A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes provides intelligence and information unavailable anywhere else about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali, Johan Cruyff, and the Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his native New York City.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• A
• Abish, Walter
• Abrahamsen, Hans
• Abramovic, Marina
• Abstract Expressionism
• Abstract Film
• Abstract Graphic Narrative
• Abstract Music
• Abstraction
• Absurd, Theater of the
• Academic Critics
• Acconci, Vito
• Acker, Kathy
• Acoherence
• Action Painting
• Adorno, Theodor
• Affirmative Action
• African Art
• Afterimage
• Agam, Yaacov
• Albers, Anni
• Albers, Josef
• Albert-Birot, Pierre
• Albright, Ivan
• Aleatory Music
• Ali, Muhammad
• Allen, Woody
• Alternative Spaces
• Ambient Music
• American Abstract Artists
• American Academy of Arts and Letters/National Institute of Arts and Letters
• American Religious Art
• Anarchist Art
• Anderson, Laurie
• Andre, Carl
• Anger, Kenneth
• Animated Film
• Ant Farm
• Antheil, George
• Anthologies (of the Avant-Garde)
• Antonakos, Stephen
• Antrobus, John
• Apollinaire, Guillaume
• Appia, Adolphe
• Appropriation
• Arakawa
• Archigram
• Archipenko, Alexander
• Arditti Quartet
• Arensberg, Walter & Louise
• Arias-Misson, Alain
• Armajani, Siah
• Arman
• Armando
• Armitage, Merle
• Armory Show
• Armstrong, Louis
• Arneson, Robert
• Arp, Jean/Hans
• Ars Electronica
• Art Povera, L'Art Contemporain, Art Informel, Art Brut, Art Autre, Superrealism, New Esthetic, Art of the Real, Transavantgarde, Neo-Geo, Unexpressionism, Etc.
• Art Research Center (A.R.C.)
• Art World
• Artaud, Antonin
• Artforum
• Artists’ Books
• Artists’ Colonies
• Artists’ Soho
• Artmann, H. C.
• Ashbery, John
• Asher, Michael
• Aspen
• Assemblage
• Assembling
• Atlas Press
• Atonality
• Attie, Dotty
• Audacity
• Auden, W. H.
• Audio Art
• Audio-Video Tapes
• Audubon, John James
• Auerbach, Erich
• Aura
• Austin, Larry
• Autobiographies
• Autograph
• Avery, Tex
• Aygi, Gennady
• Ayler, Albert
• B
• Babbitt, Milton
• Bach, Johann Sebastian
• Bach, P.D.Q.
• Baer, Jo
• Balanchine, George
• Baldessari, John
• Ball, Hugo
• Balla, Giacomo
• Banksy
• Barlow, Clarence
• Barnes, Djuna
• Barnett, Peter H.
• Barowitz, Elliott
• Barron, Susan
• Barry, Iris
• Barsamian, Gregory
• Barth, John
• Barthelme, Donald
• Barthes, Roland
• Bartók, Béla
• Bartleby & Co
• Bartlett, Jennifer
• Barzun, Henri-Martin
• Baseball Cards
• Baudelaire, Charles
• Baudrillard, Jean
• Bauhaus
• Bausch, Pina
• The Beatles
• Bebop
• Beck, Stephen
• Beckett, Samuel
• Beiderbecke, Bix
• Bell Labs
• Benchley, Robert
• Benjamin, Walter
• Bennett, John M.
