{{Short description|American painter}} {{More footnotes needed|date=May 2008}}
'''Art Brenner''' (1924–2013) was an American abstract sculptor and painter. Born in New York City, he lived and worked in Paris from 1964 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Art Brenner (1924 - 2013)|url=http://peytonwright.com/modern/artists/art-brenner/|publisher=Peyton Wright Gallery|accessdate=3 September 2015}}</ref>
He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Paris, London, Avignon, Barcelona, Brussels, Brest, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Montreal, and Adelaide, Australia.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}
His work is in public collections in France, Spain, and the United States (Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska). He was also the subject of a short CNN film, "An American Sculptor in Paris" (1995). The French government has honored him by inducting him as a "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres", the French equivalent of induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
==Concern with sculptural monumentality and architecture== As a sculptor whose works are frequently large and created for public, architectural settings, Brenner wrote a 1971 article for ''Leonardo'' magazine (MIT Press)<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Brenner |first=Art |date=1971 |title=Concerning Sculpture and Architecture |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1572183 |journal=Leonardo |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=99–107 |doi=10.2307/1572183 |issn=0024-094X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> entitled "Concerning Sculpture and Architecture", in which he observes that "the monumental scale of modern sculpture... has quickly moved sculpture from the private to the public sector, that is toward a renewal of its relation with architecture." He also notes that "It has been argued that modern architecture by its very nature, its functionalism and purity, has little need for sculpture."<ref name=":0" />
Rejecting this analysis, he nevertheless acknowledges that the aesthetic values of modern architecture do require a careful approach to the use of monumental sculpture in conjunction with modern buildings, and that "architects should engage sculptors as essential members of a team".<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{Reflist}} *Art Brenner; Galerie Lucien Durand. ''Art Brenner, Galerie Lucien Durand ... Paris ... du 2 mai au 27 mai 1967 ...'' [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/64070181&referer=brief_results] (Paris, Galerie L. Durand, 1967) {{OCLC|64070181}} *U.S. Centre culturel américain, Paris. ''Trois américains: Art Brenner, Robert Colescott, Elaine Hamilton.- Exposition à Paris, Centre culturel américain, 26 février-26 mars 1969'' [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/38695859&referer=brief_results] [exhibition catalogue in French] (Paris, Centre culturel américain, 1969) {{OCLC|38695859}}
==External links== *[http://www.artbrenner.com official website]
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