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Peter Nagy

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Peter Nagy (Born 1959) is active/lives in Indiana, New York.  Peter Nagy is known for Abstract industrial, sculptor, pop art, conceptualism.

By most accounts the artist Peter Nagy was one of the few intellectuals of the notoriously anti-intellectual East Village scene of the mid-1980s in New York City. With Canadian artist Alan Becher, he cofounded Nature Morte, which along with Meyer Vaisman's International With Monument was one of the few galleries at that time that specialized in conceptualist, Post-Modernist work.

His own art -- graphic museum floor plans marked with corporate logos -- perfectly articulated the period's awareness of the corporate capture of culture. Then, after a few shows in SoHo, which were notable for applying a kind of black-and-white Ben-Day "cancer" to Pop imagery, Nagy grew his hair long and moved to India.

Many firsthand observers of the 80s art scene cite first and foremost the sheer numbers of young artists attempting to break into the gallery scene during the decade. The postwar baby boom, which peaked in 1959, led to an outpouring of art-school grads in the e   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1978 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Peter Nagy

   Publications  Book References:  8
Magazine References:  2

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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Peter Nagy
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Infotainment: Thomas Lawson on Medi October 2004 Lawson, Thomas Yes
Art in America Report from Berkeley: Queering July 1995 Duncan, Michael Yes
8 Book References for Peter Nagy
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
1999 Kirwin, Elizabeth Seton It's All True: Imagining New York's East Village Art Scene of the 1980s 916 No
1996 Deitch, Jeffrey The Dakis Joannou Collection 302 Yes
1990 Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel Word As Image American Art 1960-1990
(Exhibition catalog)		 172 Yes
1990 Gustafson, Donna (others) Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1984 Kardon, Janet The East Village Scene
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1984 Plous, Phyllis/Mary Looker Neo York Report on a Phenomenon
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
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