Chicago Imagists (Group of artists)

found: Work cat.: Renaissance Society website, Dec. 16, 2010(exhibition entitled "Drawings of the Chicago Imagists" (1987); The Chicago Imagists emerged in the late 1960s in a series of exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center that either shocked or excited their audiences, but were never ignored.)

found: AAT, Dec. 16, 2010(Chicago Imagist: Refers to the work of a group of artists working in Chicago in the post-1945 era, who gained national recognition in 1959 after an exhibition in New York where they were labeled the "Monster School." In the 1960s, the group became more coherent and exhibited as the "Hairy Who." The style is preoccupied with sexual fantasies and aggression toward authority figures, often incorporating images from comic strips and other print media.)

found: Wikipedia, Dec. 16, 2010(Chicago Imagists: The Chicago Imagists is the name of a group of representational artists associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in the late 1960s. Their work was known for grotesquerie, surrealism and complete uninvolvement with New York art world trends ... There are three distinct groups which outside of Chicago are indiscriminately bundled together as Imagists: The Monster Roster, The Hairy Who, and The Chicago Imagists.)