• Berberian, Cathy
• Berio, Luciano
• Berkeley, Busby
• Berlin
• Berlin Wall/Die Mauer
• Berners, Lord
• Berra, Yogi
• Berry, Jake
• Bertoia, Harry
• Beuys, Joseph
• Bidlo, Mike
• Biennials
• Bierce, Ambrose
• Bill, Max
• Billings, William
• Biographies
• Birthrights
• Bissett, Bill
• Bitzer, Billy
• Bjarnason, Ingibjörg
• Black Mountain College
• Blaine, Julien
• Blake, William
• Blanc, Mel
• Blanco, Juan
• Blast
• Blom, August
• Blueprint for a Counter Education
• Blum, Eberhard
• Boccioni, Umberto
• Bodin, Lars-Gunnar
• Body Art
• Böhm, Hartmut
• Bök, Christian
• Bolotowsky, Ilya
• Bonset, I. K.
• Bontecou, Lee
• Book-Art
• Boretz, Benjamin
• Borges, Jorge Luis
• Borglum, Gutzon
• Borgmann, Dmitri
• Bory, Jean-François
• Boulez, Pierre
• Bourgeois, Louise
• Braak, Menno Ter
• Bradshaw, Dove
• Braithwaite, W. S.
• Brakhage, Stan
• Brancusi, Constantin
• Brandt, Henry
• Braxton, Anthony
• Bread and Puppet Theater
• Brecht, George
• Brecht, Stefan
• Breton, André
• Britannica, Encyclopedia
• Broodthaers, Marcel
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Brown, Bob
• Brown, Charles Brockden
• Brown, Earle
• Brown, Robert Delford
• Brown, Trisha
• Bruce, Neely
• Bruce, Patrick Henry
• Bruno, Guido
• Bryars, Gavin
• Bryher
• Buñuel, Luis
• Burchfield, Charles
• Burckhardt, Rudy
• Burden, Chris
• Burgess, Anthony
• Burgess, Gelett
• Burke, Kenneth
• Burliuk, David
• Burroughs, William S.
• Burson, Nancy
• Burstnorm Poetry
• Busoni, Ferruccio
• Bute, Mary Ellen
• Butoh
• Butor, Michel
• Butterworth, Michael
• C
• Cabaret Voltaire
• Cage, John
• Cahun, Claude
• Cal Arts
• Calder, Alexander
• Caldiero, A. F.
• Callahan, Michael
• Calvino, Italo
• Camini, Aldo
• Canada Council
• Cappa Marinetti, Benedetta
• Cardew, Cornelius
• Carlos, Wendy
• Carlson, Chester
• Carpenter, Edmund
• Carrillo, Julián
• Carrión, Ulises
• Carroll, Lewis
• Carter, Elliott
• Cartoons (Film)
• Casements
• Cassavetes, John
• Casseres, Benjamin De
• Castelli, Leo
• Castle, James
• Celebrity
• Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
• Cendrars, Blaise
• Cercle Et Carré
• Chadabe, Joel
• Chagall, Marc
• Chamberlain, John
• Charlip, Remy
• Chicago, Judy
• Chicherin, Aleksei Nikolaevich
• Childs, Lucinda
• Chirico, Giorgio De
• Chopin, Henri
• Christmas Truce
• Christo
• Chumps
• Cinemascope
• Cinerama
• Cirque De Soleil
• Citroen, Paul
• Čiurlionis, Mikalojus
• Clair, René
• Close, Chuck
• Coburn, Alvin Langdon
• Cocteau, Jean
• Coleman, Ornette
• Collage
• Collectors, Avant-Garde
• Colombo, John Robert
• Colon, Fleury
• Color-Field Painting
• Coltrane, John
• Combinatoriality
• Combine
• Comedians’ Comedians
• Comedy
• Competition
• Computer
• Computer Poetry
• Conceptual Architecture
• Conceptual Art
• Conceptual Dance
• Concrete Poetry
• Concretism
• Conduits, Dissemenators?
• Constructivism
• Copland, Aaron
• Coplans, John
• Copy Culture
• Cornell, Joseph
• Correspondence
• Corrigan, Donald
• Cortázar, Julio
• Counterculture
• Countertenors
• Courage
• Cowell, Henry
• Cragg, Tony
• Craig, Gordon
• Cravan, Arthur
• Creshevsky, Noah
• Critic X
• Critical Imagination
• Crockwell, Douglass
• Crotti, Jean
• Crumb, R.
