March-April 1996), 15 fig.
Amenophis III); Aldred, N.K. Art (1951), 69 pl. 88; Vandier, Manuel iii, 637 pl. cxvi [1,2]; Charbonneaux, Les merveilles du Louvre i, pl. on 93; Posener, Sauneron and Yoyotte, Dict.
www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk /gri/s3.html   (13061 words)

  
 leonardo-da-vinci.org
Most items are either conventional notes of gratitude acknowledging a favorable art or book review (occasionally including extended commentary on artistic matters), or requests for Clement's aid in the form of a positive mention in a review, service on a committee, or advice on collecting.
Cook, T. Spirals in nature and art; a study of spiral formations based on the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, with special reference to the architecture of the open staircase at Blois, in Touraine, now for the first time shown to be from his designs, E. Dutton.
Spirals in nature and art : a study of spiral formations based on the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, with special reference to the architecture of the open staircase at Blois, in Touraine, now for the first time shown to be from his designs.
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk /%7Emhl/index30.html   (10481 words)

  
 N° 1209 - Rapport  sur le projet de loi (loi n° 52-893 du 25 juillet 1952) relative au droit d'asile (2ème ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adopté en première lecture par l'Assemblée nationale le 5 juin dernier puis par le Sénat le 23 octobre dernier, le projet de loi modifiant la loi n° 52-893 du 25 juillet 1952 relative au droit d'asile revient aujourd'hui en deuxième lecture devant notre assemblée.
Approuvant ces modifications qu'il juge conformes à la logique du projet de loi et qui confortent les orientations retenues en première lecture par notre assemblée, le rapporteur a proposé à la Commission d'adopter le projet de loi sans modification.
Comme le prévoit aujourd'hui l'article 4 de la loi du 25 juillet 1952, il est précisé que ce recours est suspensif d'exécution et qu'il doit être exercé dans le délai d'une semaine.
www.assemblee-nationale.fr /12/rapports/r1209.asp   (7545 words)

  
 WWW Pop Art: Horace Clifford Westermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He studied commercial art, 1947-52, and painting, 1952, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1968 he was given a retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
In 1978-79 he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was shown in several cities in the USA.
www.fi.muni.cz /~toms/PopArt/Biographies/westermann.html   (173 words)

  
 Art Movements, periods, styles, trends, history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"ABC Art," the title of an influential article she wrote for the October 1965 issue of Art in America, did not catch on as a name for the movement, but in that article she referred to art pared down to the "minimum," and by the late 1960s Minimalism was commonly being used.
As an art historical term, modern refers to a period dating from roughly the 1860s through the 1970s and is used to describe the style and the ideology of art produced during the era.
Modern art, especially abstract art, was thought by formalist critics to progress toward purity; in the case of painting, this meant a refinement of the medium's essential qualities of color and flatness.
www.e-fineart.com /art_movements.html   (4910 words)

  
 The Hindu : dated December 9, 1952: Art Education
From the Editorials: "It is a common error to imagine that art is something remote from life that concerns only the painter and the sculptor, who must realise their dreams in isolation.
That is why it is important that the various applied arts should be studied in our country as earnestly as any other branch of learning.
The Board had already prepared a draft scheme to standardise the content and methods of art courses to be taught all over the country.
www.hinduonnet.com /2002/12/09/stories/2002120901100901.htm   (253 words)

  
 Harley Davidson Vintage Posters
The "K Model" in 1952 was the first 'completely new' model Harley-Davidson® had come out with in 16 years.
This is a wonderful reproduction of a vintage Harley-Davidson® Motorcycles advertising art poster for motorcycles in 1925 by Joseph Rovers.
This is a wonderful reproduction of a vintage Harley-Davidson® Motorcycles advertising art poster for the new delux Duo-Glide Harley featuring larger tires, hydraulic suspension in the front and rear, a comfortable seat as well as spacious saddlebags.
www.enjoyart.com /motorcycles_scooters2.htm   (736 words)

  
 David Bates (American, 1952 -)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
David Bates was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1952.
At that time, his unique style of figure painting and sculpture was not appreciated by the New York art world, so he experimented with a variety of styles and media.
He studied several periods of art history as a part of his program and renewed a lifelong interest in folk art.
www.batguano.com /bgma/bates.html   (192 words)

  
 Hall of Fame Inductee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Art Jackson in 1947 with his Remington 37.22 rifle.
Art Jackson on the cover of The American Rifleman magazine in May 1954.
Art Jackson with the 1955 Winchester Trophy at Camp Perry, Ohio.
www.usashooting.com /alumni/ArthurJackson.html   (326 words)

