Blow up! : the explosion of contemporary art
Shore, Robert (Robert M.)2025
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This is a non-fiction graphic novel that tells the story of a century of revolutionary contemporary art. How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. How do you get at one of the world's most powerful governments by smashing an old vase? How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today's global multi-billion dollar art world? This graphic novel answers these questions by following the lives of seminal contemporary artists and the stories behind their groundbreaking works. Against a backdrop of armed conflict and rapid societal change, this book tells the story of contemporary art from Marcel Duchamp's repurposed urinal to Maurizio Cattelan's taped banana.
Main title:
Blow up! : the explosion of contemporary art / Robert Shore ; illustrated by Eva Rossetti.
Author:
Shore, Robert (Robert M.), authorRossetti, Eva, artist
Imprint:
London : Thames and Hudson, 2025.
Collation:
232 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780500027981 (hbk)
Dewey class:
709.05J709.05
LC class:
N6497
Local class:
J709.05
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
4203216