• Cruyff, Johan
• Cubism
• Cubo-Futurism
• Cuddon, J. A.
• Cultural Leaders
• “Culture Wars”
• Cummings, E. E.
• Cunningham, Merce
• Curry, Jw
• Cybernetics
• Cyberpoetry
• D
• Daad Berliner Kunstlerprogramm
• Dachy, Marc
• Dada
• Dali, Salvador
• Damon, S. Foster
• Danto, Arthur
• Davis, R. G.
• Davis, Stuart
• Dawkins, Daryl
• De Andrea, John
• De Kooning, Willem
• De Maria, Walter
• De Stijl
• Dean, Laura
• Defamiliarization
• Delany, Samuel R.
• Delaunay, Robert
• Delaunay, Sonia
• Dellschau, Charles A. A.
• Delluc, Louis
• Denby, Edwin
• Depero, Fortunato
• Der Blau Reiter
• Der Sturm
• Deren, Maya
• Dermisache, Mirtha
• Derrida, Jacques
• De Zayas, Marius
• Di Suvero, Mark
• Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich
• The Dial
• Digital
• Digital Archives
• Diller, Burgoyne
• Disney, Walt
• Disneyland (1955)/Disney World (C. 1971)
• Documentary Archivists
• Dodecaphonic Music
• Donaueschingen Festival
• Donen, Stanley
• Doria, Charles
• Dorner, Alexander
• Double Dutch
• Dove, Arthur
• “Downtown”
• Doyle, Tom
• Dreier, Katherine S.
• Du Perron, Edgar
• Dubuffet, Jean
• Duchamp, Marcel
• Duchamp Literature
• Duchamp, Suzanne, Raymond (-Villon), Jacques Villon
• Dufrêne, François
• Duguay, Raôul
• Duncan, Isadora
• Duncan, Robert
• Dymshits-Tolstoya, Sof'ya
• E
• E-Zine
• Eames, Charles and Ray
• Earth Art
• Eastman, George
• Eco, Umberto
• Edgerton, Harold
• Edison, Thomas
• Eighth Street Club
• Einstein, Carl
• Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich
• Eisler, Hanns
• El Hanani, Jacob
• El Teatro Campesino
• Eldridge, Aethelred
• Electro-Acoustic Music
• Electronic Books
• Electronic Music
• Eliot, T. S.
• Éluard, Paul
• Emojis
• Emshwiller, Ed
• English Literature, Post-World War II
• Eno, Brian
• Environment
• Erdman, Jean
• Ernst, Max
• Escher, M. C.
• Essaying (Alternative)
• Esthetics
• Europera
• Exercices De Style
• Exhaustion
• Expanded Publishing
• Expo 67 (Montreal)
• Expressionism
• Exter, Alexandra
• F
• The Fab Five
• Fakes
• Falkenberg, Paul
• Fantasia
• Fanzine
• Farber, Manny
• Faulkner, William
• Fauves
• Federman, Raymond
• Feininger, Lyonel
• Feldman, Morton
• Fellini, Frederico
• Feminism
• Fénéon, Félix
• Fenollosa, Ernest
• Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
• Ferriss, Hugh
• Film Scripts
• Finch, Peter
• Fink, Don
• Finnegans Wake
• Fiorillo, Dante
• Fire!!
• Fischinger, Oskar
• Fitzsimmons, James A.
• Flair
• Flavin, Dan
• Fleischer, Dave and Max
• Fluxus
• Flynt, Henry
• Fontana, Lucio
• Ford, Charles Henri
• Foregrounding
• Foreman, Richard
• Form(S), Distinguished
• Formalists, Russian
• Forti, Simone
• Fosbury, Dick
• Found Art
• Found Poetry
• The Four Horsemen
• Fourteenth Street
• Fractal Geometry
• Framing
• Francis, Linda
• Frank, Peter
• Frankenthaler, Helen
• Frecon, Suzan
• Freedom of Information Act
• Freud, Sigmund
• Freundlich, Otto
• Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa Van
• Friedman, Ken
• Frogthink
• Frye, Northrop
• Fuller, Buckminster
• Fuller, Loïe
• Furniture Music
• Furnival, John
• Futurism (Italian)
• Futurism (Russian)
• Futurist Music
• G
• Gabo, Naum
• Galton, Francis
• Gance, Abel
• Gangemi, Kenneth
• Gardner, Martin
• Gaudí, Antoni
• Gender
• Gershwin, George
• Gerz, Jochen
• Gesamtkunstwerk
• Gestures, Significant
• Gianakos, Cristos
• Giedions
• Gilbert and George
• Gillespie, Abraham Lincoln
• Gins, Madeline
• Ginsberg, Allen
• Glarner, Fritz
• Glass, Philip
• Glaugnea
• Gober, Robert
• Godard, Jean-Luc
• Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
• Goff, Bruce
• Goffman, Erving
• Golberg, Mécislas
• Goldberg, Rube
• Goldsworthy, Andy
• Goll, Iwan
• Gombrich, E. H.
• Gómez De La Serna, Ramón
• Gomringer, Eugen
• González, Julio
• Gorey, Edward
• Gorgeous George
• Gormley, Antony
• Gould, Glenn
• Gould, Joe
• Graham, Dan
• Graham, Martha
• Grahn, Judy
• Graphic Narrative
• Graphic Notation
• Gray, Eileen
• Green, Paul
• Greenberg, Clement
• Greenfield, Amy
• Griffith, D. W.
• Griffiths, Paul
• Grögerová, Bohumila
• Gross, Milt
• Grotowski, Jerzy
• Grumman, Bob
• Guerilla Theater
• Guerrilla Girls
• Guggenheim Foundation
• Guggenheim, Peggy
• Gutai Art Association
• H
• Haacke, Hans
• Hába, Alois
• Haldeman-Julius, E.
• Halley, Peter
• Halprin, Anna
• Halprin, Lawrence
• Hamilton, Richard
• Hamilton Finlay, Ian
• Hammid, Alexander
• Handicaps/Disadvantages
• Happening
• Hard-Edge Abstraction
• Harlem Globetrotters
• Hartley, Marsden
• Hartmann, Sadakichi
• The Hasty Papers
• Hausmann, Raoul
• Heartfield, John
• Heidsieck, Bernard
• Heilig, Morton
• Heiss, Alanna
• Heissenbüttel, Helmut
• Heizer, Michael
• Held, Al
• Helms, Hans G.
• Henry, Pierre
• Hepworth, Barbara
• Herriman, George
• Herschkowitz, Filipp Moiseevich
• Hertzberg, Hendrik
• Hesse, Eva
• Hicks, Edward
• Hicks, Michael
• Higgins, Dick
• High Red Center
• Highwater, Jamake
• Hijikata, Tatsumi
• Hirsal, Josef
• Hirsch, Sidney Mttron
• Histories (Of Avant-Garde Arts)
• Höch, Hannah
• Hockney, David
• Hoddis, Jacob Van
• Hoffman, Abbie
• Hofmann, Mark
• Holography
• Holzer, Jenny
• Home, Stewart
• Home Theater
• Hörspiel
• Houdini, Harry
• Houédard, Dom Sylvester
• House of Wax
• Howe, Anthony
• Hpschd
• Huelsenbeck, Richard
• Hughes, Patrick
• Hugo, Ian
• Hultén, Pontus
• Huneker, James Gibbons
• Hutchins, Robert Maynard
• Huth, Geof
• Hypertext
• I
• Iannone, Dorothy
• Iceland
• Identity/Biography
• Iliazd
• Imax
• Impressionism (Musical)
• Improvisation
• Inaudible Music
• Incomprehensible Critical Prose
• Indeterminacy
• Indiana, Robert
• Infraverbal Poetry
• Installation
• Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA)
• Integrity
• Intellectual History
• Intentions
• Intelligence
• Intermedia
• International Style
• Internet
• Internet Art
• Internet Poetry
• Ionesco, Eugene
• Ircam
• Ireland, Patrick
• Irony (Extreme)
• Irving, Clifford
• Irwin, Robert
• Itten, Johannes
• Ives, Charles
• Iwerks, Ub
• J
• Jackson, Martha K.
