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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... mass media, which displaced painting and sculpture from their old centrality as public speech? Obviously, these are only some of the themes of modern art. Equally obviously, neither eight chapters nor eight programmes can cover them ...
... mass media, which displaced painting and sculpture from their old centrality as public speech? Obviously, these are only some of the themes of modern art. Equally obviously, neither eight chapters nor eight programmes can cover them ...
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... mass audience; millions of people, not the thousands who went to the salons and 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 ...
... mass audience; millions of people, not the thousands who went to the salons and 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 ...
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... mass squalor and voiceless suffering that William Blake had railed against and Friedrich Engels described. In the past the machine had been represented and caricatured as an ogre, a behemoth, or — due to the ready analogy between ...
... mass squalor and voiceless suffering that William Blake had railed against and Friedrich Engels described. In the past the machine had been represented and caricatured as an ogre, a behemoth, or — due to the ready analogy between ...
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... mass (modelled clay, cast bronze, carved stone or wood), but as an open construction of planes. It is doubtful whether any single sculpture has ever had, by such deceptively humble means, a comparable effect on the course of its own ...
... mass (modelled clay, cast bronze, carved stone or wood), but as an open construction of planes. It is doubtful whether any single sculpture has ever had, by such deceptively humble means, a comparable effect on the course of its own ...
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... mass manufacture in the midst of its traditional opposite, the hand-made object. Real chair-caning was at least a craft product, and came from the same order of things as a painting. But the oilcloth in this still-life of 1912 opened ...
... mass manufacture in the midst of its traditional opposite, the hand-made object. Real chair-caning was at least a craft product, and came from the same order of things as a painting. But the oilcloth in this still-life of 1912 opened ...
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