ArtQuake 
The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art

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.

 


Art Quake tells the stories of
50 pivotal works that shook the world , telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.



The books begin with the
rebels who struck out against Victorian conformism , daring painters and sculptors like
Manet and
Rodin ,
Van Gogh and 
Courbet,   who experimented with expressionist and realist art styles as well as controversial subjects.



Moving into the fin de siècle and the 20th century, we study the truly iconic works and turbulent lives of artists like
Munch and
Klimt ,
Picasso and
Egon Schiele,   whose work into abstraction, surrealism and cubism
shocked and scandalized , but ultimately
changed the course of western art forever.



Moving into the second half of the 20th Century, we see spectacular works of
conceptual rebellion, absurdity and
political protest, from
Andy Warhol and the Pop Art movement to
Marina Abramovic , whose often visceral and violent works of performance art laid bare the savagery of the patriarchy and the human condition.



In the 21st century, we see how iconoclastic creators have pushed the boundaries of art even further, from
Banksy to
Louise Bourgeoise,   from self-destructing paintings to experimental works of computerized art.



Complete with beautiful reproductions of their iconic works, as well as a glossary of terms and movements at the back,  meet the 
huge egos , uncompromising
feminists , gifted
recluses ,
spiritualists ,
anti-consumerists ,
activists and 
satirists  who have irrevocably carved their names into the history of art around the world.



In telling the history of modern and contemporary art through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created,
Art Quake demonstrates the heart of modern art, which is to constantly
question and challenge expectation . 



This book is from the
Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields. Also available is
  Film Quake , which tells the stories of 50 key films that
consciously questioned the boundaries , challenged the status quo and
made shockwaves we are still feeling today.

Tabla de materias

Introduction


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

 

Sobre el autor

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.