The Shock of the New

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Knopf, 1991 - 444 pagina's
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An illustrated history of modern art describes the origins of modern painting, sculpture, and architecture, shows how world events affected the art, and explains why the movement is near its end

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Pagina 61
It is essential to grasp that Dada was never an art style, as Cubism was; nor did it
begin with a pugnacious socio-political programme, like Futurism. It stood for a
wholly eclectic freedom to experiment; it enshrined play as the highest human ...
Pagina 63
As Marinetti's loathing of history fed into fascism, so this aspect of Dada predicted
the woozy knownothingism that would perfuse the “counterculture” of the sixties.
In their desire for a completely free, gratuitous art to stand at the end of history ...
Pagina 71
The signatories of this manifesto have, under the battle cry D A D A | | | gathered
together to put forward a new art. What, then, is Dadaism? The word “Dada”
signifies the most primitive relation to the reality of the environment. . . . Life
appears ...

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Wonderful pictures - some even full page! Nice overview of the last hundred years or so of art (through the 1980s) -- wow, and to think I've lived through about thirty years of this...(!). Volledige review lezen

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Coming late to the party, this tie-in to an early 1980s TV documentary series, I both like reading his poignant and wide-ranging introduction to 20th century art (that remains very wedded to the 19th ... Volledige review lezen

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Over de auteur (1991)

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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TitelThe Shock of the New
A Borzoi book
AuteurRobert Hughes
Editie2, geïllustreerd, herdruk, herzien
UitgeverKnopf, 1991
ISBN0679728767, 9780679728764
Lengte444 pagina's
  
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