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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... 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 revolutionaries as a ...
... 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 revolutionaries as a ...
Page 372
... avant - garde myth had held the artist to be a precursor ; the significant work is the one that prepares the future . The cult of the precursor ended by cluttering the landscape with absurd prophetic claims . The idea of a cultural avant - ...
... avant - garde myth had held the artist to be a precursor ; the significant work is the one that prepares the future . The cult of the precursor ended by cluttering the landscape with absurd prophetic claims . The idea of a cultural avant - ...
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... Avant - Garde : France , 1830-1880 " , in Avant - Garde Art , ed . Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery . New York : Macmillan , 1968 . Nochlin , Linda Realism . London : Penguin Books , 1971 . Novak , Barbara Nature and Culture : American ...
... Avant - Garde : France , 1830-1880 " , in Avant - Garde Art , ed . Thomas B. Hess and John Ashbery . New York : Macmillan , 1968 . Nochlin , Linda Realism . London : Penguin Books , 1971 . Novak , Barbara Nature and Culture : American ...
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