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Overview of the events of 1952 in art
Events from the year 1952 in art.
Events
- August 29 – Composer
John Cage's
4′33″, during which the performer does not play, premieres in
Maverick Concert Hall,
Woodstock, New York.
- Eight younger British artists (
Robert Adams,
Kenneth Armitage,
Reg Butler,
Lynn Chadwick,
Geoffrey Clarke,
Bernard Meadows,
Eduardo Paolozzi and
William Turnbull) are represented in the "New Aspects of British Sculpture" exhibition at the
Venice Biennale which
Herbert Read describes as the "
Geometry of Fear".
[1] Britain also displays paintings by
Graham Sutherland and
Edward Wadsworth.
-
Louis le Brocquy's
1951 painting
A Family sparks controversy in
Ireland when a group of art patrons offer to present it to the
Dublin Municipal Gallery and it is rejected by the Art Advisory Committee on the grounds of incompetence.
-
Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic collection Images à la sauvette is published by
Tériade in Paris.
- Publication of Un Art Autre, by
Michel Tapié.
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