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. Causing fascination and intrigue in some, repulse and scorn in others, these cutting-edge totems celebrated novelty and innovation and defined twentieth-century art. From Gustave Courbet's 'The Bathers' (1853) to Marcel Duchamp's 'Fountain' (1917); Yves Klein's 'Anthropology Performance' (1960) to Judy Chicago's 'The Dinner Party' (1974-9); Andres Serrano's 'Piss Christ' (1987) to Banksy's 'Love is in the Bin' (2018) - meet huge egos, uncompromising feminists, gifted recluses, spiritualists, anti-consumerists, activists, satirists and more.
In telling the history of Modern and Contemporary Art through the pieces 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. ArtQuake is an alternative introduction to modern art, focusing on the stories of 50 key artworks that questioned boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.
This is the first in a new series introducing the most disruptive cultural moments of the past 150 years. See also FilmQuake, MusicQuake and FashionQuake.
By:
Susie Hodge
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 201mm,
Width: 150mm,
ISBN: 9780711254763
ISBN 10: 0711254761
Series: Culture Quake
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 14 September 2021
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
CHAPTER 1: AFTER THE FIN-DE-SIECLE Gustave Courbet, The Bathers, 1853feature On Location: Portable paint and fold away easels Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1865feature Photography: How it changed what artists did Auguste Rodin, The Kiss, 1882 Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 James Ensor, Skeletons Fighting over a Pickled Herring, 1891 Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893 Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897 Gustav Klimt, Nuda Veritas (Naked Truth), 1899. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907CHAPTER 2: HORRORS OF WAR Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait, 1910 Wassily Kandinsky, Composition V, 1911 Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, 1913feature Revolution: Industrial, Russian, Weimar Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915 Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917feature Spirituality: Changing beliefs, including Theosophy, Transcendentalism and Metaphysics Hannah Hoch, Cut with a Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919 Piet Mondrian, Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Grey and Blue, 1921 Otto Dix, Skat Players (Card-Playing War Cripples), 1920 Georgia OKeeffe, Black Iris, 1926CHAPTER 3: CONFLICT AND DEGENERACY Max Ernst, Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale, 1924 Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Hans Bellmer, The Doll, 1936feature World War II: How it shaped the world Frida Kahlo, The Broken Column, 1944feature Degenerate Art: Hitlers touring exhibition Jean Dubuffet, Dhotel, Nuance dAbricot, 1947 Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist, 1950 Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953 Yves Klein, Anthropometry Performance, 1960 Piero Manzoni, Artist's Shit, 1961CHAPTER 4: COMMERCIALISM AND PROTESTfeature Pop and High Culture Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes, 1964 Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1962feature New materials: Breaking away from traditional fine art materials Carl Andre, Equivalent VIII, 1966 Yayoi Kusama, Anatomic Explosion on Wall Street, 1968 Vito Acconci, Trademarks, 1970 Marina Abramovic, Rhythm O, 1974 Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-79 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arroz con Pollo, 1981 Nan Goldin, Nan One Month After Being Battered, 1984 Keith Haring, Crack is Wack, 1986 Andres Serrano, Piss Christ, 1987 Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground), 1989 Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met Museum? 1989CHAPTER 5: BEYOND THE FRAMEfeature Globalisationfeature Computerisation Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 Mona Hatoum, Light Sentence, 1992 Jenny Saville, Propped, 1992 Rachel Whiteread, House, 1993 Renee Cox, Yo Mama's Last Supper, 1996 Louise Bourgeois, Cell XXVI, 1999 Maurizio Cattelan, The Pope Struck, 1999 Tania Bruguera, Whisper #5, 2008 Anish Kapoor, A Very Fine Mess, 2009 Kara Walker, A Subtlety, 2014 Banksy, Love is in the Bin, 2018
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.
