Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington Groundswell Speaker 2024 How do the animals we

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Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington Groundswell Speaker 2024 How do the animals weAs public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work