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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... look at a few artists quite closely than to try for a generalized and speckly tour d'horizon; and if that is advisable with the written word, it is an iron law of television. The eight chapters of this book follow the eight programmes ...
... look at a few artists quite closely than to try for a generalized and speckly tour d'horizon; and if that is advisable with the written word, it is an iron law of television. The eight chapters of this book follow the eight programmes ...
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... look at, but no longer be part of. In art, we are at the end of the modernist era, but this is not — as some critics apparently think — a matter for self-congratulation. What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in THE ...
... look at, but no longer be part of. In art, we are at the end of the modernist era, but this is not — as some critics apparently think — a matter for self-congratulation. What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in THE ...
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... 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, its ...
... 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, its ...
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... looks slightly absurd to us as sculpture today, suggesting the difficulties artists faced in transposing the new category of the machine into the conventions of traditional sculpture (plate 1). It is a stone car — an idea that seems ...
... looks slightly absurd to us as sculpture today, suggesting the difficulties artists faced in transposing the new category of the machine into the conventions of traditional sculpture (plate 1). It is a stone car — an idea that seems ...
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... look like owls. A pipe, a glass, a guitar; some yellowed newsprint, black on dirty white when it was glued on two generations ago, now the colour of a bad cigar, irrevocably altering the tonal balance of the piece. Nevertheless, Cubism ...
... look like owls. A pipe, a glass, a guitar; some yellowed newsprint, black on dirty white when it was glued on two generations ago, now the colour of a bad cigar, irrevocably altering the tonal balance of the piece. Nevertheless, Cubism ...
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