In the late 1950s, as Abstract Expressionism waned and restless artists searched for something new, a flowering of strange artistic experiments began to appear. A 1958 Art News article coined the term “Neo-Dada” for this burgeoning movement, just six years after the magazine announced the arrival of “The American Action Painters.” Including Robert Rauschenberg, Nam June Paik, Claes Oldenburg, and other artists, this new group was creating provocative, in-your-face art that took the emotive “action” off the canvas and brought it into the world. READ MORE

Posted on: August 16th, 2012 by Jennifer Ruocco
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