Pevsner

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Pevsner

(ˈpɛvznə)
n
1. (Biography) Antoine (ɑ̃twan). 1886–1962, French constructivist sculptor and painter, born in Russia; brother of Naum Gabo
2. (Biography) Sir Nikolaus (ˈnɪkəlaʊs). 1902–83, British architectural historian, born in Germany: his series Buildings of England (1951–74) describes every structure of account in the country
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The earliest use of the term was in Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner's constructivist Realistic Manifesto (1920), in which they called for a new 'Great Style' in which 'kinetic rhythms' would be used 'as the basic forms of our perception of real time'.
When Herrera and her husband then moved to Paris a decade later (returning to live in New York after five years), she exhibited and published with the Salon des Realites Nouvelles, the legion of international veterans including Jean Arp, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Theo van Doesburg, Auguste Herbin, Antoine Pevsner, and Sophie Taeuber- Arp, many of whom preserved the earlier avant-garde interest in painting's properties as an object in real space even as they loosened abstract painting from its prewar politics.
1927 Serge Lifar in La Chatte by Balanchine; costumes by Nauru Gabo and Antoine Pevsner.
Some of the more important exiles were Antoine Pevsner, Naum Gabo and Alexander Rodchenko.
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