Talk:Robert M. Coates

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1. Abstract Expressionist New York,” at the Museum of Modern Art, a grand decanting from the museum’s holdings that commands nearly all of the fourth floor as well as the print and drawing galleries on the second and third floors. The post-Second World War, made-in-America artistic revolution was a very, very serious affair.Its name, having been coined in Germany in 1919 to describe works by Wassily Kandinsky, was borrowed and put in play in the United States in 1946, by The New Yorker’s art critic, Robert Coates.
2. The term ‘Abstract Expressionism’ was coined in 1946 by an art critic called Robert Coates, to describe a group of New York artists who were fusing two different styles.
3. More than sixty years have passed since the critic Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term “Abstract Expressionism” to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann...Modernist (talk) 19:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Stop making stuff up. If the term was "coined in Germany in 1919 to describe works by Wassily Kandinsky", per refernce 1 above (and per abstract expressionism, it wasn't coined twenty-seven years later by an American critic. And if Coates first used it "to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann" per reference 3, he didn't first use it to describe different named painters, as your text states without any legitimate sourcing. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 10:38, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What is your problem? LEARN HOW TO READ!...Modernist (talk) 11:03, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- My "problem" is an editor who denies the obvious, deliberately makes false charges of vandalism, and refuses to engage in substantive discussion. My statement above accurately reflects the content of the majority of the references you cite. "Coined in Germany in 1919" plainly is not synonymous with "coined in 1946 by an art critic called Robert Coates", and only a dishonest poltroon would say so. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006. (talk) 17:42, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Are you totally insane? Read the quotes listed above - #s 1,2,3. taken directly from the references. It's time for you to DROP THE STICK WP:STICK...Modernist (talk) 23:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography[edit]

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 06:34, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dates of New Yorker issues for stories[edit]

I just discovered that many (if not all) of the dates for the issues in which Coates's stories appear--taken from the New Yorker's own website!--are off by at least a couple of days. It will take a while to fix this, but I will try to get back to this eventually. Krimp Varkey (talk) 10:20, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]