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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... sculpture , off the canvas , including the hills in the distance behind the palm trees . And indeed , within a few years Picasso would be turning this predilection into real sculpture , so commencing a parallel career as the most ...
... sculpture , off the canvas , including the hills in the distance behind the palm trees . And indeed , within a few years Picasso would be turning this predilection into real sculpture , so commencing a parallel career as the most ...
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... sculpture since the invention of bronze - casting : for the first time , the emphasis shifted from mass to plane , from the lump to the cell , from sculpture as closed volume to sculpture as open assembly . Margit Rowell has pointed out ...
... sculpture since the invention of bronze - casting : for the first time , the emphasis shifted from mass to plane , from the lump to the cell , from sculpture as closed volume to sculpture as open assembly . Margit Rowell has pointed out ...
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... sculpture ) were one root of his art . Another was tribal sculpture from Africa . A third was machine technology , with its polished and regular shapes . And so in Brancusi's sculpture , the " primitive " and folkloric encountered a ...
... sculpture ) were one root of his art . Another was tribal sculpture from Africa . A third was machine technology , with its polished and regular shapes . And so in Brancusi's sculpture , the " primitive " and folkloric encountered a ...
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