Boris Lurie

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Boris Lurie
BornJuly 18, 1924
Leningrad, Soviet Union
DiedJanuary 7, 2008
New York City, US
Resting placeHaifa, Israel
NationalityRussian-American
OccupationArtist

Boris Lurie (July 18, 1924 – January 7, 2008) was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the

Holocaust
, has frequently irritated critics and curators.

Though he lived as a penniless artist, Lurie amassed $80 million by buying penny stocks and real estate which was used on August 8, 2009, to create the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.[1]

Early life

Lurie was born in

Nazis in the Rumbula massacre
.

In 1946 he immigrated to New York and began his career as an artist. For a short time he attended the

Holocaust-related imagery, as well as the novel House of Anita[3] (released in a 2016 edition with texts and commentary by Terence Sellers), a large memoir entitled "In Riga" (published in 2019), and scores of poetry, collected in the volume Geschriebigtes - Gedichtigtes: NO!art in Buchenwald (2003) [4]

NO!art Movement

The art market is nothing but a racket.
—Boris Lurie[1]

In 1960, with Sam Goodman and

pop-art that celebrates consumerism and to decorative "salon art" such as abstract expressionism. Lurie's art and the NO!Art movement were largely ignored by the establishment, by part for Boris Lurie abominated established artists like Andy Warhol, and in 1970 Lurie wrote his critique "MOMA as Manipulator."[citation needed] One of the movement's earliest champions was the Italian art dealer, Arturo Schwarz.[5]

Pieces by Lurie are now contained in the permanent collections of the

Whitney Museum of American Art
(NYC).

In 2002, Amikam Goldman completed a documentary on Boris Lurie entitled No!Art Man, which was premiered at the Anthology Film Archives with Mr. Lurie present.

Lurie's art has found more resonance in Germany than in the United States. Germany saw two large exhibitions of his work in 1995 and 2004. A documentary, Shoah and Pin-Ups: The NO!-Artist Boris Lurie, was shown on German TV in 2007.

On January 7, 2008, Lurie died from kidney failure, days after having suffered a stroke. At age 83, he was the last surviving founder of the NO!Art movement. He is buried in Hof Hacarmel cemetery in Haifa, Israel.[6]

Since 1999, the NO!Art Movement has been led by Dietmar Kirves in its Berlin headquarters, and Clayton Patterson in its New York headquarters.[7]

Sources

Further reading

  • NO! art. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin 1995,
    ISBN 3-926796-38-3
    .
  • Boris Lurie and NO!art. Max Liljefors, Lund, Sweden, 2003
  • The Artist as Provocateur. David H. Katz, London, 2005
  • Boris Lurie. Sold, Museo Vostell Malpartida, 2014,
    ISBN 978-1-4951-1100-6
    .
  • Keine Kompromisse! Die Kunst des Boris Lurie. Kerber Verlag, 2016.
    ISBN 978-3-7356-0195-7
    .
  • Boris Lurie. Anti-Pop. Neues Museum Nürnberg, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien 2017,
    ISBN 978-3-903153-52-3
    .
  • Boris Lurie in Habana. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Boris Lurie Art Foundation New York 2017,
    ISBN 978-0-692911-45-7
    .

References

  1. ^ a b CENTURY, DOUGLAS (April 2010). "SAYING YES TO NO!". ART News. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2011-07-04.
  2. ^ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photograph Number: 74604
  3. ^ House of Anita (2016)
  4. ^ Geschriebigtes - Gedichtigtes: NO!Art in Buchenwald. Zu der Ausstellung in der Gedenkstätte Weimar-Buchenwald von Boris Lurie. (2003)
  5. ^ "Look Ma, No ... Sculpture", The Realist, November 1964
  6. ^ "Biography" Boris Lurie, Boris Lurie Art Foundation, 2017
  7. ^ "Official Website". Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2011-04-01.

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