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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... Ernst . Some of Ernst's early Dada collages are astonishing revelations of dread , and perhaps none conveys it with more intensity than his Murdering Airplane , 1920 ( plate 38 ) . Hovering above the flat horizon , which is the shell ...
... Ernst . Some of Ernst's early Dada collages are astonishing revelations of dread , and perhaps none conveys it with more intensity than his Murdering Airplane , 1920 ( plate 38 ) . Hovering above the flat horizon , which is the shell ...
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... Ernst , a waddling animal . Its topknot obviously comes from de Chirico's assemblies of drafting instruments , and its title ( according to Ernst's lifelong friend , the leader of the English Surrealist group , Roland Penrose ) was ...
... Ernst , a waddling animal . Its topknot obviously comes from de Chirico's assemblies of drafting instruments , and its title ( according to Ernst's lifelong friend , the leader of the English Surrealist group , Roland Penrose ) was ...
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... Ernst began his valediction to Europe , which he finished in America two years later : Europe After the Rain , 1940-2 ( plate 177 ) , a panorama of a fungoid landscape seen as though in the aftermath of an annihilating , biblical deluge ...
... Ernst began his valediction to Europe , which he finished in America two years later : Europe After the Rain , 1940-2 ( plate 177 ) , a panorama of a fungoid landscape seen as though in the aftermath of an annihilating , biblical deluge ...
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