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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... landscape : the plaster cupid , the blue ginger jar , the plain Provençal stoneware , the scroll - sawed kitchen table , the floral rug , the skulls , onions , and peaches . But then , step outside ! No modern artist except van Gogh so ...
... landscape : the plaster cupid , the blue ginger jar , the plain Provençal stoneware , the scroll - sawed kitchen table , the floral rug , the skulls , onions , and peaches . But then , step outside ! No modern artist except van Gogh so ...
Page 273
... landscape , near and far , thus avoiding the narcissistic thinning out of the world that goes with shallow Expressionism . Few drawings in the history of landscape have the richness of surface that van Gogh gave to his Provençal ...
... landscape , near and far , thus avoiding the narcissistic thinning out of the world that goes with shallow Expressionism . Few drawings in the history of landscape have the richness of surface that van Gogh gave to his Provençal ...
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... landscape as transcendental . We have already seen some of the background to the " new American painting , " as it came to be called , in Chapter 5 : the impact of Surrealism , the interest in myth and primitive art , the concern with ...
... landscape as transcendental . We have already seen some of the background to the " new American painting , " as it came to be called , in Chapter 5 : the impact of Surrealism , the interest in myth and primitive art , the concern with ...
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