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“The Liberating Quality of Avant-Garde Art” - Timothy R. Quigley

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Modern Art: Basic Assumptions, Definitions, and QualificationsEmergence <strong>of</strong> New Criteria and Proliferation <strong>of</strong> StylesThis radical shift in the understanding <strong>of</strong> painting produced a change incriteria and standards comparable to revolutionary shifts taking place innatural science......from the mechanistic model <strong>of</strong> Newton in the 17th century, to therelativity theory <strong>of</strong> Einstein in the early 20th century, both <strong>of</strong> whichcompletely revolutionized the way we think about the natural world andour place within it.Godfrey Kneller, Isaac Newton, 1689 Albert Einstein, 1921Tuesday, February 7, 2012

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