• Jakobson, Roman
• Janco, Marcel
• Janecek, Gerald
• Jargon
• Jarry, Alfred
• Jazz
• Jean, Marcel
• Jewish Art
• Johns, Jasper
• Johnson, B. S.
• Johnson, Ray
• Johnson, Samuel
• Johnson, Sarah East
• Jolas, Eugene
• Jones, Bill T.
• Jones, Chuck
• Jones, Spike
• Joplin, Scott
• Joshua Light Show
• Joyce, James
• Joyce, Michael
• Judd, Donald
• Judson Dance Theater
• K
• Kabakov(s), Ilya & Emilia
• Kac, Eduardo
• Kagel, Mauricio
• Kalman, Tibor
• Kandinsky, Wassily
• Kaplan, Carter
• Kaprow, Allan
• Kasper, Michael
• Katue, Kitasono
• Kaufman, Andy
• Kawara, On
• Keaton, Buster
• Kees, Weldon
• Keilty, James
• Kelly, Ellsworth
• Kelly, Robert
• Kempton, Karl
• Kenner, Hugh
• Kentridge, William
• Kerouac, Jack
• Kervinen, Jukka-Pekka
• Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali
• Khan, Ustad Bismillah
• Kharms, Daniil
• Khlebnikov, Velimir
• Kienholz, Edward
• Kiesler, Frederick
• Kinetic Art
• King, Kenneth
• King, Philip
• Kipper Kids
• Kirby, Michael
• Kirk (Rahsaan), Roland
• Kirstein, Lincoln
• Kitaj, R.B.
• Klein, William
• Klein, Yves
• Kline, Franz
• Klutcis, Gustav
• Knoebel, David
• Knowles, Alison
• Koch, Kenneth
• Kolάř, Jiří
• Komar & Melamid
• Konstriktor, Boris
• Koolhaas, Rem
• Koons, Jeff
• Koppány, Márton
• Kostelanetz, Andre
• Kostelanetz, Richard
• Kosuth, Joseph
• Kotik, Petr
• Kovacs, Ernie
• Krasner, Lee
• Kraus, Karl
• Křenek, Ernst
• Kriwet, Ferdinand
• Kronos Quartet
• Kruchenykh, Aleksei
• Krueger, Myron W.
• Kubrick, Stanley
• Kuenstler, Frank
• Kunsthalle
• Kupferberg, Tuli
• Kupka, František
• Kurtzman, Harvey
• Kuryokhin, Sergey
• Kuzminsky, Konstantin
• L
• L-Train
• La Gran Scena Opera Co.
• Lacerba
• Laffoley, Paul
• Lafrance, Noemie
• The Land
• Land, Edwin
• Las Vegas
• Lautréamont, Comte De
• Lawrence, T. E.
• Lax, Robert
• Le Corbusier
• Lear, Edward
• Léger, Fernand
• Lehrer, Warren
• Lennon, John
• Lenticular
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
• Lettrism
• Levine, Les
• Levine, Sherrie
• Levy, Julien
• Lewis, Wyndham
• Lewitt, Sol
• Li Yuan-Chia
• Liberature
• Lichtenstein, Roy
• Ligeti, György
• Light Art
• Lindsay, Vachel
• Lippard, Lucy R.
