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The Chicago Imagists are a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, surrealism and complete uninvolvement with New York art world trends. Critic Ken Johnson referred to Chicago Imagism as "the postwar tradition of fantasy-based art making."〔Ken Johnson, "ART IN REVIEW; Ray Yoshida," The New York Times, September 17, 1999〕 Senior ''Chicago'' magazine editor Christine Newman said, "Even with the Beatles and the Vietnam War in the forefront, the artists made their own way, staking out their time, their place, and their work as an unforgettable happening in art history."〔 The Imagists had an unusually high proportion of female artists. There are three distinct groups which outside of Chicago are indiscriminately bundled together as Imagists: The Monster Roster, The Hairy Who, and The Chicago Imagists. ==The Monster Roster== The Monster Roster was a group of Chicago artists, several of whom served in World War II and were able to go to art school thanks to the G.I. Bill. They were given their name in 1959 by critic Franz Schulze, based on their existential, sometimes gruesome, semi-mystical figurative work.〔Richard Vine, "Where the Wild Things Were", ''Art in America'', May 1997, pp. 98-111.〕 Many of them were mentored by Vera Berdich, an influential surrealist printmaker who taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.〔Garret Holg, "Art of the City: The Imagists -- and Beyond" ''Chicago Sun-Times'', Sunday, March 22, 1998, Section B, pp. 1, 14〕 The Monster Roster included: * Don Baum * Cosmo Campoli * George Cohen * Leon Golub * Nancy Spero * H. C. Westermann * June Leaf 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chicago Imagists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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