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Shock of the News

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 28th Nov 2012
Dimensions: w 241mm h 286mm d 22mm
Weight: 1382g
ISBN-10: 1848221215
ISBN-13: 9781848221215
Barcode No: 9781848221215
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In the early twentieth century, visual artists began to think of the newspaper as the basis for verbal and visual puns, as a source of found language and images, as a means to mark time and place or express political criticism. Shock of the News its title playing on that of Robert Hughes' popular BBC television series and book The Shock of the New (1980) traces the newspaper's impact on modern art from 1909 to 2009. Beginning with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of futurism, and Pablo Picasso, co-inventor of cubism, the catalogue considers the role of newspaper in the work of 60 artists, including Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Rauschenberg, Laurie Anderson, Adrian Piper, Robert Gober and Mario Merz. By snipping and overdrawing pages, transferring fragments to canvas, embalming full sheets in encaustic, excising texts, or gilding whole editions, European and American artists to the present day have transformed newspapers into artworks of protean identity and compelling interest.

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'...tackles a rich but underexplored subject...The three essays that conclude the book will be most rewarding to readers looking for more in-depth information...Both general readers and academics will appreciate the intelligent essays and excellent illustrations.' --Library Journal Reviews (web only), 12/14/2012 'In this historical survey Brodie (National Gallery of Art) looks at modernism in the public sphere through the intersection of newspaper culture and modern art...Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers.' Choice