The Shock of the New: The Hundred=Year History of Modern ArtA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. |
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... galleries, and books, and cannot be fitted on the screen. Nevertheless, my original gratitude to those with whom I worked on the original production of The Shock of the New remains unchanged: to Lorna Pegram, who produced the series and ...
... galleries, and books, and cannot be fitted on the screen. Nevertheless, my original gratitude to those with whom I worked on the original production of The Shock of the New remains unchanged: to Lorna Pegram, who produced the series and ...
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... galleries to look at works of art, were touched by the feeling of a new age that the Eiffel Tower made concrete. It was the herald of a millennium, as the nineteenth century made ready to click over into the twentieth. And in its height ...
... galleries to look at works of art, were touched by the feeling of a new age that the Eiffel Tower made concrete. It was the herald of a millennium, as the nineteenth century made ready to click over into the twentieth. And in its height ...
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... gallery of Notre Dame. Most people lived entirely at ground level, or within forty feet of it, the height of an ordinary apartment house. Nobody except a few intrepid balloonists had ever risen a thousand feet from the earth ...
... gallery of Notre Dame. Most people lived entirely at ground level, or within forty feet of it, the height of an ordinary apartment house. Nobody except a few intrepid balloonists had ever risen a thousand feet from the earth ...
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... Gallery, London They were, as every art student knows, whores. Picasso did not name the painting himself, and he never liked its final title. He wanted to call it The Avignon Brothel, after a whorehouse on the Carrer d'Avinyo in ...
... Gallery, London They were, as every art student knows, whores. Picasso did not name the painting himself, and he never liked its final title. He wanted to call it The Avignon Brothel, after a whorehouse on the Carrer d'Avinyo in ...
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... Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Chester Dale Fund He painted his fellow soldiers, in The Cardplayers, 1917 (plate 19), as though they were automata, made from tubes, barrels, and linkages; the forms of mechanized warfare — Léger ...
... Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Chester Dale Fund He painted his fellow soldiers, in The Cardplayers, 1917 (plate 19), as though they were automata, made from tubes, barrels, and linkages; the forms of mechanized warfare — Léger ...
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