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Robert Goldwater est un historien d'art américain né à New York en 1907 et mort en 1973. Repères biographiques. Après avoir enseigné au Queens College à New York de 1934 à 1957, il est nommé professeur à l'Université de New York.
Robert Goldwater (November 23, 1907 – March 26, 1973) was an American art historian, African arts scholar and the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York, from 1957 to 1973. He was married to the French artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
One of the first art history graduate students in the United States to study modern art, Robert Goldwater brought renewed attention to the relationship between twentieth-century painting and the arts of Africa, the Americas, and Oceania with his first book, Primitivism in Modern Painting (1938), setting the trajectory for scholarship on the ...
Depuis l’exposition Whatis modern sculpture ? organisée en 1970 au Museum of Modern Art de New York par Robert Goldwater, l’interrogation sur la définition de la sculpture contemporaine revient avec insistance dans le champ de la critique et de l’histoire de l’art.
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(1907–73) American art historian. He was born in New York and studied at Columbia College (BA 1929), Harvard University (MA 1931), and New York University (PhD 1937). From 1934 he held various teaching positions, and in 1957 he became professor of art history at New York University.
Modernist art historian, pioneer African arts scholar and director, Museum of Primitive Art, 1957-63. Goldwater was the son of Sigismund S. Goldwater (1873-1942), an M.D. and visionary commissioner of Hospitals in New York under Mayor La Guardia. Goldwater attended Columbia University, receiving his B. A. in 1929.
