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The Shock of the New by Hughes, Robert
- Bookseller: Left Coast Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 036916
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Good
- Edition: Second Edition
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0070311277
- ISBN 13: 9780070311275
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1991
- Pages: 444
- Size: 8 x 10.75 x 1 inches
- Weight: 2.95 pounds
Description
New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1991 444 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 28 cm. Good+. Previous owner's signature/inside front cover, otherwise tight & clean. Creased back cover. Age toning. First thus. "This authoritative, lively book, based on the BBC Time-Life television series, provides a comprehensive survey of the birth and development of modern art and an updated discussion of the European and American art movements in the 70s and 80s including minimalist and public art, 70s American painting, German Neo-Expressionism, art by women, and environmental art. 'The Future that Was,' the final chapter, is completely rewritten and updated. 75% of the 275 illustrations in the revised edition are in 4-color. / 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." - Publisher.. Second Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Book summary
An expanded book version of an eight-part BBC television series, this volume presents a broad thematic summary of modern art. The title derives from a study of seven significant modern art exhibitions by a friend of the author, Ian Dunlop. Robert Hughes is the art critic for Time magazine, and one of the world's most respected, and controversial, authorities on art.
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