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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... become , thanks to the painter's obsessive scrutiny , the most analyzed mountain in art . One sees how absolutely ... become less legible as illusion , so does the force of their pictorial language become more ordered . His goal was ...
... become , thanks to the painter's obsessive scrutiny , the most analyzed mountain in art . One sees how absolutely ... become less legible as illusion , so does the force of their pictorial language become more ordered . His goal was ...
Page 267
... become a pop - eyed scrawl , but his beard would be elaborated into a palace of squiggles , impressive and trivial at the same time , while a landscape was reduced to a thick crust of undifferentiated mucky paint , filling the whole ...
... become a pop - eyed scrawl , but his beard would be elaborated into a palace of squiggles , impressive and trivial at the same time , while a landscape was reduced to a thick crust of undifferentiated mucky paint , filling the whole ...
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... become an industry , with a hundred links to museum practice , the market , and the activities of living artists . The lag between work and interpretation shrank to near - zero , and the sheer volume of commentary on new and nominally ...
... become an industry , with a hundred links to museum practice , the market , and the activities of living artists . The lag between work and interpretation shrank to near - zero , and the sheer volume of commentary on new and nominally ...
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