• Lissitzky, EL
• Little Magazines
• Living Theatre
• Loft Living
• Lombardi, Mark
• Long, Richard
• Louis, Morris
• Louis, Murray
• Love
• Lozowick, Louis
• Ludlam, Charles
• Lye, Len
• M
• Mac Low, Jackson
• Macdiarmid, Hugh
• MacDonald-Wright, Stanton
• Maciunas, George
• MacIver, Loren
• MacKaye, Steele
• Mad Magazine
• Magritte, René
• Mail Art
• Malaparte, Curzio
• Malevich, Kazimir
• Mallarmé, Stéphane
• Man Ray
• Manzoni, Piero
• Mapplethorpe, Robert
• Marching Bands (HBCU)
• Marclay, Christian
• Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso
• Marisol
• Marketing
• Martin, Agnes
• Marx Brothers
• Masereel, Frans
• Mason, Alice Trumbull
• Mathematical Poetry
• Mathews, Harry
• Matisse, Henri
• Matta, Roberto
• Matta-Clark, Gordon
• Matyushin, Mikhail
• Maximal Art
• Mayakovsky, Vladimir
• Mayer, Hansjörg, Edition
• Mayo
• McCaffery, Larry
• McCaffery, Steve
• McCay, Winsor
• McLaughlin, John
• McLuhan, Marshall
• Mechanical Theater
• Meegeren, Han Van
• Mekas, Jonas
• Méliès, Georges
• Melville, Herman
• Mencken, H. L.
• Merton, Thomas
• Merz
• Messiaen, Olivier
• Meteors
• Metric Modulation
• Metzger, Gustav
• Meyerhold, Vsevolod
• Michals, Duane
• Michaux, Henri
• Micropress
• Microtonality
• Mies Van Der Rohe, Ludwig
• Miller, Henry
• Milligan, Spike
• Minimal Music
• Minimalism
• Mixed-Means Theater
• Mnatsakanova, Elizaveta Arkadievna
• Modern Music
• Modernism
• Modigliani, Amadeo
• Modular Music
• Moholy-Nagy, Lászió
• Mohr, Manfred
• Mon, Franz
• Monastyrsky, Andrey
• Mondrian, Piet
• Monk, Meredith
• Monk, Thelonious Sphere
• Montmartre
• Montparnasse
• Moog, Robert
• Moore, Henry
• Moorman, Charlotte
• Morellet, François
• Morgan, Edwin
• Morgenstern, Christian
• Morice, Dave
• Morpurgo, Nelson
• Morris, George L. K.
• Morris, Robert
• Morse, Samuel F. B.
• Moscow Conceptualism
• Moscow Subway Stations
• Mosolov, Alexander
• Moss, David
• Mostel, Raphael
• Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company
• Motherwell, Robert
• Mühsam, Erich
• Mullen, Harryette
• Multicultural
• Multitracking
• Murayama, Tomoyoshi
• Museum of Modern Art
• Musique Concrète
• Muybridge, Eadweard
• N
• Nabokov, Vladimir
• Nakian, Reuben
• Narrative
• Narrative Painting
• Nash, David
• Nash, Ogden
• National Endowment for The Arts
• Nauman, Bruce
• Negro Spirituals
• Nekrasov, Vsevolod
• Nelson, Ted
• Neo-Plasticism
• Neon
• Nevelson, Louise
• Nevinson, C. R. W.
• New Directions
• New York City
• New York School, School of Paris, Black Mountain Poets, Etc.
