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Double Metamorphosis III (Counterpoint and Sequence)
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One of Yaacov Agam’s best-known works, Double Metamorphosis III is over eight feet tall and thirteen feet wide. The painting’s composition changes dramatically depending on the angle from which the…

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Yaacov Agam

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1968–1969

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Technology, Modernity
Three-dimensional abstract artwork, with patchy, multicolored narrow grids.
L’Unité d’habitation à Nantes-Rezé
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The Unité d'habitation of Nantes-Rezé is an apartment building located in Rezé, a suburb of Nantes, France designed by Le Corbusier. Lucien Hervé photographed the building, as he did many buildings…

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Lucien Hervé

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Date:

1952–1954

Subjects:

Photography, Modernity, Aesthetics, Cities

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Photography
Photograph of exterior of modern apartment building taken from below an overhang showing a young woman walking toward a wall in front of her, and shadow of another woman reflected on the side of the building on the left.
Head of a Woman
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Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…

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Amedeo Modigliani

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1911–1912

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Crafts, Modernism, Women, Modernity

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Sculpture
Sculpture of elongated head and neck.