The Shock of the NewAn illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end. |
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... sense the magnitude of such changes . They amounted to the greatest alteration in man's view of the universe since Isaac Newton . The feeling that this was so was widespread . For the essence of the early modernist experience , between ...
... sense the magnitude of such changes . They amounted to the greatest alteration in man's view of the universe since Isaac Newton . The feeling that this was so was widespread . For the essence of the early modernist experience , between ...
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... sense of reality lurking behind its semantic veils , is also the world as glimpsed in Monet's lily - pond ( plate 78 ) . For the pond was as artificial as painting itself . It was flat , as a painting is . What showed on its surface ...
... sense of reality lurking behind its semantic veils , is also the world as glimpsed in Monet's lily - pond ( plate 78 ) . For the pond was as artificial as painting itself . It was flat , as a painting is . What showed on its surface ...
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... sense of irony - necessary condom of the new fin - de - siècle - makes us doubt that the sense of virgin territory that beckoned modernism onwards will be waiting for them . But can we really be so sure ? It is a curious fact of art ...
... sense of irony - necessary condom of the new fin - de - siècle - makes us doubt that the sense of virgin territory that beckoned modernism onwards will be waiting for them . But can we really be so sure ? It is a curious fact of art ...
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