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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS., 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 24 by 17 cm-Unmarked copy-Minor corner wear-TRADE PAPERBACK -Published in the same format as E.H. Gombrich's classic The Story of Art, this volume surveys in detail the art of the twentieth century-a period covered only briefly in Gombrich's closing chapters. Art historian Norbert Lynton discusses more than 250 key works and seeks to enable the reader to feel comfortable with modern art. He brings out the motives behind movements and trends, showing them to be serious attempts to make art honest and significant again after a century that many felt too often honored the hollow and pretentious. Modern art still perplexes many people, who find it ugly, arbitrary, and reckless. Lynton believes that the accounts and explanations offered in its support often add to the problem, by stressing rebelliousness as though change itself were a virtue. Pointing to continuities and echoes of more traditional…
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- Title The Story of Modern Art
- Author Lynton N
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing
- Language ENG
- Publisher Phaidon Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780801492143
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The Story of Modern Art - Over 300 illustrations
by Norbert Lynton
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