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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Page 175
... fantasy . It was identified with Promethean democracy all ' Americana , and in this Sullivan himself heartily concurred : " With me , " he remarked , " architecture is not an art , but a religion , and that religion but a part of ...
... fantasy . It was identified with Promethean democracy all ' Americana , and in this Sullivan himself heartily concurred : " With me , " he remarked , " architecture is not an art , but a religion , and that religion but a part of ...
Page 271
... fantasy , not a Provençal fact . On the other hand , one can walk in the olive groves outside the asylum walls and measure the way he changed them , resolving the form of the dry grasses and the flickering blue shadows on them into ...
... fantasy , not a Provençal fact . On the other hand , one can walk in the olive groves outside the asylum walls and measure the way he changed them , resolving the form of the dry grasses and the flickering blue shadows on them into ...
Page 299
... fantasy as old as Christianity itself : the Millennium , when Christ would come to earth for the second time , win a final victory over Satan , and establish a span of perfect earthly justice lasting one thousand years . Among the ...
... fantasy as old as Christianity itself : the Millennium , when Christ would come to earth for the second time , win a final victory over Satan , and establish a span of perfect earthly justice lasting one thousand years . Among the ...
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