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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... emblem of this " beautiful fruit , " this suffusing energy that simultaneously irradiated all objects , was the disc ... emblems of newness ( Tower , radio telegraphy , aviation ) are swept together into a paean to the man he called ...
... emblem of this " beautiful fruit , " this suffusing energy that simultaneously irradiated all objects , was the disc ... emblems of newness ( Tower , radio telegraphy , aviation ) are swept together into a paean to the man he called ...
Page 163
... emblems of the rich life . Why not Camel packets instead of imported Gauloises ? Why does the matchbook cover have to come from La Crémaillère in Greenwich , and the chocolate wrapper be Suchard instead of , say , a Hershey bar ? Such ...
... emblems of the rich life . Why not Camel packets instead of imported Gauloises ? Why does the matchbook cover have to come from La Crémaillère in Greenwich , and the chocolate wrapper be Suchard instead of , say , a Hershey bar ? Such ...
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... emblems or abstractions , was to chalk up a victory for the spirit - even when the worship of God , the original stake in this battle , had been replaced as in Expressionism by the cult of the imperious Ego . Brancusi ignored ...
... emblems or abstractions , was to chalk up a victory for the spirit - even when the worship of God , the original stake in this battle , had been replaced as in Expressionism by the cult of the imperious Ego . Brancusi ignored ...
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