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The shock of the new : art and the century of change

Hughes, Robert, 1938-20122012
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'The shock of the new' combines style, wit, pertinent anecdote, critical poise and scholarship to provide an exhilarating history of a century of art that has puzzled, threatened and outraged its detractors - and captivated its admirers. Robert Hughes has written a major new chapter which not only brings us into the present with the story of the art that was modern, but confronts that art with a powerful challenge for its future.
Edition:
Updated and enlarged edition.
Imprint:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2012.©1991
Collation:
444 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm
Notes:
Based on the BBC eight-part series 'The shock of the new'.'With 269 colour illustrations' --Title page.Includes bibliography: pages [429]-433, and index.
ISBN:
9780500275825 (paperback)0500275823
Dewey class:
709.04
Language:
English
BRN:
147626
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