At a seminar given a few years ago in NYC by a major dealer in these areas,
who was addressing professional art/artifact appraisers, the speaker
literally defined contemporary as living artists and once they die they
become classified as modern.

Nancy Powell
former registrar of CIGNA corporate museum and art collection


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Date: Friday, December 01, 2000 5:52 PM
Subject: Definitions?


>I am a perspective art history student in need of some answers and know
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>one of you can assist me.  Could one of you art historians, curators, or
>anthropologists please tell me the definitions or similarities of Modern
Art
>and Contemporary Art?  Please reply off the list.
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