Book SynopsisAn alternative introduction to modern art, focusing on the stories of 50 key works that consciously questioned the boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today. Table of ContentsIntroductionBREAKING 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 ArtTHE 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’KeeffeCONFLICT 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 ManzoniCOMMERCIALISM 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 GirlsBEYOND 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
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