I loved this amazing book. It was so full of wonderful and obscure works of art that shocked the art world. That started new era's in art. The pictures were stunning and it was so well wrote.  You could tell the author   had excellent knowledge and it was well researched.  I enjoyed every second of this book. I think this is a brilliant book that everyone with an interest in art will love. The layout was brilliant and it moved through in chronological order.  I really can't recommend this book enough. I have always loved reading about controversial issues in the art world. I really learnt so much while reading this book.
So much praise goes out to the author and publishers for putting together this wonderful book that we can all learn from and thoroughly enjoy. I can't wait to read more this author and publishers
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This book cleverly guides us through a history of art which starts with the familiar and shows how long standing traditions were broken. In five sections, and written in chronological order, starting in 1850, the reader is shown how art and its boundaries changed over time. A fascinating account with excellent illustrations. Thank you to Susie Hodge, Net Galley and Frances Lincoln for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was a really, really interesting book. Full of fascinating facts, stories and artwork. However, the formatting and font of the book made it rather difficult to read in a e-book format. The words almost appear blurry on the tablet screen and it is rather hard to focus on the reading. So this is a book that I would recommend to definitely get in a print edition - especially a hardcover one.
This book is basically a really good coffee-table book that you wouldn't mind having out cause you'll actually read it.
The pictures, descriptions and stories included in this book are excellent. This does not shy away from the not so nice parts of the art movements and the artists in them.
A fun read, unique and full of details.

A basic, but beautifully illustrated tour of modern and postmodern (Western) art history and the works of art that exemplify the major revolutions and movements. The usual suspects are al here (e.g., Van Gogh, Duchamp, Warhol, Basquiat). Not groundbreaking in its selection or point of view, but a really good look at the mainstream of art's recent evolution.

An enjoyable gallop through fifty works of art that the author deemed to have changed the world and how we perceive it as much as the art world itself. Starting with the Victorians this moves to the present day with the advent and rise of digital art, even including a small section on NFT's which are currently taking the art world by storm.

I felt there was a good selection of interesting, relevant artworks here, that ranged both across the disciplines and the sexes to make this more inclusive than a lot of works that grace the shelves in the art sections of book shops currently. One would have hoped, in a book that talks about disruption to artistic traditions that this would be the case, so it is nice to see it delivers what it promises.

Each featured work has clear images that allow you to see what the author is talking about (by no means a given) and short, but intelligent prose passages that encapsulate the art, the artwork and the time in which it was made.

A really informative and interesting look at art history, with a slightly humourous and more entertaining lens.
Just because it's about history and a serious subject, doesn't mean that it has to be dry and boring, which I was incredibly impressed about.

A comprehensive look at both well known and lesser known artists, with detailed information about the creation of famous works and not just the pieces themselves.

While I was initially excited about the premise of "Artquake," I found the actual book somewhat disappointing. The book promises to present ‘the most disruptive works in modern art’ but mostly sticks to the better known leaders of various art movements. While those movements may have been disruptive, many of the artists who became famous as a result were white men, often European. I found the selections frustrating at best, if not outright exclusionary. For instance, when discussing the impact African art had on Cubism, Fauvism, and Expressionism, the author fails to name any African artists at all, only looking at the artwork of white men. In fact, the first artist of color I noticed mentioned in the book at all was well over 100 pages in (Frida Kahlo, if you’re wondering).

I’ve read into it and it’s quite good! Very interesting and I like the design and the layout. I haven’t read all of it yet but from what I can say it’s great, not amazing but I really liked what I read and the different forms of art.

Art Quake turned out to be a highly interesting book about 50 of the most known and disruptive pieces of artwork in history. The layout of the book was extremely well done and it was easy to digest all the information.
This would make a fabulous addition to any coffee table book collection.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

"ArtQuake" as the title indicates shows you what has shaken up the art world, certain artists, their works, and even periods in history. You learn so much from how "ArtQuake" has divided the art periods, the timelines were a favorite of mine because it was separated for each art period, not just one huge timeline which I certainly appreciate and you can identify exactly when each art period began and what was happening in the world at that time. The artworks that were chosen, in "ArtQuake", to be discussed and which created such criticisms at that time the pieces were made, certainly lets you understand how controlled the art scene was, and although there's a reason for it all, and putting yourself during those time periods you can see how the certain artworks really gave critics something to talk about.

Following quickly on from Filmquake, which does the same for cinema, this gives us fifty key, semi-canonical moments of the art world of the Victorian era up, taking us from Courbet's "The Bathers" to, well, other dodgy art pieces concerning nudity for spurious reasons. So a shark gets pickled, a pope gets struck by a meteorite, someone takes the piss with a urinal, someone else does worse with shit, and someone gets to call something a "Decontextualization of an Action, Unannounced Performance, Behaviour Art" as if invisible theatre wasn't a thing fifty years previously. (Mind you, as regards the last piece, what the heffing kell are those men wearing only pink knickers and nothing else doing??!!)

Once again the book is structured around the timelines, to point out not only that each painting, happening and sculpture exists as a point in time, but equally as a section and chapter of a longer, wide-reaching narrative. The text labours this at times, demanding we accept each artist influenced each other, and built a bridge from A to C, wherever C was (probably somewhere involving nudity or shit). This clearly isn't a general narrative of 20th Century art – Rothko is absent visually; Christo and Jeanne-Claude get a name-check, but none of their works are here; Land Art ignored for being too subtle. But in being a guide to what artists have done (and still do) to get known, to make a difference and to make something different, this is a powerful survey, never extending its essays and box-outs beyond the necessary basics (pink knickers notwithstanding), and appropriately showing the cycle of real life influencing art influencing real life ad infinitum. Not exactly one for the vicar's wife at times, this is still an enjoyable slice of entertaining education. A strong four stars.

Filmquake :- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4385211028

The second book in the new Culture Quake series, ArtQuake by Susie Hodge is a step-up for me compared to FilmQuake. The most obvious reason is that I am not nearly as well versed into general art as I am with films, thus making this read very worthwhile, eye-opening, and even inspiring.

Hodge chose a collection of 50 bold and boundary-pushing works of art, from famous paintings like Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" and Bansky's "Girl with Balloon"/"Love is in the Bin", to subversive sculptures and "readymades" like Duchamp's "Fountain" or "Immersion (Piss Chris)" by Andres Serrano. Each piece has exhaustive and straightforward biographical notes on the artist's life, placing each of them in their historical and artistic contexts. A compelling, quick, and inspirational read that I would recommend to fellow artists and art-lovers.

This is a beautiful book. I love reading books about art, and I found this one interesting among all the other books. It was fun revisiting all those paintings with a fresh view. I'd love to have the hard copy.

Pros: I often wish I had majored in Art History, so I am thankful for books about art and artists where I can learn about one of my favorite subjects. The approach of this book is fascinating—50 works of post-18050 art that shook the world and often ushered in new eras of and approaches to art. Although many of these works of art are well known, I did not know the stories behind them until reading this book.

Some of my favorite details in this book were the timelines and history sections that set the art in time and place; the artists’ quotes; and that each artwork was captioned with the medium, size, and where it is displayed. Also, the works of art looked great in the digital copy I read, so I assume the printed copy of this book will be a showpiece.

Cons: Until the last section, this book mostly featured European and American artists. I would have loved to see more diversity in the artists featured.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion for the opportunity to read this book.