• Title: A Fable of Modern Art
• Author/Editor(s) Dore Ashton
• Publisher: University of California Press;
• Hardcover/Paperback: 128 pages
• eBook: HTML and PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520073010
• ISBN-13: 978-0520073012
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Book Description

Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured.

• Dore Ashton is Professor of Art History at Cooper Union, New York City.

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