High Modernism - For Further Reading

For Further Reading

  • Tom Wolfe's two books of art criticism, The Painted Word (Bantam, 1975: ISBN 0-553-38065-6), on painting, and From Bauhaus to Our House (Bantam, 1981: ISBN 0-553-38063-X), on architecture, are satirical tours of the pretentiousness of modern art.



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