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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... human body as a specimen , all its privacy brushed aside . Bacon thought there was a strong analogy between the body's various availabilities to inspection , sex , or political coercion . All three evoked different forms of abandonment ...
... human body as a specimen , all its privacy brushed aside . Bacon thought there was a strong analogy between the body's various availabilities to inspection , sex , or political coercion . All three evoked different forms of abandonment ...
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... human figure . The work of Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ) is bound to present its admirers with problems , and these have to do with the nature of Kandinsky's own beliefs . He was , if not the " onlie begetter " of abstract art ...
... human figure . The work of Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ) is bound to present its admirers with problems , and these have to do with the nature of Kandinsky's own beliefs . He was , if not the " onlie begetter " of abstract art ...
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... human feelings to what was not human , rivalled van Gogh's : A cigarette butt lying in the ashtray , a patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street , a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high ...
... human feelings to what was not human , rivalled van Gogh's : A cigarette butt lying in the ashtray , a patient white trouser button looking up from a puddle in the street , a submissive bit of bark that an ant drags through the high ...
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