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 11
... nineteenth century made ready to click over into the twentieth . And in its height , its structural daring , its then - radical use of industrial materials for the commemorative purposes of the State , it summed up what the ruling ...
... nineteenth century made ready to click over into the twentieth . And in its height , its structural daring , its then - radical use of industrial materials for the commemorative purposes of the State , it summed up what the ruling ...
Page 269
... nineteenth century bequeathed to modernism . Indeed , it was one of the chief links between the nineteenth century and our own . In a time when God died and artists were not feeling too well either , it took on a special intensity ...
... nineteenth century bequeathed to modernism . Indeed , it was one of the chief links between the nineteenth century and our own . In a time when God died and artists were not feeling too well either , it took on a special intensity ...
Page 367
... century to secular political icons like Jacques - Louis David's Oath of the Horatii , in determining not merely ... nineteenth - century France . Instead of seeing the work of one artist selected as an exemplary voice by king or pontiff ...
... century to secular political icons like Jacques - Louis David's Oath of the Horatii , in determining not merely ... nineteenth - century France . Instead of seeing the work of one artist selected as an exemplary voice by king or pontiff ...
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