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 15
... sense the magnitude of such changes . They amounted to the greatest alteration in man's view of the universe since Isaac Newton . The feeling that this was so was widespread . For the essence of the early modernist experience , between ...
... sense the magnitude of such changes . They amounted to the greatest alteration in man's view of the universe since Isaac Newton . The feeling that this was so was widespread . For the essence of the early modernist experience , between ...
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... sense of reality lurking behind its semantic veils , is also the world as glimpsed in Monet's lily - pond ( plate 78 ) . For the pond was as artificial as painting itself . It was flat , as a painting is . What showed on its surface ...
... sense of reality lurking behind its semantic veils , is also the world as glimpsed in Monet's lily - pond ( plate 78 ) . For the pond was as artificial as painting itself . It was flat , as a painting is . What showed on its surface ...
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... sense of a continuous field of energy of which nature is a manifestation ; it pours through the light and rises from the ground , solidifying in the trees . Because olives grow so slowly , the broad relationships of tree and field ...
... sense of a continuous field of energy of which nature is a manifestation ; it pours through the light and rises from the ground , solidifying in the trees . Because olives grow so slowly , the broad relationships of tree and field ...
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