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	COBRA (avant-garde movement) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		COBRA was a European avant-garde movement active from 1949 to 1952.
		There is a COBRA Museum in Amstelveen, Netherlands, displaying works by Karel Appel and other international avant-garde art.
		COBRA was formed from an amalgamation of the Dutch group Reflex, the Danish group Høst and the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_movement) (189 words)

	Situationist International Online
		IN 1958, something of a conspiracy launched a new avant-garde movement that had the peculiar trait of having been defunct for seven years.
		The groups that made up the Cobra movement were united in the proclamation of experimental cultural research.
		On the other hand, a number of artists abandoned their preoccupation with experimental activity, putting their talent to use in making this particular pictorial style, which was the sole tangible result of the Cobra endeavor, and highly fashionable (for example [Karel] Appel in the UNESCO building).
	www.cddc.vt.edu /sionline/si/cobra.html (812 words)

	Suunto Cobra
		COBRA, a post-World War II European avant-garde movement whose name is derived from the letters of the members' home cities: COpenhagen, BRussels, and Amsterdam.
		The King Cobra male is similarly unique in that it guards the nest until the young hatch, patrolling a large area around the nest for threats.
		''Cobra'' is starring Sylvester Stallone as a cop, Reni Santoni as his partner, Stockard Channing as a crooked cop, and Brigitte Nielsen as a witness to a crime.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/85/suunto-cobra.html (1395 words)

	iqexpand.com
		The avant-garde was originally identified with the promotion of social progress, seeing the group or individual so described as the pioneer of a social reform movement.
		Avant Garde: Creating New Relationships with Art Avant Garde is for individuals and families between the ages of 21 and 45 who share an interest in cultivating the arts...
		Over time the term has also come to be associated with movements concerned with ‘art for art's sake’, concerned primarily with expanding the frontiers of aesthetic experience, rather than with wider social reform.
	avant-garde.iqexpand.com (564 words)

	Jan Bosveld
		The Cobra movement, which existed from November 1948 until November 1951, can with some justicication be called the last major avant-garde movement of the 20th century.
		The name "Cobra" also happens to contain the first letters of the cities Copenhagen, Brussels ans Amsterdam, from where most of the movement's members came.
		Shortly after the Second World War, a combative movement of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to strict guideliness of form.
	www.janbosveld.nl /english/toelichtingen/harmonie/cobra.html (294 words)

	COBRA - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		A post-World War II European avant-garde movement (COBRA), whose name is derived from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam)
		COBRA is also a series of ultra-violent spy novels written in the 1970s by Joseph R. Rosenberger.
		In the United Kingdom, the acronym COBRA, formed from the words Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, is a term used to describe a top-level committee that co-ordinates government action during an emergency.
	www.indopedia.org /COBRA.html (255 words)

	avant garde
		The avant garde was originally concerned with art for the sake of social progress: seeing the artist as the vangard of a social reform movement.
		Avant garde (sometimes avant-garde; literally, vanguard) is a French phrase, one of a number of French phrases used by English speakers.
		Over time however the term has also come to be associated with movements concerned with "art for art's sake", concerned directly with aesthetic experience rather than social reform, the direct opposite of its original intentions.
	www.fact-library.com /avant_garde.html (150 words)

	News-sheet 172 Nov/Dec 2004
		Although arguably not the ‘last avant-garde’ of its subtitle, the artists of Cobra certainly deserve this well-researched monograph.
		The Cobra artists were best known for their colourful and violently expressionist brushwork, their depiction of mythological or folkloric themes, and their interest in the so-called ‘outsider’ art of children and the insane.
		Cobra, a group formed in 1948, derived its curious name from the initial letters of three cities: Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam.
	www.arlis.org.uk /news/172/resourcesbooks.html (1043 words)

