Zeroist

English

Etymology

From Zero-61, a Polish photography collective in the 1960s.

Noun

Zeroist (plural Zeroists)

1. A member of the artistic movement that grew out of Zero-61, which rejected past influences in an attempt to produce fresh new works.
   • 1968, Roy McMullen, Art, Affluence, and Alienation: The Fine Arts Today, page 76:

     The critic-historian begins confidently with Symbolism and Naturalism, and soon finds himself involved with Expressionism, Imagism, Futurism, Ultraism, Dada, Trans-sense, Vorticism, Surrealism, Functionalism, Social Realism, the New Apocalypse, the Movement, New Romantics, Beats, Angries, Renascents, Projectivists, Lettrists, Concretists, Zeroists, and their rivals and splinters.

   • 1969, Art and Artists - Volume 4, Issues 7-12, page 22:

     For very young artists today the achievements of the Zeroists stimulated a renewed interest in Mondrian and De Stijl. For too long there had been no trace of De Stijl's influence in Dutch art.

   • 2005, Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography:

     […] to mix photography with other mediums points to the multiplicity of their artistic practice; some were practicing painters, while others went on to create more conceptually-based work. The Zeroists' transgressions of their medium and of tradition […]

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