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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... Brancusi's work has been the victim of myth . It was de rigueur to see him as a seer or worker - priest – a phallic old peasant , bearded like Moses , floured in holy white dust , creating elemental images in a state of grace that was ...
... Brancusi's work has been the victim of myth . It was de rigueur to see him as a seer or worker - priest – a phallic old peasant , bearded like Moses , floured in holy white dust , creating elemental images in a state of grace that was ...
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... Brancusi Bird in Space 1925 Polished bronze 75 × 524 × 61 ins Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris ( plate 209 ) . A polished bronze egg -. 209 Constantin Brancusi The Beginning 211 Georgia O'Keeffe Light Coming on the Plains III 1917.
... Brancusi Bird in Space 1925 Polished bronze 75 × 524 × 61 ins Musée National d'Art Moderne , Paris ( plate 209 ) . A polished bronze egg -. 209 Constantin Brancusi The Beginning 211 Georgia O'Keeffe Light Coming on the Plains III 1917.
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... Brancusi's repeated sign for dreaming - contemplates itself , as it were , in the polished disc on which it lies , like a cell adrift in the primal salt sea . Brancusi's love of solidity lent itself to feelings of repose , dream , and ...
... Brancusi's repeated sign for dreaming - contemplates itself , as it were , in the polished disc on which it lies , like a cell adrift in the primal salt sea . Brancusi's love of solidity lent itself to feelings of repose , dream , and ...
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