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 81
... Russian empire , not one artist in half a century has enjoyed the minimum freedom that the Dadaists , Expressionists , and Neue Sachlichkeit painters took for granted - the right to interpose one's art , even with no guarantees of ...
... Russian empire , not one artist in half a century has enjoyed the minimum freedom that the Dadaists , Expressionists , and Neue Sachlichkeit painters took for granted - the right to interpose one's art , even with no guarantees of ...
Page 82
... Russia with the advent of the Revolution is plainly absurd . When Russian artists responded to Marinetti and his cult of the machine , they were not doing so as provincials . In fact , they were in much the same position with respect to ...
... Russia with the advent of the Revolution is plainly absurd . When Russian artists responded to Marinetti and his cult of the machine , they were not doing so as provincials . In fact , they were in much the same position with respect to ...
Page 87
... Russian avant - garde got , from the embryo State , the patron it needed . He was Anatoly Lunacharsky , Lenin's Commissar of Education . A sensitive and idealistic writer , Lunacharsky had shown what must have struck harder ...
... Russian avant - garde got , from the embryo State , the patron it needed . He was Anatoly Lunacharsky , Lenin's Commissar of Education . A sensitive and idealistic writer , Lunacharsky had shown what must have struck harder ...
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