Hyperrealismes--USA 1965-1975: Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg. (Strasbourg).Just after Pop art created a taste for iconography iconography (ī'kŏnŏg`rəfē) [Gr.,=image-drawing] or iconology [Gr.,=image-study], in art history, the study and interpretation of figural representations, either individual or symbolic, religious or secular; drawn from the banal precincts of everyday life, and some time before photography began to rival the great apparatus of painting, there was hyperrealism hy·per·re·al·ism n. An artistic style characterized by highly realistic graphic representation. hy . This exhibition revisits the American phase of the phenomenon in detail. As imagined by the highly imaginative art historian Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Jean-Claude Lebensztejn is a French art historian and art critic, formerly a professor at the Sorbonne. Lebensztejn is one of the most remarkable representatives of the now older generation of French art theorists, sometimes cited as a pioneer of structuralism. , accompanied by Patrick Javault of the MAMC MAMC Madigan Army Medical Center MAMC Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site (US National Park Service) MAMC Midarm Muscle Circumference MAMC Mealer American Motor Co. MAMC Master of Arts in Mass Communication in Strasbourg, "Hyperrealismes" presents roughly seventy works by more than a dozen artists, from Richard Artschwager to Ben Schonzeit. The landmark catalogue includes texts by the curators and art historian Richard Shiff, as well as previously unpublished interviews with several of the artists. June 27-Oct. 5. Translated from French by Jeanine Herman. |
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