The Shock of the New

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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.

A beautifully illustrated hundred year history of modern art. Spans from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.

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Overview

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.

A beautifully illustrated hundred year history of modern art. Spans from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
The author of The Fatal Shore and Time magazine's art critic here presents a greatly expanded version of a PBS television series on modern art, and includes some 270 color illustrations. Although he frequently deals in generalities, ``choice anecdotes, telling characterizations, witty observations flow from his pen,'' lauded PW . The ``chapters bristle with apt insights.'' Aug.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780679728764
  • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 8/28/1991
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 448
  • Sales rank: 281,296
  • Product dimensions: 8.00 (w) x 10.90 (h) x 1.12 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert Hughes has been an art critic for Time magazine since 1970. His eight-part BBC/Time-Life television series, on which this book is based, has been broadcast throughout the United States on public television. He has received the Franklin Jewett Mather Award for Distinguished Criticism from the College Art Association of America twice, and he has authored the Art of Australia (1966); Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1969); and Nothing If Not Critical (1990), a collection of essays on art and artists.

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Table of Contents

1. The Mechanical Paradise.

2. The Abiding Violence.

3. The Landscape of Pleasure.

4. Trouble in Utopia.

5. The Threshold of Liberty.

6. The View from the Edge.

7. Culture as Nature.

8. The Future That Was.
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