ArtQuake

Description

Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up.
 
ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.

The books begin with the rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism, daring painters and sculptors like Manet and Rodin, Van Gogh and Courbet, who experimented with expressionist and realist art styles as well as controversial subjects.

Moving into the fin de siècle and the 20th century, we study the truly iconic works and turbulent lives of artists like Munch and Klimt, Picasso and Egon Schiele, whose work into abstraction, surrealism and cubism shocked and scandalized, but ultimately changed the course of western art forever.

Moving into the second half of the 20th Century, we see spectacular works of conceptual rebellion, absurdity and political protest, from Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement to Marina Abramovic, whose often visceral and violent works of performance art laid bare the savagery of the patriarchy and the human condition.

In the 21st century, we see how iconoclastic creators have pushed the boundaries of art even further, from Banksy to Louise Bourgeoise, from self-destructing paintings to experimental works of computerized art.

Complete with beautiful reproductions of their iconic works, as well as a glossary of terms and movements at the back, meet the huge egos, uncompromising feminists, gifted recluses, spiritualists, anti-consumerists, activists and satirists who have irrevocably carved their names into the history of art around the world.

In telling the history of modern and contemporary art through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created, ArtQuake demonstrates the heart of modern art, which is to constantly question and challenge expectation. 

This book is from the Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields. Also available is FilmQuake, which tells the stories of 50 key films that consciously questioned the boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.

Susie Hodge MA FRSA is the bestselling author of Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That, The Short Story of Art and How to Survive Modern Art. She has written over 100 books on art, art history, history and artistic techniques. In addition, she hosts lectures, talks and practical workshops, and regularly appears on television and radio talks and documentaries on everything to do with art.

Introduction
BREAKING TRADITIONS: 1850–1909
The Bathers, Gustave Courbet
Art Inventions
Olympia, Édouard Manet
Manet and Modern Art
The Kiss, Auguste Rodin
Photography
The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh
Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring, James Ensor
The Scream, Edvard Munch
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Paul Gauguin
Nuda Veritas, Gustav Klimt
Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Pablo Picasso
The Influence of African Art
THE HORRORS OF WAR: 1910–1926
Seated Male Nude (Self-portrait), Egon Schiele
Composition V, Wassily Kandinsky
Synaesthesia
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, Umberto Boccioni
Revolution!
Black Square, Kazimir Malevich
Fountain, Marcel Duchamp
Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, Hannah Höch
Spirituality
Skat Players (Card-Playing War Cripples), Otto Dix
Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue, Piet Mondrian
De Stijl and Neo-Plasticism
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale, Max Ernst
Black Iris, Georgia O’Keeffe
CONFLICT AND DEGENERACY: 1927–1955
The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí
The Doll, Hans Bellmer
Degenerate Art
The Broken Column, Frida Kahlo
The Second World War
Dhôtel Nuancé D’Abricot, Jean Dubuffet
Number One, 1950 (Lavender Mist), Jackson Pollock
Erased de Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg
Experimentation
Untitled Anthropometry (Ant 106), Yves Klein
Artist’s Shit, Piero Manzoni
COMMERCIALISM AND PROTEST: 1956–1989
Concetto Spaziale, Lucio Fontana
Brillo Boxes, Andy Warhol
Materialism
Pop and High Culture
Equivalent VIII, Carl Andre
Anatomic Explosion on Wall Street, Yayoi Kusama
New Materials
Trademarks, Vito Acconci
Rhythm O, Marina Abramovic
The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago
Feminism
Arroz con Pollo, Jean-Michel Basquiat
Nan One Month After Being Battered, Nan Goldin
Immersion (Piss Chris), Andres Serrano
Untitled (Your Body is a Battle Ground), Barbara Kruge
Do Women Have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum?, Guerrilla Girls
BEYOND THE FRAME: 1990–PRESENT
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, Damien Hirst
Light Sentence, Mona Hatoum
Propped, Jenny Saville
Untitled (House), Rachel Whiteread
Installations
Globalization
Yo Mama’s Last Supper, Renee Cox
La Nona Ora, Maurizio Cattelan
Cell XXVI, Louise Bourgeois
Svayambhu, Anish Kapoor
Tatlin’s Whisper #5, Tania Bruguera
Performance Art
Computerization
A Subtlety, Kara Walker
Love is in the Bin (Girl with Balloon), Banksy
Glossary
Picture Credits
Index
Acknowledgements
 

Additional information

Dimensions	0.875 × 6.25 × 8.125 in
Series	Culture Quake
Imprint	Frances Lincoln
Format	General Trade
ISBN-13	09780711254763
ISBN-10	0711254761
Audience	General / adult
BISAC	ART023000, ART016000
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