Word: tamest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should receive a symbolic prize, an impressionist should be given the impression of having received a prize, and an abstractionist should get something more abstract than cash. Yet many seasoned observers joined in being critical: the big show was, as far as the exhibitions were concerned, one of the tamest since the first Venice Biennale, in 1895. The great abstractionists had taken their place in history, and there seemed to be little new to generate a comparable excitement. Thus dealers and collectors were unusually hard put to search out the big names of the future and snap up what they...