The exhibition presents a diverse range of artworks by several generations of artists who responded to the experience of ideological conformity as it had been enforced within official art academies. Oriented toward irony and parody, but also toward serious speculation about the place of the individual in Soviet society and Western art history, artists engaged in a dialogue with the priorities of o...

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September 03, 2016 - January 08, 2017 - This exhibition features prints by artists working in France and England during the 1860s and early 1870s, selected from the Zimmerli Art Museum’s renowned collection of nineteenth-century works on paper. They represent a new generation of artists who embraced the expressive qualities of etching and realized works with rich contrasts of light and dark ...

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September 03, 2016 - January 08, 2017 - The selection on view in this exhibition contains examples of color field painting, geometric abstraction, assemblage, and pop all styles current in the international art world of circa 1966. The wide range of art produced and collected circa 1966 is evidence of the global energies of the art market and the push by artists to explore new materials and new co...

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September 03, 2016 - January 08, 2017 - The artists in this exhibition share an interest in exploring paint as an expressive medium and image making as a layered, experiential endeavor. For all the artists, surface and image coalesce in what David Deutsch described as a “balance of control and accident.” While Fariba Hajamadi’s diptych combines oil paint and photographic emulsion...

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September 03, 2016 - July 30, 2017 - The three artists in this exhibition each used abstract expressionism, the prevailing American style in the postwar period, as a point of departure. Their paintings represent important continuities with the previous generation and highly distinct personal innovations.

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September 03, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - This exhibition has a  selection of prints dates from 1960 to 1974, a period of renewed interest in printmaking in the United States. Numerous print studios opened throughout the country, including Universal Limited Art Editions Tamarind Lithography Workshop, and Gemini G.E.L. These workshops were staffed by highly trained master printers and played hos...

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September 05, 2017 - January 07, 2018 The exhibition focuses on American, European, and Soviet and post-Soviet Russian photographers who use the camera to educate, persuade, and to effect social change. Among the photographers included in the exhibition are Berenice Abbott, Max Alpert, William Castellana, Walker Evans, Larry Fink, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lewis Hine, Boris Ignatovich, Dorothea Lange, ...

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