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Dictionary definition: New Generation
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- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
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New Generation.
The title of four exhibitions, sponsored by the Peter Stuyvesant ‘tobacco company’ Foundation, held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1968, with the aim of introducing young British painters and sculptors to the public.
Op
and
Pop art
were well represented, but the series is best remembered for the 1965 exhibition, which featured a group of sculptors who were seen as creating a new school of British abstract sculpture, largely under the influence of
Anthony ...