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Definition of Jean Arp
1. Noun. Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of dadaism in Zurich; noted for abstract organic sculptures (1887-1966).
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Literary usage of Jean Arp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sculpture in Rotterdam by Jan van Adrichem, Jelle Bouwhuis, Mariette Dölle (2002)
"... and Jean Arp. Like them his work, with its poetic, biomorphic shapes, refers
to the animal and plant world. The boundary line between abstract and ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"He praises Jean Arp for his sense of immanent orderliness within nature but is
reluctant to suppose that the curvilinear forms which are so predominant in ..."
3. Joseph Csáky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture by Edith Balas (1998)
"He, like Jean Arp at the time and Henry Moore later, conceived sculptures as
natural forms coming to life and in the process of growth. ..."
4. Space and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 by Herman Hertzberger (2000)
"Jean Arp was wrestling with the problem of how to put together the two blocks of
the perfectly smooth wood sculpture he was making so that they would come ..."
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