Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained

Synopsis

Why your 5 year old could not have done that is susie hodge's 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 twombly's scribbled olympia (1957), jean-michel basquiat's crude but spontaneous lnaprk (1982), to the apparently careless mess of tracey emin's my bed (1998) and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are inspired and logical extensions of the ideas of their time.