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 80
... cultural chauvinism . Weimar culture wanted to address a broad audience , directly and with constructive , economical means ; Paris culture had Art Deco , the last luxury style based on the elegant display of surplus labour in ...
... cultural chauvinism . Weimar culture wanted to address a broad audience , directly and with constructive , economical means ; Paris culture had Art Deco , the last luxury style based on the elegant display of surplus labour in ...
Page 324
... culture of congestion : of cities and mass media . We are crammed like battery hens with stimuli , and what seems significant is not the quality or meaning of the messages , but their excess . Overload has changed our art . Especially ...
... culture of congestion : of cities and mass media . We are crammed like battery hens with stimuli , and what seems significant is not the quality or meaning of the messages , but their excess . Overload has changed our art . Especially ...
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... culture environment ; and that defence , in the sixties , became more arduous than it had ever been for American artists before . One would have thought the stage was set for Pop art in America in the 1950s . Certainly the materials ...
... culture environment ; and that defence , in the sixties , became more arduous than it had ever been for American artists before . One would have thought the stage was set for Pop art in America in the 1950s . Certainly the materials ...
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