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Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That

Paperback • 2012 • English

Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That

By Susie Hodge

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About the book

"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...Show more

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ISBN

9780500290477

Publisher

Thames Hudson Ltd

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That

Format

Paperback

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