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The shock of the new : art and the century of change / Robert Hughes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thames & Hudson 60th anniversary edition ; no. 3Publication details: London : Thames & Hudson, 2009.Edition: Updated and enl. edDescription: 444 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780500600214
  • 9780500600214
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The mechanical paradise -- The faces of power -- The landscape of pleasure -- Trouble in Utopia -- The threshold of liberty -- The view from the edge -- Culture as nature -- The future that was
Summary: This work has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. The author demonstrates how modernism sought to describe the experience of the 20th century and that for many key art movements this was a practical task of vital importance.
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This ed. originally published: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mechanical paradise -- The faces of power -- The landscape of pleasure -- Trouble in Utopia -- The threshold of liberty -- The view from the edge -- Culture as nature -- The future that was

This work has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. The author demonstrates how modernism sought to describe the experience of the 20th century and that for many key art movements this was a practical task of vital importance.

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