Description
Book SynopsisGives you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from realistic works of earlier centuries. This book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled Olympia, Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spontaneous LNAPRK, and more.
Trade Review'Informative and well written' - Artists and Illustrators
'Passionate and persuasive' - The Artist
'In its admirable lack of pretentious description, it is equally good reading for those seeking to understand how it is that in the world of modern art, the provocative can conquer the aesthetic' - Daily Telegraph
Table of Contents1. Objects/Toys, featuring works by Beuys, Calder, Giacometti, Koons, Orozco, Tinguely and others • 2. Expressions/Scribbles, featuring works by Acconci, Creed, Hirst, Kandinsky, Kline, Pollock and others • 3. Provocations/Tantrums, featuring works by Duchamp, Fontana, Manzoni, Rauschenberg, Rodchenko and others • 4. Landscapes/Playscapes, featuring works by the Bechers, Frankenthaler, Kaprow, Malevich, Matisse, Mondrian and others
