Word: hartung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung or Alfred Manessier in the face of what Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning were doing...
There have been reports of worrisome weapons deployment by American clients. William Hartung, author of a recent book on the U.S. weapons trade, says American arms are playing a role in 39 of the globe's 48 conflicts. The U.S. in 1990 halted exports of F-16s to Pakistan, but not before Islamabad may have secretly modified some to deliver its handful of nuclear weapons. A Senate committee recently noted it had received reports "that U.S. military equipment, including helicopters, has been used in attacks against civilians in southeastern Turkey." Turkey, a NATO ally, denies it has attacked its Kurdish...