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Dan Flavin

1933 - 1996

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Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Flavin has received more than 401,179 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Dan Flavin is the 132nd most popular sculptor (down from 92nd in 2019), the 3,560th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,660th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Sculptor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Dan Flavin ranks 132 out of 258. Before him are Carl Milles, Auguste Clésinger, Nicolas Coustou, Silvio Gazzaniga, Antun Augustinčić, and Benedetto da Maiano. After him are Henri Laurens, Emmanuel Frémiet, Cephisodotus the Younger, Johan Tobias Sergel, Clara Westhoff, and James Pradier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Dan Flavin ranks 184. Before him are Humberto Maschio, Yevgeny Khrunov, William Anders, Paul de Senneville, Louis Farrakhan, and Eddie Adams. After him are Isao Iwabuchi, Juan Marsé, Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, Josef Kadraba, Allen J. Bard, and Toshi Ichiyanagi. Among people deceased in 1996, Dan Flavin ranks 123. Before him are Edison Denisov, Hyman Minsky, Chas Chandler, Jerry Siegel, Ljuba Welitsch, and Aruna Asaf Ali. After him are Pierre Grimal, Tito Okello, Arleigh Burke, Hervé Bazin, José Donoso, and Max Manus.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Flavin ranks 3,560 out of 20,380. Before him are Dolley Madison (1768), Kamehameha V (1830), William Wallace Campbell (1862), Kate Jackson (1948), Bobby Jones (1902), and David Ogden Stiers (1942). After him are Edmond O'Brien (1915), Diana Hyland (1936), Shirley Knight (1936), Ray Wise (1947), Marcian Hoff (1937), and Jeff Buckley (1966).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Dan Flavin ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Calder (1898), Robert Smithson (1938), Isamu Noguchi (1904), and Robert Morris (1931). After him are Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), Walter De Maria (1935), Jacob Epstein (1880), Dennis Oppenheim (1938), Audrey Munson (1891), Edmonia Lewis (1844), and Duane Hanson (1925).

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