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Creator: Contemporary
Artist 1980s NevelsonStyle Sculptural GiltMetal Crushed Jagged Pendant Necklace
By Contemporary
Located in Chicago, IL
Louise Nevelson, an American modern sculptor who enhanced found objects throughout the 20th Century, in the 1980s transformed crushed and gilt metal in...
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Brass, Gilt Metal

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    Items manufactured after 2000 are considered “contemporary.” The year 2000 was chosen as the accepted date to mark the point at which digital design and manufacturing began to effect design, either as a generative process or reaction.

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    Contemporary art encompasses painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance and video art, among other genres.

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    In contemporary art, conceptual art is a movement that began in the 1960s. Artists producing conceptual art assign more importance to the idea behind the art than to the piece itself. An example is Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three Chairs, a piece consisting of a real chair, a photograph of a chair and the dictionary definition of the word chair. When the work was displayed, Kosuth included instructions for any chair to be photographed and then displayed beside its image. In this way, the chair itself is not the artwork. Rather, the art comes from examining the way the object, image and words provide competing and complementary definitions of what a chair is. Find a large selection of fine art on 1stDibs.
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