The Shock of the New

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 14, 2013 - Art - 448 pages
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A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.


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User Review  - dbsovereign - LibraryThing

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...(!). Read full review

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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 ... Read full review

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Contents

Three
37
Four
86
TROUBLE IN UTOPIA
93
THE THRESHOLD OF LIBERTY
150
Copyright

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The Shock of the New
Robert Hughes
Snippet view - 1991
The shock of the new
Robert Hughes
Snippet view - 1981
The Shock of The New
Robert Hughes
No preview available - 1990

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About the author (2013)

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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TitleThe Shock of the New
AuthorRobert Hughes
Editionrevised
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013
ISBN0307815552, 9780307815552
Length448 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Art / Criticism & Theory
Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Art / Reference
  
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