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Modern Art: Picasso to Pollock
From 1907 to 1950 artists broke the picture apart: Cubism, Duchamp's readymades, pure abstraction, Surrealism's dreams and Abstract Expressionism's drips. How to look at work that 'my kid could do', and why New York replaced Paris as the art capital.
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Prereqs: Impressionism. Next: Contemporary art & the art market. Sources: MoMA learning resources, Smarthistory, Robert Hughes's *The Shock of the New*, The Art Assignment.Next: 1. Breaking the picture