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Modern art of statues shaped by the world wars

2014
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Advisor: Doç. Rahmi Atalay

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Mankind has used art as a means of self expression within the conditions and era he is in and has developed many different languages. And the art of statues being a branch of art that has existed since the antique times has gained different types of expression with the changing people. Illumination era the French Revolution and the industrial revolution and changes in the social and political areas have formed the reasons why the world war 1 and 2 started. During the world wars and afterwards, artists have shown their personal manners through the art language that they have developed upon the experiences he was exposed to or witnessed. The power balances having changed after the world war 2, made America the centre of art and new york took the place of Paris. The effect of migrated European artists on the American abstract exhibitionism is huge. Under the light of this research, starting from the antique times , the chronological development of the statue art has been examined beside the philosophical political and cultural changes of its time and abstract exhibitionism has been dealt with along with the artists of the school of new york and the post-war samples of statues.

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Yeliz Cantekin

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Yeliz Cantekin (Master Thesis). Modern art of statues shaped by the world wars, 2014, Anadolu University.

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