Content Type for Movement
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[edit] ART MOVEMENT/GROUP ENTRY
Art Movement/Group Name
A note about this entry or category’s scope vis-a-vis the concept of style, which is often associated with movements: This template is for historical styles such as Political Pop, which is characterized by particular themes or content, used by a group of artists working at the same time. For a style broadly conceived as a recurring artistic approach (such as abstraction or expressionism and written in lower case letters), use the template/category for ART FORM /MEDIUM/APPROACH
Images: Photos of work and documentary images of group activities, exhibitions, related-locales etc should appear throughout. Be sure to label images in a brief, neutral way, beneath each picture. The first picture should not be a picture of a single artist or artwork but of something related to the group and should be placed, after the 3-4 sentence summary of the movement’s importance at the top.
- 3-4 sentence summary of the movement’s importance and influence, and (perhaps) the transformation and/or dissolution of the group
- Photo (as above)
- Who 5-12 artists associated with the group, the key members in caps (list rather than in sentence form, and, where appropriate, link artists’s names to individual artists’ entries on ASC Wiki)
- When The years during which the group was active (eg 1989-94) Try to be precise, since we’re dealing with only a few decades of contemporary artmaking
- Where City(s) or geographic locales(s) where group members resided and operated (may be as simple as “Beijing”) and comment if significant (eg “a provincial place that became impt because of Wang Li’s residence there.)
- What Including NAME (Origin and circumstances of the movement’s naming—whether proclaimed by manifesto, a critic’s insult, a geographic locale etc. Also alternate names) and INTENTIONS. (Quotes from manifestoes or statements would be fantastic). This might be considered HISTORY as in ORIGINS
- Art A description of movement artists and the works they produced embodying shared ideas or purposes.
- Exhibition & reception Including key exhibitions and a description of the role played by critics/publications, galleries/dealers/collector and museums/curators throughout the world active in presenting and/or promoting movement artists’s works. LEGACY or INFLUENCE, if appropriate. This might be considered HISTORY in retrospect
- Commercial status of the movement en masse. If you know the key 2 or 3 artists (who should be in caps) you can infer from art kinfo search
- References May be chronological in line with your research. All sourcing can be done in this section, save for quotes of speakers which should be attributed within the text.
- Use URLs for off-wiki sources of info, standard form for books: Robert Atkins, ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords. New York: Abbeville Press, second edition, 1997.
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