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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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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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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