A Concise History of Modern PaintingComprehensive, authoritative, highly readable and generously illustrated, Herbert Read's text has been rightly acknowledged as "by far the best introduction to the subject" (Alan Bowness) and "throughout, lively and closely packed" (Hugh Casson). Here is modern painting from its roots in the work of Cezanne, through Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Dada in the early decades of the twentieth century and on to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. The works of Frank Stella, Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg, amongst many others, are discussed and analyzed by Caroline Tisdall and William Feaver in a lively final chapter that brings us up to present times and points to exciting new developments. |
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Page 101
... Brancusi ( 1876-1957 ) . And not only an individualist , but a pragmatist , that is to say , one who was never motivated by theory , but discovered himself and his art in action . There are works of his which from their general ...
... Brancusi ( 1876-1957 ) . And not only an individualist , but a pragmatist , that is to say , one who was never motivated by theory , but discovered himself and his art in action . There are works of his which from their general ...
Page 102
... Brancusi a reduction of the object to its organic essentials . The egg became , as it were , the formal archetype of organic life , and in carving a human head , or a bird , or a fish , Brancusi strove to find the irreducible organic ...
... Brancusi a reduction of the object to its organic essentials . The egg became , as it were , the formal archetype of organic life , and in carving a human head , or a bird , or a fish , Brancusi strove to find the irreducible organic ...
Page 104
... Brancusi has shown a better understanding of Cézanne's intention than any of the Cubist painters certainly a more consistent attempt to ' realize ' the organic structure of natural objects . It has sometimes been objected that Brancusi's ...
... Brancusi has shown a better understanding of Cézanne's intention than any of the Cubist painters certainly a more consistent attempt to ' realize ' the organic structure of natural objects . It has sometimes been objected that Brancusi's ...
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