John A. Walker (glossary)
Zoot suits (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Zoot Suits The zoot suit is a mode of male dress popular with young blacks and chicanos in the United States in the 1930s and ’40s: jackets with padded shoulders, a drape-shape and rear pleats, plus...
Zero art group (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 (Also Group Zero, Gruppe Zero, Group 0.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Zero art group Zero is an influential German experimental art group formed in Düsseldorf in 1957 by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, both of whom had been members of...
Zen 49 / Zen Group (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Zen 49 / Zen Group Zen 49 was a group of German abstract painters founded in Berlin in 1949. Members included Willi Baumeister, [Hann Trier], Emil Schumacher, Bernard Schultze, Theodor Werner, Fritz...
Zeitgeist (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Zeitgeist Zeitgeist is a German word meaning "spirit of the age". It was popularized by the idealist philosopher Georg Hegel and utilized by generations of art historians. Each age is considered to...
Gruppe Zebra (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Gruppe Zebra Gruppe Zebra is the name of a German group founded in Hamburg in 1965 by four painters: Dieter Asmus, Peter Nagel, Nikolaus Störtenbecker and Dietmar Ullrich. Their figurative images often...
Women Artists Slide Library (WASL) (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Women Artists Slide Library (WASL) The Women Artists Slide Library is a British organization (a registered charity) founded in 1982 and located in London whose aim is to provide a national resource of...
Westkunst (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Westkunst Westkunst is the title of a large-scale exhibition held at the Rheinhallen, Cologne, in 1981 which provided an international survey of contemporary art in Europe and North America since 1939....
West Coast School (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 (Also Pacific School.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. West Coast School Since 1945 many artists have emerged from or settled in the cities of the Western seaboard of the United States: Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. From...
Washington Color School (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Washington Color School Two abstract painters from Washington (DC, USA) noted for their use of acrylic paint and emphasis on colour— Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland— achieved international recognition in...
Visual communication (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Visual communication Visual communication is an extremely broad category encompassing such phenomena as pictorial advertisement, television, photography, films, comics, illustrated magazines, typography...
Visionary Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Visionary Art Writing in 1971, the American critic Thomas Albright identified a new movement he called “Visionary Art”. (Of course, the term “visionary” as applied to art was not new because such British...
Visionary Architecture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Visionary Architecture “Visionary Architecture” is a description applied to the work of a number of architects both modern and pre-modern. (Two pre-modern visionaries were Etienne-Louis Boullée and...
Video Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 (Including Alternative & Community Television, Artists’ Video, Guerrilla Television, Satellite Art, Street Video, TV Art, Video Sculpture.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Video Art Video Art is videotape recordings or video...
Verist sculpture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Verist sculpture Verist sculpture is a three-dimensional equivalent of photo-realist painting. To achieve verisimilitude, Verist sculpture depended upon the technique of making casts from the human body...
Venice Biennale / Venice Biennial (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Venice Biennale / Venice Biennial The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s largest and most important avant-garde art exhibitions held every two years in a number of permanent pavilions in the Giardini...
Utopie Group (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Utopie Group Utopie Group is a French, Marxist, experimental architectural group formed in Paris in 1967. Members included Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann, Antoine Stinco and Hubert Tonka. Utopie was...
Utopian Architecture (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Utopian Architecture The concept of Utopia ("no place")— an imaginary island where a perfect society existed— was originated by Sir Thomas More in 1516. During the nineteenth century Utopia became a...
Utility furniture and fashions (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 (Including Emergency Furniture, Home Front Furniture.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Utility furniture and fashions As a result of the Second World War, a system of government controls was imposed on British industry and a system of...
USCO / The Company of Us (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. USCO / The Company of Us USCO was an American artists’ collective founded in 1963 by Steve Durkee, Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan that was based in an abandoned church at Garnerville, New York. The...
Usable Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 19 Jun 92 Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Usable Art Usable Art is a concept devised by the American critic John Perreault to describe works selected for a 1981 exhibition. Artists whose works appeared in this show included Chris Burden, Scott...
