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Armand Pierre Arman

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Armand Pierre Arman (1928 - 2005) was active/lived in New York, California / France, Italy. Armand Arman is known for Happenings, assemblage, abstraction.

Armand Pierre Arman, whose birth name was Armand Fernandez, and who goes by the single name of Arman, was born in Nice, France in 1928. His father, an antique dealer and weekend painter, had moved the family from Algeria to southern France. Best known for his 'assemblages' created from found objects, Arman divided his time between France and the United States.

His first exposure to painting was through his father, who gave him art lessons. In 1946, he began his painting study at the Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif in Nice, where he also earned degrees in mathematics and philosophy. There he met artists Claude Pascal and Yves Klein, and together they hitchhiked across Europe. He completed his studies in Nice in 1949, and went on to the Ecole du Louvre, studying oriental art and archaeology.

Some of his first works were in Abstract and Surrealist styles. At a 1954 exhibition in Paris, Arman was impressed with the works of Kurt Schwitters, which i ... [Displaying 1000 of 20866 characters.] Artist bio

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Magazine References: 3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Armand Pierre Arman

Magazine	Article	Date	Author	Color
ARTFORUM	Salons de Refuse: Hannah Feldman on Raymond Hains and Arman	February 2006	Feldman, Hannah	Yes
Art in America	Review of Exhibitions	May 2003	Editors, Art in America	Yes
Art in America	Review of Exhibitions	June 1999	Editors, Art in America	Yes

25 Book References for Armand Pierre Arman

Year	Author	Title	Pages	Color
2005	AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)	The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005	479	No
2005	Davenport, Ray	Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition	2421	No
2004	McGowan, Alison C (Editor)	Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)	1512	No
2002	Shea, Patricia (Editor)	Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection	124	No
1999	Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)	Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes	3724	No
1997	Marquis Who's Who	Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998	1515	No
1996	Wood, James N/T Edelstein	The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture	160	Yes
1995	Lucie-Smith, Edward	Art Today	512	Yes
1993	Bowker R R	Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)	1473	No
1992	Oldenburg, Richard/W Rubin	The William S Paley Collection Museum of Modern Art	180	Yes
1991	Wexner Center, Ohio State U	Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990	310	Yes
1989	Naylor, Colin (editor)	Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)	1059	No
1987	Cummings, Paul	Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)	653	No
1986	Chetham, Charles; David Grose	A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art	312	Yes
1986	Jaques Cattell Press	Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986	1292	No
1985	Krantz, Les	American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans	347	Yes
1984	DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones	The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How	320	No
1984	Lucie-Smith, Edward	Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition	288	Yes
1983	Smith Kramer Art Connections	American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History (Exhibition catalog)	113	Yes
1982	Contemporary Arts Museum	The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)	143	Yes
1979	Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel	Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)	730	No
1977	Barr, Alfred H	Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art	655	No
1977	Ekdahl, Janis	American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources	260	No
1976	Block, Rene	SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen (Exhibition catalog)	431	No
1973	Onn, Gerald (Translator)	Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art	0	No

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