Modern Art and the Object: A Century of Changing AttitudesThe book opens with an extensive account of the complex, changing relationship between art and the object over the past hundred years, starting with late nineteenth-century painting, as in Cezanne, and culminating with conceptual art. The view which emerges is that the relationship between art and the object has a constantly shifting emphasis, advancing and receding, always the same but never alike. |
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Page 89
... Moving north , the group joined Hicks at Florence , and pro- ceeded on 19 July by way of Bologna and Ferrara to Venice , where they spent several weeks . They parted in September , the Curtis brothers going to Germany , Hicks to Rome ...
... Moving north , the group joined Hicks at Florence , and pro- ceeded on 19 July by way of Bologna and Ferrara to Venice , where they spent several weeks . They parted in September , the Curtis brothers going to Germany , Hicks to Rome ...
Page 120
... moving back into depth and repeated in mirrors expands into the endless space of dreams . Within the consistency of Cornell's objects and forms is an astonishing variety wherein the elements of texture and colour play a special role ...
... moving back into depth and repeated in mirrors expands into the endless space of dreams . Within the consistency of Cornell's objects and forms is an astonishing variety wherein the elements of texture and colour play a special role ...
Page 148
... moving . In the Ray Gun Theater there are no professional actors , no dialogue and no script , but no happening is completely unplanned or lacking in sound and action . There is no audience in the traditional sense , only a small ...
... moving . In the Ray Gun Theater there are no professional actors , no dialogue and no script , but no happening is completely unplanned or lacking in sound and action . There is no audience in the traditional sense , only a small ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Object Painted and the Painted Object | 65 |
The Mountain in the Painting | 78 |
Copyright | |
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