1. Meyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian who developed new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works.
21 Facts About Meyer Schapiro
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Meir Meyer Schapiro was born in Siauliai, Lithuania on September 23,1904.
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Meyer Schapiro grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where he was first exposed to art in evening classes taught by John Sloan at the Hebrew Educational Society.
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Meyer Schapiro attended Public School 84 and then Boys High School in Brooklyn.
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Meyer Schapiro attended lectures on anthropology and economics at the Young People's Socialist League.
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In 1920, Meyer Schapiro entered Columbia University as a 16-year-old Pulitzer and Regents scholar.
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Meyer Schapiro's professors included Mark Van Doren and Franz Boas.
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Dr Meyer Schapiro's research went far beyond the implications of Moissac itself.
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Meyer Schapiro lectured at New York University, the New School for Social Research, Harvard University as the Charles Norton Lecturer and Oxford University as Slade Professor of Art.
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Meyer Schapiro was a visiting lecturer at the College de France in Paris in May 1974.
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Meyer Schapiro was a proponent of modern art, on which he published essays alongside books on Van Gogh and Cezanne.
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Meyer Schapiro was a founder of Dissent, along with Irving Howe and Michael Harrington.
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Meyer Schapiro said style refers to the formal qualities and visual characteristics of a piece of art, and demonstrated it could be used as an identifier of a particular period and as a diagnostic tool.
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Meyer Schapiro died in 1996 in New York at the age of 91 in the Greenwich Village house where he had lived since 1933.
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Meyer Schapiro was, at points in his career, criticized for his approach to style because of its politically radical connotations.
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Meyer Schapiro wrote scholarly articles for a variety of socialist publications and endeavored to apply a novel Marxist method to the study of art history.
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Meyer Schapiro was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Philosophical Society.
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In 1973, Meyer Schapiro received an award by the Art Dealers Association of America.
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In 1975, Meyer Schapiro received the Alexander Hamilton Medal for distinguished service and accomplishment by the alumni of Columbia University.
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In 1995, Meyer Schapiro received a special award for lifetime achievement from the College Art Association at its 83rd annual conference in San Antonio, Texas.
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In 1987, Meyer Schapiro exhibited 65 drawings and paintings from 1919 to 1979 in the Wallach Art Gallery in Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia.