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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 ContentsIntroduction
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
