“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
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Nam June Paik (1932–2006) American video art pioneer
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“There are two people in every photograph: the photographer and the viewer”
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) American photographer and environmentalist
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Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) Artist and political activist
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It has to do with kinetic art. Kinetic art has very much to do with the interaction between spectator and art. In the second half of the ’50s, this became a big international movement. When I moved from painting to connections within media, this came through in the first work, which was an exhibition of found cardboard pieces. It was a turning point for me. The world itself, the industrial fabricated world, could stand for the man-made world of art.
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Anish Kapoor (1954) British contemporary artist of Indian birth
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“New media are new languages, their grammar and syntax yet unknown.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
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Isa Genzken (1948) German sculptor
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Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
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Eugene J. Martin (1938–2005) American artist
Direct Art Magazine, "In Memoriam - Eugene James Martin", Fall-Winter 2006,Vol. 13, p. 86, http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist/details.php?id=791 and http://afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=3883