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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... seemed to be in a state of utter convulsion . Did cultural turmoil predict social tumult ? Many people thought so then ; today we are not so sure , but that is because we live at the end of modernism , whereas they were alive at its ...
... seemed to be in a state of utter convulsion . Did cultural turmoil predict social tumult ? Many people thought so then ; today we are not so sure , but that is because we live at the end of modernism , whereas they were alive at its ...
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... seemed to hang in the air . Their colour seemed to have gone over the top edge of decorum , especially when heightened with patches of coloured glitter . Not long afterwards , the short - lived vogue for graffiti would release floods of ...
... seemed to hang in the air . Their colour seemed to have gone over the top edge of decorum , especially when heightened with patches of coloured glitter . Not long afterwards , the short - lived vogue for graffiti would release floods of ...
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... seemed . Every greenmailer became his own Lorenzo . Hollywood producers who until the eighties had been minding their traditional business , which was to drench the airwaves with glitz and muck , now blossomed forth with private museums ...
... seemed . Every greenmailer became his own Lorenzo . Hollywood producers who until the eighties had been minding their traditional business , which was to drench the airwaves with glitz and muck , now blossomed forth with private museums ...
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