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Creator:
Terrain Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Terrain Gallery  Search this
Type:
Writings
Date:
circa 1955
Place of publication, production, or execution:
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Physical Description:
Essay : 3 p. : typescript ; 28 x 22 cm.
Summary:
Date based on the Terrain Gallery's founding in 1954. <br>Document served as the gallery's manifesto, based on the tenets of Eli Siegel's aesthetic realism and drafted by founding members Martha Baird, Louis and Regina Dienes, Rebecca Fein, Nat Herz, Chaim and Dorothy Koppelman, Sheldon Kranz, Barbara Lekberg, Marvin Mondlin, Barbara Singer, and Nancy Starrels.
Citation:
Terrain Gallery. For the union of aesthetics and ethics: a manifesto, circa 1955. Terrain Gallery records, circa 1950s-2005. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use Note:
Current copyright status is undetermined
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. 20560
Topic:
Aesthetic Realism  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA)16797
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Terrain Gallery records, circa 1950s-2005, bulk 1955-1985
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_item_16797