Hyperrealismes--USA 1965-1975: Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg. (Strasbourg).Just after Pop art pop art, a movement that first emerged in Great Britain at the end of the 1950s as a reaction against the seriousness of abstract expressionism. British and American pop artists employed a common imagery found in comic strips, soup cans, and Coke bottles to express formal abstract relationships. By this means they provided a meeting ground where artist and layman could come to terms with 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; more broadly, the art of representation by pictures or images, which may or may not have drawn from the banal precincts of everyday life, and some time before photography began to rival the great apparatus of painting, there was hyperrealism. This exhibition revisits the American phase of the phenomenon in detail. As imagined by the highly imaginative art historian Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, 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 in Strasbourg Strasbourg (sträzb  r`), Ger. Strassburg, city (1990 pop. 255,931), capital of Bas-Rhin dept., NE France, on the Ill River near its junction with the Rhine. It is the intellectual and commercial capital of Alsace., "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 The landmark catalogue includes texts by the curators and art historian Richard Shiff, as well as previously unpublished interviews with several of the artists.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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