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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis is a group of four broadly connected essays attempting to define that now-old question, What is modern art about? Varnedoe (director of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art) identifies ... Read full review
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TWO NEAR AND | 24 |
THREE FRAGMENTATION AND REPETITION | 102 |
FOUR PRIMITIVISM | 182 |
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| Title | A fine disregard: what makes modern art modern |
| Author | Kirk Varnedoe |
| Publisher | Abrams, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Nov 8, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0810931001, 9780810931008 |
| Length | 319 pages |
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