Name: The Shock of the New
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9780307815552

Robert Hughes

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

The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

The Shock of the New

"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."--BOOK COVER.

The Shock of the New The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

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