Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art

by Robert Shore

How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today's global multibillion-dollar art world? Blow Up answers these questions by following the lives of seminal contemporary artists and the stories behind their groundbreaking works.

Against a backdrop of armed conflict (two World Wars, Japanese militarization, US troops...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500027986
• ISBN13: 9780500027981
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 232 Pages