The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 61
... Dadaists still believed , as many artists at the time did , in the power of art to " save mankind ” from political abominations ; the central myth of the traditional avant - garde , that by changing the order of language , art could ...
... Dadaists still believed , as many artists at the time did , in the power of art to " save mankind ” from political abominations ; the central myth of the traditional avant - garde , that by changing the order of language , art could ...
Page 68
... Dadaists . The self or the void ; ecstasy or chaos ; such was the Expressionist choice . The German Dadaists thought otherwise . They laughed at the inwardness of Expressionism , its habit of describing every event in terms of the ...
... Dadaists . The self or the void ; ecstasy or chaos ; such was the Expressionist choice . The German Dadaists thought otherwise . They laughed at the inwardness of Expressionism , its habit of describing every event in terms of the ...
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... Dadaists in the early twenties was a woman , Hannah Höch ( b . 1889 ) . Working on a small scale and almost never for reproduction , Höch laid forth in her photomontages an acrid , edgy vision , the figures adroitly deformed by cutting ...
... Dadaists in the early twenties was a woman , Hannah Höch ( b . 1889 ) . Working on a small scale and almost never for reproduction , Höch laid forth in her photomontages an acrid , edgy vision , the figures adroitly deformed by cutting ...
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