Reinhardt, Ad (1913–1967)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annika Marie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
York City ◽  
Brooklyn College ◽  
Art World ◽  
Abstract Painting ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
New York University ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Color Field Painting ◽  
The 1960S

Ad Reinhardt, the American painter and illustrator-cartoonist, was born in 1913 and raised in New York City. Reinhardt attended Columbia College, pursued graduate studies in Asian art at New York University, and taught art and art history for twenty years at Brooklyn College. As a painter, Reinhardt was committed to pure abstract painting—what he termed "art-as-art." His pursuit of abstraction brought him into contact with the American Abstract Artists in the 1930s, with the Abstract Expressionists in the 1940s, and with Color-field painting and Minimalism in the 1960s. The black square paintings, begun in 1960, are exemplary of his extreme formal reduction. Uniformly five by five feet and matte black, Reinhardt made these monochromatic paintings for the last six years of his life. Reinhardt was also a prolific illustrator and cartoonist. His work appeared in leftist publications such as the New Masses and P.M. and was used in support of political organizations such as the Artists’ Union and the American Artists’ Congress. His later cartoons were often directed at art-world corruption.

Stella, Frank (1936--)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonia Pocock
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Abstract Expressionism ◽  
Jasper Johns ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Color Field Painting ◽  
Mark Rothko ◽  
Color Field ◽  
The 1960S

Frank Stella is a prominent American abstract artist whose deadpan aesthetic presaged Minimalism and Color Field painting. In contrast to the turbulent brushwork and improvisatory methods of Abstract Expressionism, Stella’s groundbreaking Black Paintings (1959) feature uniform surfaces and serial arrangements of forms. Born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, Stella grounded his artistic education in non-objective painting. At the Phillips Academy, he studied with abstractionist Patrick Morgan, a pupil of Hans Hofmann. At Princeton University, he took studio courses with William Seitz, a scholar and practitioner of Abstract Expressionism; and Stephen Greene, an abstract painter and former student of Philip Guston. After graduating from college in 1958, Stella moved to New York City and produced gestural paintings of squares and stripes inspired by Mark Rothko and Jasper Johns. He soon abandoned painterly textures but retained the stripe as his signature motif. Stella’s work of the 1960s continued in the vein of his Black Paintings, but evolved to include metallic and Day-Glo pigments and shaped canvases. After 1970, his paintings assumed sculptural dimensions and incorporated expressionist brushwork and exuberant arabesques. Stella has continued to develop his exploratory practice to the present day.

Polymer Electroluminescent Devices

MRS Bulletin ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Quantum Efficiency ◽  
Operating Voltage ◽  
Organic Crystals ◽  
New York University ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Information Displays ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Bandgap Semiconductors ◽  
The 1960S

Electroluminescence (EL) is the emission of light generated from the radiative recombination of electrons and holes electrically injected into a luminescent semiconductor. Conventional EL devices are made of inorganic direct-bandgap semiconductors, such as GaAs and InGaAs. Recently EL devices based on conjugated organic small molecules and polymers have attracted increasing attention due to easy fabrication of large areas, unlimited choice of colors, and mechanical flexibility. Potential applications of these organic/polymeric EL devices include backlights for displays, alphanumeric displays, and high-density information displays.Electroluminescence from an organic material was first demonstrated in the 1960s on anthracene crystals by Pope et al. at New York University. Subsequently several other groups also observed this phenomenon in organic crystals and thin films. These organic EL devices had high operating voltages and low quantum efficiency. Consequently they did not attract much attention. In 1987 a breakthrough was made by Tang and VanSlyke at Eastman Kodak who found that by using multilayers of sublimated organic molecules, the operating voltage of the organic EL devices was dramatically reduced and the quantum efficiency was significantly enhanced. This discovery touched off a flurry of research activity, especially in Japan. The Japanese researchers, as welt as the group at Kodak, have since improved the device efficiency and lifetime to meet commercial requirements. This progress is reviewed by Tsutsui in this issue.

Performance and Choreography in New York and Beyond (1940–1956) and Jacob’s Pillow (1940s–1970s)

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-202
Author(s):  
Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Regular Feature ◽  
Story Line ◽  
The Third ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 7 begins with information about La Meri’s performances in New York City and on tours—as a soloist and with company members such as her sister Lilian Newcomer, Peter di Falco, Rebecca Harris, and others. The second section introduces what La Meri termed “ethnic ballets,” new works she choreographed (usually with a story line and characters) that incorporated the technique of one of the international dance languages she had studied. Since most audience members were unfamiliar with what they were viewing, explanations were a useful and appreciated addition. Lilian therefore gave introductions to each dance, and this became a regular feature of La Meri’s concerts. The third section covers her involvement in the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival from the 1940s to the 1960s.

A Ptolemaic-Roman Temple Foundation at Tell Timai

2019 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-225
Author(s):  
James E. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
New York University ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

The mission of the University of Hawai’i at Tell Timai in 2009 began excavating the remains of a limestone temple foundation platform in the north-west area of the site. The foundations had been partially recorded in survey work conducted in 1930 by Alexander Langsdorff and Siegfried Schott, and again in the 1960s by New York University, however no known investigations of the structure were conducted. In 2017 as part of an Egypt Exploration Society Fieldwork and Research Grant, excavations were renewed to finalise the understanding of the temple’s construction techniques, and the date of the temple. The foundations were of a casemate design with internal fills of alternating silt and limestone chips. The ceramic evidence from within the construction fills dates its construction from the end of the Ptolemaic to the early Roman Period, and the temple’s superstructure was most likely taken down and the blocks reused in the late Roman Period (fourth to fifth century ce).

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