Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

distinct from the representation of the visible world. Delaunay de- veloped his ideas about color use in dialogue with his Russi ...

moldings provides an illusion whose concreteness contrasts with the lightly rendered objects on the right. Five pieces of paper ...

surfaces in many of his paintings as well) and explored its volume via flat planar cardboard surfaces. (FIG. 35-18reproduces the ...

own that figures importantly in the whole design. Enclosed spaces have always existed in figurative sculpture—for example, the s ...

the machine age. Purists maintained that machinery’s clean func- tional lines and the pure forms of its parts should direct the ...

similar repositories of accumulated culture, which they described as mausoleums. They also called for radical innovation in the ...

This Futurist representation of motion in sculpture has its lim- itations. The eventual development of the motion picture, based ...

happens in a completely idiotic way....We are incapable of treating seriously any subject whatsoever, let alone this subject: ou ...

MARCEL DUCHAMPPerhaps the most influential Dadaist was Marcel Duchamp(1887–1968), a Frenchman who became the cen- tral artist of ...

structed work, broken panes and all, between two heavier panes of glass, Duchamp declared the work completed “by chance.” Ducham ...

A photograph of her head appears in the lower right corner, juxta- posed with a map of Europe showing the progress of women’s en ...

America, 1900 to 1930 933 U ntil the 20th century, the dearth of women artists was often due to professional institutions that r ...

of the Tenderloin District, an area cluttered with brothels, dance halls, saloons, gambling dens, and cheap hotels.Sixth Avenue ...

The monochromatic palette is reminiscent of Analytic Cubism, as is Duchamp’s faceted presentation of the human form. The artist’ ...

left corner. His age when he died (24) appears in the lower right cor- ner, and his regiment number (4) appears in the center of ...

artists, especially the Futurists, had demonstrated interest in bur- geoning technology, Americans generally seemed more enamore ...

work and drew her into his circle of avant-garde painters and photog- raphers. Stieglitz became one of O’Keeffe’s staunchest sup ...

This description reveals Stieglitz’s abiding interest in the formal elements of the photograph—an insistently mod- ernist focus. ...

Europe, 1920 to Because World War I was fought entirely on European soil, Euro- pean artists experienced its devastating effects ...

Of course, there was a kind of mass enthusiasm at the start. But this intoxication soon evaporated, leaving a huge vacuum....And ...