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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... Max 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 ...
... Max 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 ...
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... Max Ernst , who arrived in Paris in that year with a packet of his Dada collages . Their incongruous meetings of ready - made images , cut from catalogues and magazines , struck the Surrealist writers as Lautréamont applied to art : a ...
... Max Ernst , who arrived in Paris in that year with a packet of his Dada collages . Their incongruous meetings of ready - made images , cut from catalogues and magazines , struck the Surrealist writers as Lautréamont applied to art : a ...
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... Max 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 ...
... Max 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 ...
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