Arman
Sydney Besthoff: Collecting New Orleans-style (2004)
→ café libraryR.J. Preece - 01 Oct 04
...Arman, Fernando Botero, Louise Bourgeois, Scott Burton, Lynn Chadwick, Sandro Chia, Barbara Hepworth, Jacques Lipchitz, Allan McCollum, Henry Moore, Arnaldo Pomodoro, George Rickey, George Segal, Joel Shapiro, and Ossip Zadkine. (The remaining nine were museum purchases or gifts from other...
David Bowie in Art and Celebrity (2003)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 28 Feb 03
David Bowie in Art and Celebrity (2003) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s now classic book. David Bowie’s creative accomplishments, like those of Dennis Hopper, are hard to encapsulate because they are so diverse and extend across so many realms: song writing, composing, performing and producing...
Stamp Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Arman, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Ken Friedman, Ray Johnson, J. H. Kocman, Carol Law, Dieter Roth, Saul Steinberg, Ben Vautier and Emmett Williams. Many collections of Stamp Art by individuals and groups have been published in book or catalogue form. Hervé Fischer claims to have organized the...
Plastics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Arman exploited the transparency of GRP resin by embedding objects in it. Kinetic artists such as Yaacov Agam, Julio Le Parc, László Moholy-Nagy, Nicolas Schöffer, Jesús Rafael Soto and Yvaral found acrylic sheets useful because they could be engraved and because they lent themselves to coloured...
Nouveau Réalisme (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92
...Arman, François Dufrêne, Raymond Hains, Klein, Martial Raysse, Daniel Spoerri and Jean Tinguely. Several others— César, Christo, Jacques Villeglé, Gerard Deschamps, Mimmo Rotella and Niki de Saint-Phalle— participated later on. The work of the artists who took part in the movement was disparate,...
Car culture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Arman embedded whole cars (58 of them) in a huge concrete tower he entitled "Long term parking" (1982, located in a park at Jouy, France). See also Cult Objects, Customizing & Custom Painting, Hi-Way Culture, Lifestyle, Styling, Subculture. References and further reading > Ronald Barker...
