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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | ebook version : |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susie Hodge |
ISBN: | 9780711254763 0711254761 |
OCLC Number: | 1259543257 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | 208 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Breaking traditions: 1850-1909 -- The horrors of war: 1910-1926 -- Conflict and degeneracy: 1927-1955 -- Commercialism and protest: 1956-1989 -- Beyond the frame: 1990-present. |
Series Title: | Culture quake. |
Other Titles: | Art quake : |
Responsibility: | Susie Hodge. |
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Exciting premise, lackluster execution
While I was initially excited about the premise of Artquake, I found the actual book somewhat disappointing. The book promises to present ‘the most disruptive works in modern art’ but mostly sticks to the better known leaders of various art movements. While those movements may...
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While I was initially excited about the premise of Artquake, I found the actual book somewhat disappointing. The book promises to present ‘the most disruptive works in modern art’ but mostly sticks to the better known leaders of various art movements. While those movements may have been disruptive, many of the artists who became famous as a result were white men, often European. I found the selections frustrating at best, if not outright exclusionary. For instance, when discussing the impact African art had on Cubism, Fauvism, and Expressionism, the author fails to name any African artists at all, only looking at the artwork of white men. In fact, the first artist of color I noticed mentioned in the book at all was well over 100 pages in (Frida Kahlo, if you’re wondering).
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