The Shock of the NewA beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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Page 21
... figures were not Expressionist distortions , but conventional forms , was perhaps less clear ( or at least less interesting ) to him than to us . They seemed violent , and they offered themselves as a receptacle for his own panache . So ...
... figures were not Expressionist distortions , but conventional forms , was perhaps less clear ( or at least less interesting ) to him than to us . They seemed violent , and they offered themselves as a receptacle for his own panache . So ...
Page 217
... figures in the piazze are sculptures , some of them quite recognizable : de Chirico's recurrent figure of a Philosopher is taken from a curious marble statue of the Torinese savant Bottero , which stands conversationally on a low plinth ...
... figures in the piazze are sculptures , some of them quite recognizable : de Chirico's recurrent figure of a Philosopher is taken from a curious marble statue of the Torinese savant Bottero , which stands conversationally on a low plinth ...
Page 377
... figures have kept their place on the edge of modernism for the better part of twenty years . At first they were identified with Pop , because some of his tableaux had an aggressive , urban character and used real props : stacks of oil ...
... figures have kept their place on the edge of modernism for the better part of twenty years . At first they were identified with Pop , because some of his tableaux had an aggressive , urban character and used real props : stacks of oil ...
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abstract Abstract Expressionism aesthetic American architects architecture artist avant-garde Bauhaus become Berlin Braque Breton Bruno Taut building CADAGP Campbell Campbell Campbell Cézanne Cézanne's Chirico's collage colour Corbusier Cubism culture Dada Dali Duchamp Ernst Expressionism Expressionist fantasies figures French Futurist Gallery Gauguin Georges Braque German glass Gogh Gropius Henri Matisse idea ideal images imagined Jackson Pollock Kandinsky landscape Le Corbusier Leo Castelli London look machine Marcel Duchamp Mark Rothko mass Matisse Matisse's Max Ernst meaning meant metaphor Modern Art modernist Mondrian Monet motif Munch Museum of Modern nature nineteenth century objects Oil on canvas Pablo Picasso painter painting Paris Picasso plate political Pollock Pop art Rauschenberg reality Rothko Russian sculpture seemed seen sense Seurat sixties social SOUP SOUP SOUP space SPADEM studio style surface Surrealism Surrealist symbol Thames & Hudson things TOMATO Tower tradition twentieth century Utopian visual wanted watercolour wrote York