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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... Seen from the first platform it corkscrewed around its own axis , and seen from the top it collapsed into itself , doing the splits , its neck pulled in .... Delaunay must have painted the Tower thirty times , and he was almost the only ...
... Seen from the first platform it corkscrewed around its own axis , and seen from the top it collapsed into itself , doing the splits , its neck pulled in .... Delaunay must have painted the Tower thirty times , and he was almost the only ...
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... seen on a visit to Paris in 1913. Picasso's constructed sculptures of 1912 , especially the Guitar ( plate 51 ) , were the most radical change in sculpture since the invention of bronze - casting : for the first time , the emphasis ...
... seen on a visit to Paris in 1913. Picasso's constructed sculptures of 1912 , especially the Guitar ( plate 51 ) , were the most radical change in sculpture since the invention of bronze - casting : for the first time , the emphasis ...
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... seen , it served as a still , enigmatic centre to the turmoil of Pop it had helped provoke . In Johns , the fifties artist - imagined as " hot , " expressive , and tragic , the Romantic culture hero as evoked by Harold Rosenberg - was ...
... seen , it served as a still , enigmatic centre to the turmoil of Pop it had helped provoke . In Johns , the fifties artist - imagined as " hot , " expressive , and tragic , the Romantic culture hero as evoked by Harold Rosenberg - was ...
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