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Biography |
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1928 |
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Birth |
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1951 |
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Diploma in Fine Arts, University of London |
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1951 |
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Abbey (Rome) Scholarship |
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1952 - 1954 |
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Lecturer in Art History, Camberwell School of Art, London |
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1956 - 1959 |
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Fellow in Fine Art, University of Nottingham |
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1959 - 1961 |
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Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund, NewYork |
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1961 - 1965 |
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Lecturer in Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, London |
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1965 - 1968 |
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Visitor, Slade School of Fine Art, London |
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1965 - 1968 |
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Departmental Visitor, Coventry College of Art |
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1968 - 1969 |
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Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego |
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1969 - 1971 |
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Professor and Chairman, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego |
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1973 |
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Visiting Professor, Art Department, UC Berkeley |
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1973 - 1975 |
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Visiting Scholar, Computer Science Department, (Artificial Intelligence Lab) Stanford University |
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1984 |
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Visiting Andrew Mellon Professor of Computer Art and Research Fellow of the Robotics Lab, Carnegie-Mellon University |
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1984 |
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Artist in Residence, Ontario Science Center |
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1971 - 1994 |
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Professor, Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego |
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1992 - 1998 |
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Director, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, UC San Diego |
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1994 - 2008 |
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Emeritus Professor, UC San Diego |
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Harold Cohen studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, and taught there for several years before joining the Visual Arts Department in 1968. His work as a painter has been exhibited widely both in galleries and in major museums. During the sixties he represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale, Documenta 3, the Paris Biennale, the Carnegie International and many other important international shows. He exhibited regularly at the Robert Fraser Gallery in London and the Alan Stone Gallery in New York. |
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After moving to San Diego, Cohen became interested in computer programming and particularly in the field of artificial intelligence. On the basis of his early research he was invited, in 1971, to spend two years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Stanford University as a Guest Scholar. Much of his work since that time has been concerned with building a machine-based simulation of the cognitive processes underlying the human act of drawing. The resulting ongoing program, AARON, has by now been seen producing original "freehand" drawings in museums and science centres in the US, Europe and Japan: the Los Angeles County Museum, Documenta-6, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Brooklyn Museum, the Tate Gallery in London and the IBM Gallery in New York among others. He has also exhibited in a number of science centers, including the Ontario Science Centre, Pittsburgh's Buhl Centre, the Science Museum in Boston and the California Museum of Science and Technology. He has a permanent exhibit in the Computer Museum in Boston, and he represented the US in the Japan World Fair in Tsukuba in 1985. |
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Exhibitions |
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2007 |
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“Original Print Fair” Royal Academy, London |
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2007 |
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“AARON’s Garden” New Digital Works by Harold Cohen, Pacific Beach Public Library (solo) |
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2007 |
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“AARON’s World” New Digital Works by Harold Cohen, Gallery Antonio Prates, Lisbon (solo) |
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2007 |
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“Harold Cohen/AARON” Large-scale Digital Works by Harold Cohen, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (solo) |
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2006 |
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“20th Century Computer Art: Beginnings and Developments. The Work and Thought of Pioneers and Contemporary Practitioners of Algorithmic Art” Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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2005 |
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“BIOART” Antonio Prates Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal |
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2004 |
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“Untouched by Hand” New Digital Prints by Harold Cohen, Pacific Beach Public Library (solo) |
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2004 |
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ARTWARE3 International, Lima, Peru |
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2003 |
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“Digital Prints” San Diego Central Library |
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2002 |
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“A Good Impression: A Century of Print-making in San Diego” San Diego Museum of Art |
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1999 |
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“Harold Cohen” South-Western College Gallery, Chula Vista (solo) |
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1994 |
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“Harold Cohen” The Computer Museum, Boston (solo) |
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1989 |
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Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago |
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1989 |
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Center for Science and Industry, Columbus |
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1989 |
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"Alternate Applications: Computer Technology in the Arts" Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UCSC |
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1989 |
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"Meet the Al" HARP Exhibition, Tokyo |
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1988 |
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Science Museum of Minnesota |
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1988 |
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"Digital Visions" The IBM Gallery of Art and Science, NYC |
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1988 |
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"UCSD Faculty Art '88" Mandeville Art Gallery, UCSD |
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1988 |
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Discovery Place, Charlotte NC |