• Newman, Barnett
• Newspaper Reviewers
• Nichol, BP
• Nicholas Brothers
• Nikolais, Alwin
• Nikonova, Rea
• 1912
• 1980S
• Ninth Street Show
• Noguchi, Isamu
• “Nonsense”
• Norton Professor
• “Not Art”
• Nothing
• Novellas
• Novels
• Nude Descending a Staircase
• Nyman, Michael
• O
• Oates, Joyce Carol
• Oberiu
• O'brien, Flann
• Obscurity
• Ockerse, Tom
• O'doherty, Brian
• Office of War Information/Strategic Services
• Ohno, Kazuo
• O'keeffe, Georgia
• Oldenburg, Claes
• Oliveros, Pauline
• Olson, Charles
• On-Demand Printing
• Ono, Yoko
• OP Art
• Operas (Puppet/Radio/Film/ Television)
• “Original Instruments”
• Ornstein, Leo
• O'rourke, P.J.
• Orozco, José Clemente
• Orwell, George
• Ossorio, Alfonso
• Ostaijen, Paul Van
• Otoliths
• Otterness, Tom
• Oulipo
• Outsider Art
• Overload
• Oxbridge
• Ozenfant, AMéDéE
• P
• Paganini, Nicolò
• Pageants
• Paglen, Trevor
• Paik, Nam June
• Pandiatonicism
• Paolozzi, Eduardo
• Paradigm Shift
• Parker, Charlie
• Pärt, Arvo
• Partch, Harry
• Pastior, Oscar
• ‘Pataphysics
• Patchen, Kenneth
• Pattern Poetry
• Patterson, Clayton
• Paxton, Steve
• Pell, Derek
• Penderecki, Krzysztof
• Penn & Teller
• Perec, Georges
• Pereira, I. Rice
• Performance
• Performance Group
• Performance Studies
• Pessoa, Fernando
• Phelps, Donald
• Phillips, Tom
• Photography
• Photomontage
• Picabia, Francis
• Picasso, Pablo
• Pietri, Pedro
• Piscator, Erwin
• Pistoletto, Michelangelo
• Plagiarism
• Pluralism
• Poesia Vivisa
• Poetism
• Political Art
• Political Correctness
• Polkinhorn, Harry
• Pollock, Jackson
• Polyartist
• Pop Art
• Popova, Liubov
• Porter, Bern
• Porter, Edwin S.
• Portsmouth Sinfonia
• Posada, José Guadalupe
• Possibilities
• “Postmodern”
• Potamkin, Harry Alan
• Pound, Ezra
• Powell, Michael
• Power, J. W.
• Praecisio
• Prepared Piano
• Prince, Richard
• Prizes
• Professor X
• Projection Television
• Proust, Marcel
• Pseudonyms
• Psychedelic Art
• Punk Rock
• Pwoermd
• Pynchon, Thomas
• Q
• Queneau, Raymond
• Quin, Ann
• R
• Radio Art
• Rainer, Yvonne
• Rand, Paul
• Randall, J. K.
• Rauschenberg, Robert
• Read, Herbert
• Readymade
• Recalling
• Reich, Steve
• Reineck, Gay Beste
• Reinhard, Johnny
• Reinhardt, AD
• Reiniger, Lotte
• Retrograde
• Rexroth, Kenneth
• Rhoads, George
• Richier, Germaine
• Richter, Hans
• Rickey, George
• Riding, Laura
• Riefenstahl, Leni
• Riley, Bridget
• Riley, Terry
• Rimbaud, Arthur
• Rivera, Diego
• Roché, Henri-Pierre
• Roche, Juliette
• Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
• Rodia, Simon
• Rosenberg, Harold
• Roszak, Theodore
• Roth, Dieter
• Rothko, Mark
• Roussel, Raymond
• Royal College of Art/Academy of Music
• Rubinstein, Lev Semenovich
• Ruggles, Carl
• Ruscha, Edward
• Russell, Morgan
• Russian Formalists
• Russolo, Luigi
• Ruttmann, Walter
• Ruutsalo, Eino
• Ryman, Robert
• Rzewski, Frederic
• S
• Sacher, Paul
• Safdie, Moshe
• Saint-Phalle, Nikki DE
• Salzman, Eric
• Samaras, Lucas
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