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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... Corbusier , thought otherwise . He called New York a tragic hedgehog . He hated its contrasts , the moral and social distances between the street and the spire ; he loathed its mediaeval dirt , the insuperable and souk - like muddle ...
... Corbusier , thought otherwise . He called New York a tragic hedgehog . He hated its contrasts , the moral and social distances between the street and the spire ; he loathed its mediaeval dirt , the insuperable and souk - like muddle ...
Page 165
... Corbusier's aphorisms in the early twenties , when Europe was torn by radical unrest , was " architecture or revolution , " as though all the impulses towards social violence came down to errors of housing . ( Nevertheless , Corbusier's ...
... Corbusier's aphorisms in the early twenties , when Europe was torn by radical unrest , was " architecture or revolution , " as though all the impulses towards social violence came down to errors of housing . ( Nevertheless , Corbusier's ...
Page 190
... Corbusier could dismiss most of Paris ' historical deposit as a dry crust of junk is the measure of his fervour ... Corbusier's particular enemy was the street , and on it he waged unremitting ( if , mercifully , verbal ) war . The idea ...
... Corbusier could dismiss most of Paris ' historical deposit as a dry crust of junk is the measure of his fervour ... Corbusier's particular enemy was the street , and on it he waged unremitting ( if , mercifully , verbal ) war . The idea ...
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