American Art Since 1900: A Critical HistoryThe history of American art in the twentieth century is one of revolt, of conflict. It is the story of the American artist's attempt to free himself from European models yet at the same time join the mainstream of Western art. . . . Miss Rose traces the evolution of American art within the context of social, historical, and intellectual events. |
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... pictorial form which the pioneers of modernism had envisioned . Disillusioned with the myth of political progress through the triumph of reason , Dada and Surrealism set out to destroy the concept of progress in art . By the time World ...
... pictorial form which the pioneers of modernism had envisioned . Disillusioned with the myth of political progress through the triumph of reason , Dada and Surrealism set out to destroy the concept of progress in art . By the time World ...
Page 184
... pictorial and psychological development of the theme . De Kooning's pictorial dilemma is spatial . Contours are opened to allow flesh and environment to flow into one another , and anatomical forms themselves have been fragmented ...
... pictorial and psychological development of the theme . De Kooning's pictorial dilemma is spatial . Contours are opened to allow flesh and environment to flow into one another , and anatomical forms themselves have been fragmented ...
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... pictorial structure . Dividing the canvas into equal parallel bands , he arrived at the method of composition Michael Fried has termed " deductive structure " by allowing the frame to generate the composition within its borders . In ...
... pictorial structure . Dividing the canvas into equal parallel bands , he arrived at the method of composition Michael Fried has termed " deductive structure " by allowing the frame to generate the composition within its borders . In ...
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