27th Venice Biennale explained

Genre:	Art exhibition
Prev:	26th Venice Biennale (1952)
Begins:	1954
Ends:	1954
Next:	28th Venice Biennale (1956)
Location:	Venice
Country:	Italy

The 27th Venice Biennale, held in 1954, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 31 participating nations. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Winners of the Gran Premi (Grand Prize) included German painter Max Ernst, French sculptor Jean Arp, Spanish etcher Joan Miró, and Italians painter Giuseppe Santomaso, sculptor Pericle Fazzini, and etcher Paolo Manaresi ex aequo with Cesco Magnolato.

Bibliography

• Book: Di Martino . Enzo . The History of the Venice Biennale 1895–2005 . 2005 . en . 978-88-901104-4-3 . Papiro Arte . Venice . 62237064 .

Further reading

• Clarac-Sérou . M. . 28th Venice biennale . Arts Digest . 28 . 6–8 . August 1954.
• Cooper . Douglas . Reflections on the Venice Biennale . Burlington Magazine . 96 . 619 . 316–322 . October 1954 . 00076287.
• Denvir . Bernard . Mayfair to Manhattan . Artist . 48 . 35 . November 1954 . 00043877.
• Denvir . Bernard . 2 . Courbet at the biennale . . 134 . 114–115 . November 1954 . 00106275.
• Eliot . A. . Under the four winds . . 63 . 74–77 . 1954-06-28 . 0040781X.
• Five Americans for biennale . . 28 . 33 . 1954-04-15.
• Frankfurter . A. . European speculations: modern art and Marco Polo . . 53 . 18 . September 1954 . 00043273.
• Hodin . Josef Paul . Venice biennale . Contemporary Review . 186 . 227–230 . October 1954 . 00107565.
• Hubbard . Robert Hamilton . Show window of the arts—XXVII Venice biennale . . 12 . 1 . 14 . 1954-01-04 . 08253854.
• Keller . Heinz . XXVII. biennale, Giardini, Venedig . Werk . 41 . 189–191 . August 1954 . de . 00432768.
• Kern . Walter . Anmerkungen zur XXVII. biennale in Venedig . Werk . 41 . 335–340 . August 1954 . de . 00432768.
• Melville . R. . Venice biennale . Architectural Review . 116 . 189–191 . September 1954 . 0003861X.
• Pohl . Frances K. . An American in Venice: Ben Shahn and United States Foreign Policy at the 1954 Venice Biennale or Portrait of the Artist as an American Liberal . Art History . 4 . 1 . 80–113 . March 1981 . 10.1111/j.1467-8365.1981.tb00698.x . 01416790 .
• Taubes . F. . What is the world painting today? . . 19 . 34 . February 1955 . 00027375.
• Vallier . Dora . La XXVIIe biennale de Venise . . 29 . 1 . 109–115 . January 1954 . fr.