A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s,
charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent
and conflict-ridden world
From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from
the Great Depression to the rise of consumer culture, artists we call
"modern" faced the challenge of responding imaginatively to utterly new
circumstances of life. Original thought, startling artistic techniques,
and new attitudes to experimentation were required to produce
exceptional and timely work.
Make It Modern guides the reader through the art of the modern world.
Works of celebrated artists, from Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky to
Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, and Yayoi Kusama, alongside a panoply of
undervalued or less-known figures, populate this decade-by-decade
narrative. Make It Modern tells an unforgettable story of how art was
changed forever.