ArtQuake

The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

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<div><b>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.</b><br> <br><i>ArtQuake</i> tells the stories of <b>50 pivotal works that shook the world</b>, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.<br><br> The books begin with the<b> rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism</b>, daring painters and sculptors like <b>Manet </b>and <b>Rodin</b>, <b>Van Gogh </b>and <b>Courbet, </b>who experimented with expressionist and realist art styles as well as controversial subjects.<br><br> Moving into the fin de siècle and the 20th century, we study the truly iconic works and turbulent lives of artists like <b>Munch </b>and <b>Klimt</b>, <b>Picasso </b>and <b>Egon Schiele, </b>whose work into abstraction, surrealism and cubism <b>shocked and scandalized</b>, but ultimately <b>changed the course of western art forever.</b><br><br> Moving into the second half of the 20th Century, we see spectacular works of <b>conceptual rebellion, absurdity</b> and <b>political protest, </b>from<b> Andy Warhol</b> and the Pop Art movement to <b>Marina Abramovic</b>, whose often visceral and violent works of performance art laid bare the savagery of the patriarchy and the human condition.<br><br> In the 21st century, we see how iconoclastic creators have pushed the boundaries of art even further, from <b>Banksy </b>to <b>Louise Bourgeoise, </b>from self-destructing paintings to experimental works of computerized art.<br><br> Complete with beautiful reproductions of their iconic works, as well as a glossary of terms and movements at the back, meet the <b>huge egos</b>, uncompromising<b> feminists</b>, gifted <b>recluses</b>, <b>spiritualists</b>, <b>anti-consumerists</b>, <b>activists </b>and <b>satirists </b>who have irrevocably carved their names into the history of art around the world.<br><br> In telling the history of modern and contemporary art th

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780711254763

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

202 x 157 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Quarto Publishing PLC