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1988 |
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Museum of Science and History |
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1988 |
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California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles |
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1987 |
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"Smart Machines" Boston Computer Museum |
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1987 |
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"Computers and Art" The Everson Museum, Syracuse |
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1987 |
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"Robots and Beyond: The Age of Intelligent Machines" The Boston Museum of Science |
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1987 |
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The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia |
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1986 |
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"Taking Liberty" Exhibition of Images of the Statue of Liberty, New York State Museum |
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1984 |
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“Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition”, UCSD |
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1984 |
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"The Machine as a Young Artist" Ontario Science Center, Toronto |
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1984 |
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“Harold Cohen” Buhl Science Center, Pittsburgh (solo) |
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1983 |
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“Harold Cohen” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (solo) |
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1983 |
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"Harold Cohen" Tate Gallery, London (solo) |
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1983 |
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"Harold Cohen" National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (solo) |
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1983 |
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"Harold Cohen" The Brooklyn Museum, New York (solo) |
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1981 - 1983 |
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"Mapped Art" University of Colorado Art Gallery: University of Texas Art Gallery, Austin |
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1981 - 1983 |
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Arkansas Arts Center |
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1981 - 1983 |
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Toledo Museum of Art |
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1982 |
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"Harold Cohen" Cordova Museum, Lincon, Mass (solo) |
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1980 |
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"Images of Ourselves" Tate Gallery, London |
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1980 |
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"Faculty Exhibition, UCSD |
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1980 |
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"The Kelpra Studio: Artists' Prints 1961-80" Tate Gallery, London |
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1980 |
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"Master Weavers - Tapestry from the Dovecot Studios" Edinburgh Festival |
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1980 |
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"Landscape: The Printmaker's View" Tate Gallery, London |
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1980 |
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"Black and White American Drawing, 1970-80" Brooklyn Museum, NY |
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1978 - 1979 |
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"Harold Cohen: Drawings" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (solo) |
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1978 - 1979 |
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"Harold Cohen: An Artist's Use of the Computer" Arts Council Great Britain Exhibition Tour (solo) |
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1977 |
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"Harold Cohen" Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo) |
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1977 |
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"Artists at Curwen" Tate Gallery, London |
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1977 |
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“Drawing Invitational Exhibition”, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego |
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1977 |
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“Documenta 6”, Kassel, Germany |
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1976 |
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“Faculty Exhibition”, UCSD |
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1976 |
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Retrospective Exhibition, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh (solo) |
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1974 |
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"New Drawings" The Art Gallery, Sacramento State University (solo) |
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1974 |
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"Drawings by Hand/Drawings by Machine" The Art Department Gallery, UC Berkeley (solo) |
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1974 |
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"Contributors Exhibition", International Sculpture Conference, Lawrence Kansas |
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1973 |
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"Machine Generated Images" La Jolla Museum (solo) |
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1972 |
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The Art Gallery, San Diego State College (solo) |
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1972 |
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"Three Behaviors for the Partitioning of Space" Los Angeles County Museum (solo) |
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1972 |
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"Computer Art", Oberlin College. Faculty Exhibition, UC San Diego |
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1971 |
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"A Computer-controlled Drawing Machine" Fall Joint Computer Conference (solo) |
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1970 |
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"Recent Prints by Some British Painters and Sculptors", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
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1970 |
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"2nd British International Print Biennale", Bradford City Art Gallery |
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1970 |
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"White Paintings", La Jolla Museum |
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1970 |
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"Small Works", UCSD. Art Gallery |
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1970 |
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"Prints from the KELPRA Studio", Hayward Gallery, London |
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Literature |
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1983 |
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"Harold Cohen" Catalogue essay for Tate exhibition catalogue, Michael Compton, Keeper of Art, Tate Gallery |
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1966 |
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"Harold Cohen" Catalogue Introduction for Venice Biennale, David Thompson |
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1965 |
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"Harold Cohen" Catalogue Introduction for Whitechapel Gallery Retrospective of Harold Cohen, Bryan Robertson |
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"On Harold Cohen's Drawings" Andrew Forge |
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