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Art & Outrage - Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts (Paperback)
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Art & Outrage - Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts (Paperback)
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When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused
offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value. Over the
last fifty years many artists have been censored, vilified, accused
of blasphemy and obscenity, threatened with violence, prosecuted
and even imprisoned. Their work has been trashed by the media and
physically attacked by the public. In Art & Outrage, John A.
Walker covers the period from the late 1940s to the 1990s to
provide the first detailed survey of the most prominent cases of
art that has scandalised. The work of some of Britain's leading,
and less well known, painters and sculptors of the post-war period
is considered, such as Richard Hamilton, Bryan Organ, Rachel
Whiteread, Reg Butler, Damien Hirst, Jamie Wagg, Barry Flanagan and
Antony Gormley. Included are works made famous by the media, such
as Carl Andre's Tate Gallery installation of 120 bricks, Rick
Gibson's foetus earrings, Anthony-Noel Kelly's cast body-parts
sculptures and Marcus Harvey's portrait of Myra Hindley. Walker
describes how each incident emerged, considers the arguments for
and against, and examines how each was concluded. While broadly
sympathetic to radical contemporary art, Walker has some residual
sympathy for the layperson's bafflement and antagonism. This is a
scholarly yet accessible study of the interface between art,
society and mass media which offers an alternative history of
post-war British art and attitudes.
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