  
 Bridget Riley: Paintings - An Overview Of Her Art
She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1949 to 1952, and at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955.
Since the mid-1960s she has been celebrated for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings which actively engage the viewer's sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting.
Riley is acclaimed as one of the finest exponents of Op Art, with her subtle variations in size, shape and position of blocks within the overall pattern.
www.mishabittleston.com /artists/bridget_riley   (741 words)

  
 Modern Art in Los Angeles (Research at the Getty)
James B. Byrnes was the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1946-1952).
Henry Hopkins was a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from 1961 to 1968 and director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1973 to 1986.
From 1994 to 1998 he directed the UCLA Hammer Museum and he is professor emeritus of the art department at UCLA.
www.getty.edu /research/scholarly_activities/events/forties.html   (330 words)

  
 GERALD SAUER FINE ART Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Eileen Downey was born in San Francisco and received her art education at UC Berkeley with a B.A. in 1959 and M.A. in 1960.
Graduate of the Art Institute, CA Teaching Credential, studied at the Sergei Bongart School of Art, and many master artists throughout the United States.
Pauletta Chanco was born in the Manila, Philippines in 1959.
www.trocadero.com /gsauer/catalog40.html   (652 words)

  
 leonardo-da-vinci.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Discusses artistic and political genius in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries as exemplified in the art of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Titian and the thought of Machiavelli.
Kemp, M., The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat, Yale University Press 1990, reprinted with revisions 1992; in Italian as La Scienza dell'arte.
Kemp, M., 'Ogni dipintore dipinge se: A Neoplatonic Echo in Leonardo's Art Theory?', in Cultural Aspects of the Italian Renaissance: Essays in Honour of Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed.
www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk /~mhl/index31.html   (8970 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Monosiet, Pierre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Noticed as a young man of talent, he was awarded a three-month scholarship that enabled him to visit museums in American cities in 1952.
On Peters’s death Monosiet was called back as consultant for the planning of the Musée d’Art Haïtien in Port-au-Prince, of which he was appointed the first Director in 1972, a post he held until his death.
He was always deeply committed to the work of Haitian naive artists, rather than to that of the modernists who found more favour with the Haitian public; the recognition accorded to these artists abroad confirmed his own choices and his conviction that naive painting had its own recognizable and distinct tradition.
www.artnet.com /library/05/0591/T059182.asp   (318 words)

  
 Tate | Glossary | Art Informel
The term was used by the French critic Michel Tapié in his 1952 book Un Art Autre to describe types of art which had in common that they were based on highly improvisatory (ie informal) procedures and were often highly gestural.
An exhibition titled Un Art Autre was organised in Paris the same year as Tapié's book and included Appel, Burri, De Kooning, Dubuffet, Fautrier, Mathieu, Riopelle, Wols.
The term Art Autre, from the title of Tapié's book, is also used for this art, but Art Informel seems to have emerged as the preferred name.
www.tate.org.uk /collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=28   (178 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Music: 1952-1970: Art Of Amalia (Rm) [BEST OF]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This retrospective ranges from her first recordings in 1952 up to 1970 and gives a superb picture of her work.
The instrumentation is simple guitar and Portuguese mandolin, perfectly framing her aching laments and flowing melodies, like a gentler version of flamenco or a continental cousin of Cesaria Evora's morna.
As her fans have always known, Amalia's voice is powerful and beautiful, the music is sometimes light and lively (as in "Vou dar de beber a dor"), sometimes dusky and melancholic in tone (as in "Primavera").
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000C2NH   (734 words)

  
 Peggy Bacon Online
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Peggy Bacon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
University Art Museum at the University of California
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bacon_peggy.html   (217 words)

  
 A Finding Aid to the Clay Spohn papers, ca. 1862-1985, in the Archives of American Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Part 1 of the Clay Spohn papers was loaned to the Archives of American Art for microfilming and is subject to all copyright laws.
Part 1 was lent to the Archives of American Art in 1964 by Clay Spohn, and was microfilmed and returned to Spohn.
Part 2 was donated to the Archives of American Art by Urban Neininger in 1978 and was partially microfilmed.
artarchives.si.edu /findaids/spohclay/spohclay.htm   (2509 words)

  
 Blue Nude I, 1952, Henri Matisse - Buy Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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Art poster: Famous image by Henri Matisse the French Fauvist & sculptor.
Matisse was a master of colour, using simple cut-out shapes against plain backgrounds.
www.popartuk.com /art/blue-nude-i-1952-sa037-print.asp   (180 words)

