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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... artist, scientifically illiterate, ignorant of their work (as every Frenchman outside the scientific community was ... artists have many sides, and different ages — or even different cultures at the same moment — extract different things ...
... artist, scientifically illiterate, ignorant of their work (as every Frenchman outside the scientific community was ... artists have many sides, and different ages — or even different cultures at the same moment — extract different things ...
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... artist's certainty about what he saw. But with Cézanne, as the critic Barbara Rose remarked in another context, the statement: “This is what I see,” becomes replaced by a question: “Is this what I see?” You share his hesitations about ...
... artist's certainty about what he saw. But with Cézanne, as the critic Barbara Rose remarked in another context, the statement: “This is what I see,” becomes replaced by a question: “Is this what I see?” You share his hesitations about ...
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... artists to think of doing so. One hundred and thirty years before, when Benjamin West admired the tapa cloths, war-clubs, and canoe carvings that had come back from the ... artist would ever have imagined suggesting: that the tradition.
... artists to think of doing so. One hundred and thirty years before, when Benjamin West admired the tapa cloths, war-clubs, and canoe carvings that had come back from the ... artist would ever have imagined suggesting: that the tradition.
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... artist to paint it at all — although it makes a modest appearance in an oil sketch by Seurat, and crops up now and again in the backgrounds of the Douanier Rousseau. The Red Tower, 1911—12 (plate 21), shows how fully Delaunay could ...
... artist to paint it at all — although it makes a modest appearance in an oil sketch by Seurat, and crops up now and again in the backgrounds of the Douanier Rousseau. The Red Tower, 1911—12 (plate 21), shows how fully Delaunay could ...
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