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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... Russian empire , not one artist in half a century has enjoyed the minimum freedom that the Dadaists , Expressionists , and Neue Sachlichkeit painters took for granted - the right to interpose one's art , even with no guarantees of ...
... Russian empire , not one artist in half a century has enjoyed the minimum freedom that the Dadaists , Expressionists , and Neue Sachlichkeit painters took for granted - the right to interpose one's art , even with no guarantees of ...
Page 82
... Russia with the advent of the Revolution is plainly absurd . When Russian artists responded to Marinetti and his cult of the machine , they were not doing so as provincials . In fact , they were in much the same position with respect to ...
... Russia with the advent of the Revolution is plainly absurd . When Russian artists responded to Marinetti and his cult of the machine , they were not doing so as provincials . In fact , they were in much the same position with respect to ...
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... Russian avant - garde got , from the embryo State , the patron it needed . He was Anatoly Lunacharsky , Lenin's Commissar of Education . A sensitive and idealistic writer , Lunacharsky had shown what must have struck harder ...
... Russian avant - garde got , from the embryo State , the patron it needed . He was Anatoly Lunacharsky , Lenin's Commissar of Education . A sensitive and idealistic writer , Lunacharsky had shown what must have struck harder ...
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