	Cobra: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Cobra
		A post-World War II European avant-garde movement (the name is derived from the initials of the members' home cities: Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam): see Cobra (avant-garde movement)
		A United States Army helicopter; see AH-1 Cobra.
		A movie starring Sylvester Stallone: see Cobra (movie).
	www.encyclopedian.com /co/Cobra.html (101 words)

	Official destination guide of the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions - Amsterdam - Attractions - Karel Appel fountain
		The Cobra Museum also presents various other important works of art by the artists of the international avant-garde CoBrA movement.
		The Cobra Museum is great fun and parents often have a hard time persuading their children to leave...
		The Cobra Museum of Modern Art is the proud owner of the only Karel Appel fountain in the world!
	www.holland.com /us/amsterdam/attractions/appel.html (139 words)

	CoBrA Art , NASA's Fun Science , ZoomViews , Jamestown Rediscovery
		CoBrA, which was founded in November 1948 by the Danish painter Asger Jorn, the Belgian painters Christian Dotremont and Christian Noiret, and the Dutch painters Karel Appel, Constant and Corneille, survived until November 1951, and can with some justification, for the time being at least, be called the last great avant-garde movement of the century.
		CoBrA Art, NASA's Fun Science, ZoomViews, Jamestown Rediscovery
		The name is made up of the first letters of the cities where its members lived and worked: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam.
	surge.ods.org /listarc/20030331.HTM (667 words)

	cobra - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Phrases that include cobra: black-necked cobra, cobra lily, cobra toxin, cobra venom factor, direct lytic factor of cobra venom, more...
		COBRA : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
		COBRA, cobra : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=cobra&ls=a (326 words)

	BookkooB : Cobra - Willemijn Stokvis : Compare Book Prices
		Cobra: The Last Avant-Garde Movement of the Twentieth Century
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	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0853318980.htm (242 words)

	What's On at Europe's Museums Culture & Lifestyle Deutsche Welle 07.04.2003
		Bonn mounts a retrospective of Paul Klee's Rhineland years; Vienna celebrates Friedrich Amerling's 200th birthday and the avant garde CoBrA movement is alive and well in Rome in this week's European museum calender.
		Bonn, Germany's, Art and Exhibition Hall is currently showing a retrospective of Paul Klee's work produced during the years he spent in the Rhineland area of Germany.
		Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Paul Klee's works from his time spent in Düsseldorf are part of a new show in Bonn.
	www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1441_A_827107_1_A,00.html (487 words)

	Erik Ortvad - Psychology Central
		He was a member of the COBRA avant-garde art movement, and is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings.
		Erik Ortvad (born in Copenhagen 18 June 1917) is a painter and a creator of many drawings.
		He also created several hundred satiric drawings about the modern way of life under the pseudonym Enrico.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Erik_Ortvad (147 words)

	Willemijn Stokvis Cobra: The Last Avant Garde Movement of the Twentieth Century
		Cobra: The Last Avant Garde Movement of the Twentieth Century
		Willemijn Stokvis Cobra: The Last Avant Garde Movement of the Twentieth Century
	www.birminghamwomensadvice.co.uk /Willemijn-Stokvis-Cobra-The-Last-Avant-Gar-860-696-551-8.html (104 words)

	Russell duPont
		Three essays on the avant-garde movement in Russia and in Hungary and on the collecting of Russian avant-garde art.
		Cloth; 329pp; 59 major works by 34 artists are illustrated in color and supported with hundreds of bw comparative and supportive illustrations.
	www.dupontbooks.com /GenReference.htm (9419 words)

	DSM - Sustainability - Truijen
		Hans Truijen's work shows an affinity with the avant-garde CoBrA movement with its playful figures and bright colours.
		It also brings to mind the work of Marc Chagall with its poeticism and virtuosity.
	www.dsm.com /en_US/html/sustainability/kunst_truijen.htm (119 words)

	Cobra Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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		Operation Cobra and the Great Offensive: Sixty Days That Changed the Course of World War II
		Cobra Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
	www.bookfinder4u.com /search_3/Cobra.html (253 words)

