Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That /anglais - Couverture souple

Hodge, Susie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500290474 ISBN 13 : 9780500290477

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

"Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That" is Susie Hodges passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia" (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiats crude but spontaneous "LNAPRK" (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emins "My Bed" (1998) and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are inspired and logical extensions of the ideas of their time. She explains how such notorious works as Carl Andres Equivalent VIII (1966) the infamous bricks occupy unique niches in the history of ideas, both showing influences of past artists and themselves influencing subsequent artists. With illustrations of works from Hans Arp to Adolf Wolfli, Hodge places each work in its cultural context to present an unforgettable vision of modern art. This book will give you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from the realistic works of earlier centuries, transforming as well as informing your gallery visits for years to come.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Michael Glover s Book of the Year --i

This exhibition [A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance] provides a good opportunity to read 'Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That' by Susie Hodge, T&H Ltd, as modern art is not, and never has been child's play. --Art of England

Informative and well written --Artists and Illustrators

Thought-provoking ... passionate and persuasive --The Artist

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0500290474
• ISBN 13: 9780500290477
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224