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Fresh Widow: The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp
Fresh Widow The Window in Art since Matisse and Duchamp
Author: Elke Bippus, Ina Blom, Erich Franz, Stefan Gronert
Leon Battista Alberti's 1435 treatise De pictura influenced generations of painters by suggesting that a painting should be approached as an open window. By the twentieth century, the window had transformed into a motif that would test the limits of painting. With his 1920 "Fresh Widow"--a replica of a French window with panes covered in black l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783775732932
ISBN-10: 3775732934
Publication Date: 8/31/2012
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Book Type: Hardcover
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