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	Asia De Garde
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	www.bodawg.com /point/27834-asia-de-garde.html (591 words)

	Museum of the Moving Image
		This was the first feature film by Mekas, a central figure in the New York avant-garde from the 1950's through the present, as a critic, filmmaker, founder of Anthology Film Archives, and all-around spokesperson for the movement.
		One of the few feature length avant-garde films released theatrically, the poetic drama Echoes of Silence is an episodic portrayal of a group of Greenwich Village drifters, notable for its strong atmosphere and its depiction of gay relationships.
		Rejecting the factory-style artifice of Hollywood films, whose worlds were literally built from scratch on empty soundstages, underground filmmakers found their reality in the world around them.
	www.ammi.org /site/screenings/content/2000/nyu.html (2149 words)

	Cobra Law
		COBRA, a post-World War II European avant-garde movement whose name is derived from the letters of the members' home cities: COpenhagen, BRussels, and Amsterdam.
		The King Cobra male is similarly unique in that it guards the nest until the young hatch, patrolling a large area around the nest for threats.
		''Cobra'' is starring Sylvester Stallone as a cop, Reni Santoni as his partner, Stockard Channing as a crooked cop, and Brigitte Nielsen as a witness to a crime.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/39/cobra-law.html (1396 words)

	Cobra Law
		COBRA, a post-World War II European avant-garde movement whose name is derived from the letters of the members' home cities: COpenhagen, BRussels, and Amsterdam.
		The King Cobra male is similarly unique in that it guards the nest until the young hatch, patrolling a large area around the nest for threats.
		''Cobra'' is starring Sylvester Stallone as a cop, Reni Santoni as his partner, Stockard Channing as a crooked cop, and Brigitte Nielsen as a witness to a crime.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/39/cobra-law.html (1396 words)

	BookkooB: Cobra
		Cobra: The Last Avant-Garde Movement of the Twentieth Century
		Cobra: the Shelby American Original Archives: The Shelby American Original Archives 1962-1965
		The Cobra and the Concubine (Leisure Historical Romance)
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /title/cobra.htm (1396 words)

	Situationist International Selected Bibliography -- The SI Dossier
		Tracing its development back to the European avant-garde and groups such as COBRA, Lettrism and the International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus, Ford provides a comprehensive historical background to the 1957 foundation of the Situationist International under its self-proclaimed leader, the brilliant Guy Debord.
		An endless adventure...an endless passion...an endless banquet : a situationist scrapbook : the Situationist International selected documents from 1957 to 1962 : documents tracing the impact on British culture from the 1960s to the 1980s / ed.
		an endless banquet : a situationist scrapbook : the Situationist International selected documents from 1957 to 1962 : documents tracing the impact on British culture from the 1960s to the 1980s / ed.
	members.chello.nl /j.seegers1/bib_si/bib_si.html (1650 words)

	Basic Banalities
		The Situationist International (SI) was founded in 1957 in the Italian village of Cosio d'Arroscia as the Avant-Garde group 'International Movement for an Imaginist Bahaus' (IMIB) merged with the Lettrist International (LI) and the London Psychogeographical Association.
		The two had already been leading member of The International of Experimental Artists, later known as COBRA, as well as members of the International Movement For an Imaginist Bahaus (IMIB), one of the founding groups of the Situationist International.
		After the dissolution of COBRA, Jorn continued his activity of 'experimental artist' and of frantic organiser and contact-maker.
	art.ntu.ac.uk /mental/storie/bbpre.htm (1650 words)

	BBC NEWS England Art 'too good' for Northerners
		Cobra, which was founded in November 1948 and survived until November 1951, is considered the last great avant-garde movement of the century.
		On show: The Toad by Cobra artist Erik Ortvad
		The touring exhibition, ironically arranged by the Hayward Gallery in London, will be on show in Gateshead for six weeks, starting in March.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/2656705.stm (1650 words)

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