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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... imagined as a benevolent colossus , planted with spread legs in the middle of Paris . It also referred to the greatest permanent festive structure of the seventeenth century , Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona ...
... imagined as a benevolent colossus , planted with spread legs in the middle of Paris . It also referred to the greatest permanent festive structure of the seventeenth century , Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona ...
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... imagined a vast " Tower of Joy , " with a flattened dome above a circular glazed assembly hall and , rising from that , embedded in what looks like a glacier - fall of ruby stained glass , a glass - faced shaft , star - shaped in plan ...
... imagined a vast " Tower of Joy , " with a flattened dome above a circular glazed assembly hall and , rising from that , embedded in what looks like a glacier - fall of ruby stained glass , a glass - faced shaft , star - shaped in plan ...
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... imagined centres . A sign dictates meaning , a work of art takes one through the process of discovering meaning . In short , paintings educate but signs discipline ; mass language always tends to speak in the imperative voice . The idea ...
... imagined centres . A sign dictates meaning , a work of art takes one through the process of discovering meaning . In short , paintings educate but signs discipline ; mass language always tends to speak in the imperative voice . The idea ...
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