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Hackney Flashers

Hackney Flashers was a women’s arts collective active between 1974 and 1980. Most of the group were photographers and defined …

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Happening

Happenings were theatrical events created by artists in the late 1950s and early 1960s

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Hard edge painting

Hard edge painting is an approach to abstract painting that became widespread in the 1960s and is characterized by areas …

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Heidelberg School

The Heidelberg School was a late nineteenth century art movement named after the village of Heidelberg in Australia where a …

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Hi-Red Center

Hi-Red Center was a short-lived radical art collective that emerged in post-war Japan and was active between 1963 and 1964

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History painting

The term history painting was introduced in the seventeenth century to describe paintings with subject matter drawn from classical history …

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Hudson River school

Hudson River school is the collective name given to a number of nineteenth century North American landscape painters who depicted …

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Hyper-realism

The term hyper-realism appeared in the early 1970s to describe a resurgence of particularly high fidelity realism in sculpture and …