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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... abstract Tiepolo , all airy blue space and incisive " drawing , " than a message from the Abstract Sublime . Yet in the atmospheric space of his " all - over " paintings , in their lavish eddyings of energy and the seemingly unbounded ...
... abstract Tiepolo , all airy blue space and incisive " drawing , " than a message from the Abstract Sublime . Yet in the atmospheric space of his " all - over " paintings , in their lavish eddyings of energy and the seemingly unbounded ...
Page 389
... abstract or figurative , stylistically experimental or conservative . " And there were certainly other abstract painters of whom it could be said . One was Bridget Riley ( b . 1931 ) . The swelling , wavelike surfaces of her new work ...
... abstract or figurative , stylistically experimental or conservative . " And there were certainly other abstract painters of whom it could be said . One was Bridget Riley ( b . 1931 ) . The swelling , wavelike surfaces of her new work ...
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... abstract curtain - wall office - block- as the virtuous uniform of de - Nazification . Beuys broke this bind . His gift for taking conventionally repellent materials and socially abhorrent memories and converting them , as by a ...
... abstract curtain - wall office - block- as the virtuous uniform of de - Nazification . Beuys broke this bind . His gift for taking conventionally repellent materials and socially abhorrent memories and converting them , as by a ...
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