The Modern Art Journal - Softcover

review Like many art-history texts, it provides biographical information, features key works and highlights important terminology and principles of design. Unusually, however this book invites the readers active engagement, as they [Readers] are continuously encouraged to think, write, create and collect through a variety of fun and stimulating activities. --Inis Reading Guide

What made modern art so ground-breaking? Discover for yourself with The Modern Art Journal - a thought-provoking introduction to the revolutionary world of modern art.This interactive activity book introduces the reader to the life and work of 16 artists. But rather than offering a prescriptive approach to art history, it encourages children to write and think about art for themselves. It invites the reader to respond to questions, compose stories and poems, doodle and make their own notes in response to the art and ideas they discover. With a sketchbook binding and funky graphic design, The Modern Art Journal will get kids scribbling and thinking - the perfect tool for the next generation of budding art critics! Features the work of Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Frida Kahlo, Paul Klee, Yayoi Kusama, Rene Magritte, Pablo Picasso, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread.