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 9
... modernist laboratory is now vacant . It has become less an arena for significant experiment and more like a period room in a museum , a historical space that we can enter , look at , but no longer be part of . In art , we are at the end ...
... modernist laboratory is now vacant . It has become less an arena for significant experiment and more like a period room in a museum , a historical space that we can enter , look at , but no longer be part of . In art , we are at the end ...
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... modernism of le style Pompidou . It is still there , only in pockets : the glass and iron city of small arcades , the ... modernist hope . Léger believed , as one cannot imagine Braque doing , that he could make images of the machine age ...
... modernism of le style Pompidou . It is still there , only in pockets : the glass and iron city of small arcades , the ... modernist hope . Léger believed , as one cannot imagine Braque doing , that he could make images of the machine age ...
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... modernist French poetry , from Baudelaire to Éluard . " A weakness of modernist painting nowadays , " Motherwell wrote in 1950 , " especially prevalent in the ' constructivist ' tradition , is inherent in taking over or inventing ...
... modernist French poetry , from Baudelaire to Éluard . " A weakness of modernist painting nowadays , " Motherwell wrote in 1950 , " especially prevalent in the ' constructivist ' tradition , is inherent in taking over or inventing ...
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abstract Abstract Expressionism aesthetic American architects architecture artist avant-garde Bauhaus become Berlin Braque Breton Bruno Taut building CADAGP Campbell Campbell Campbell Cézanne Cézanne's Chirico's collage colour Corbusier Cubism culture Dada Dali Duchamp Ernst Expressionism Expressionist fantasies figures French Futurist Gallery Gauguin Georges Braque German glass Gogh Gropius Henri Matisse idea ideal imagery images imagined Jackson Pollock Kandinsky landscape Le Corbusier Leo Castelli London look machine Marcel Duchamp Mark Rothko mass Matisse Matisse's Max Ernst meaning meant metaphor Modern Art modernist Mondrian Monet motif Munch Museum of Modern nature nineteenth century objects Oil on canvas Pablo Picasso painter painting Paris Picasso plate political Pollock Pop art Rauschenberg reality Rothko Russian sculpture seemed seen sense Seurat sixties social SOUP SOUP space SPADEM studio style surface Surrealism Surrealist symbol Thames & Hudson things TOMATO Tower tradition twentieth century Utopian visual wanted watercolour wrote York