Nikolai M. Kasak papers
name: label: Creator
content: Kasak, Nikolai, 1917-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Nikolai Kasak donated his papers to the Archives in 1977 and 1982.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kasak, Nikolai, 1917-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, sculptor, New York, N.Y. Born in Lushtcha, Russia and took his undergraduate degree in Warsaw. He continued his studies in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts and the the Academy of Fine Arts' School for Advanced Studies in Rome. His early work reveals an expressionistic figurative art which he later relinquished in favor of his own theory of art he called Physical Art. Physical Art is an abstract art which involves the manipulation of positive and negative spaces and geometric configurations.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.4 Linear Feet ((ca. 350 items))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944-1982
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kasaniko
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Biographical information; correspondence; writings; published and unpublished manuscripts by Kasak and others; photographs of art work; printed material; and an inventory of these papers by Kasak.