  
 Pablo Picasso - 1952 Quotes - Literary Quotes About Pablo Picasso - 1952 and Practically Everything Else   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
From the moment that art ceases to be food that feeds the best minds, the artist can use his talents to perform all the tricks of the intellectual charlatan.
Most people can today no longer expect to receive consolation and exaltation from art.
I myself, since the advent of Cubism, have fed these fellows what they wanted and satisfied these critics with all the ridiculous ideas that have passed through my mind.
quotes.prolix.nu /Authors/?Pablo_Picasso_-_1952   (268 words)

  
 Hugh Kenner Papers, Folder List
"Rectitude and Certainty," ART & ANTIQUES, 1984 "Reflections on the Death of Roland Barthes," n.d.
"Yoruba Twins," ART & ANTIQUES, 1991 "Zen and the Art of Assembly," BYTE, 1990 "Zukofsky, Lewis," n.d.
"Was Shakespeare Bigoted?," FORWARD, 1982 Pound, Ezra 3 American Academy of Arts and Sciences - correspondence and clippings, 1972 4 Aesthetic Education Institute - correspondence and mimeo typescripts, 1981 5 THE ANALYST newsletter, n.d.
www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/kenner.folder.html   (10044 words)

  
 Davison Art Center Exhibition Catalogs Collection, 1952-
The Davison Art Center, housed in the 1839 Alsop House, comprises exhibition galleries, classrooms, offices, and the university’s collection of prints and photographs.
The building was acquired by Wesleyan in 1949 and has been used by the university as the Davison Art Center since 1952.
The original collection was housed in the Davison Art Rooms in Olin Library before forming the core collection of the Davison Art Center.
www.wesleyan.edu /libr/schome/FAs/1000-21.htm   (513 words)

  
 AIC News Releases for 1952
Art in Your Life, display of art objects from AIC Collection in the store windows on Chicago's State Street and North Michigan Avenue, as a part of AIC Emergency Fund Campaign, first Museum campaign for the public support; remarks by AIC President Chauncey McCormick, co-chairmen of the Campaign Mrs.
Arts of Ancient Peru: The Edward Gaffron Collection, exhibition, made possible by Hans and Mercedes Gaffron; preview in connection with Annual Governing Members Luncheon; works on view and comments on the collection 16
"Art Institute Week in Chicago", proclaimed by Chicago Mayor Martin H. Kennelly at the meeting with AIC President Chauncey McCormick and members of AIC Board of Trustees; text of the proclamation and statement of AIC President, reporting on the balance of the Museum Emergency Fund Campaign 37
www.artic.edu /aic/libraries/musarchives/pr/muspress_releases_1952.html   (705 words)

  
 Percy Gray (1869-1952) - Fine Art Dealers Association
Percy Gray was born in San Francisco in 1869, to a family of artists.
Gray studied at the San Francisco School of Design before leaving for New York, where he headed a magazine art department and studied at the Art Students League.
He was a resident of the Bohemian Club upon his death in 1952.
www.fada.com /browse_by_essay.html?essay=493&gallery_no=3&artist_no=3226   (157 words)

  
 sell.com classifieds : Eiffel Tower 20x24 Framed - Paris, France for sale in Oakland (2ND9X)
The title is 'Paris, France, 1952.' This art print is printed on high quality acid-free 80 lb.
Art Closeouts may be new to the internet world, but not to the art industry.
We have been in the wholesale art business for more than twelve years.
www.sell.com /2ND9X   (701 words)

  
 1952   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
November 4 - U.S. presidential election 1952 : Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson (correctly predicted by UNIVAC computer).
Since reading it, after American Airlines thought enough of it to include excerpts in their magazine, I was intrigued by the stories of the islands, the people, the culture, th...
I bought this book after looking at a friend's copy, and I can say that this was one of the finest investments in my Theatre Arts library that I have ever made.
www.freeglossary.com /1952   (1828 words)

  
 Willem de Kooning Online
Willem de Kooning at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Willem de Kooning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Willem de Kooning at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/de_kooning_willem.html   (498 words)

  
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Wildlife painter Lars Jonsson, specializing in oils and watercolors of birds, was born in Sweden in 1952.
His art career started early, when he exhibited, at age fifteen, at the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm.
His work, influenced by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bruno Liljefors, and Paul Robert, is exhibited in Sweden and England, as well as North America, including the "Birds in Art" exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin, which, in 1988, named him a "Ma (showing 500 of 1168 characters).
www.askart.com /artist/J/lars_jonsson.asp?ID=112614   (268 words)

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