The Shock of the New: The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 14, 2013 - Art - 448 pages
A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.
 

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Three
37
Four
86
TROUBLE IN UTOPIA
93
THE THRESHOLD OF LIBERTY
150
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Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. From 1970 onwards, he lived in the United States, where he was Time magazine’s art critic for more than twenty-five years. His books include monographs on painters Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach; a history of Australian Art; Heaven and Hell in Western Art; The Fatal Shore; a collection of reviews, Nothing If Not Critical; Barcelona; The Culture of Complaint; and American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, published in conjunction with an eight-part television series on the same subject. Hughes died in August 2012.

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