The Shock of the NewAn 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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“Repelled by the slaughterhouses of the world war, we turned to art,” wrote Arp,
the most gifted of the Zurich Dadas. “We searched for an elementary art that
would, we thought, save mankind from the furious madness of these times . . . we
...
“Repelled by the slaughterhouses of the world war, we turned to art,” wrote Arp,
the most gifted of the Zurich Dadas. “We searched for an elementary art that
would, we thought, save mankind from the furious madness of these times . . . we
...
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“Your face embodies all the world's beauty,” he wrote—sounding rather like
Walter Pater's celebrated passage on that other Fatal Woman, the Mona Lisa – in
a text meant to accompany this painting. “Your lips, crimson red like the coming
fruit, ...
“Your face embodies all the world's beauty,” he wrote—sounding rather like
Walter Pater's celebrated passage on that other Fatal Woman, the Mona Lisa – in
a text meant to accompany this painting. “Your lips, crimson red like the coming
fruit, ...
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“We must participate in the great misery to come,” Beckmann wrote in 1920. “We
have to lay our hearts and nerves bare to the deceived cries of people who have
been lied to . . . the sole justification for our existence as artists, superfluous and ...
“We must participate in the great misery to come,” Beckmann wrote in 1920. “We
have to lay our hearts and nerves bare to the deceived cries of people who have
been lied to . . . the sole justification for our existence as artists, superfluous and ...
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Gebruikersrecensie - dbsovereign - LibraryThingWonderful 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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Gebruikersrecensie - jcbrunner - LibraryThingComing 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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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Shock of the New A Borzoi book |
| Auteur | Robert Hughes |
| Editie | 2, geïllustreerd, herdruk, herzien |
| Uitgever | Knopf, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0679728767, 9780679728764 |
| Lengte | 444 pagina's |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |