Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century

Lost Art: Missing Artworks of the Twentieth Century

by Jennifer Mundy

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Damaged, attacked, rejected, destroyed, transient - there are many ways that art can become lost. With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.

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    How does the book redefine our understanding of what constitutes a "work of art" when its physical existence is altered, rejected, or entirely destroyed?

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    Consider a physical object or memento from your own life that you have lost or discarded; how does your memory of it compare to how you remember surviving possessions?

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    Mundy explores various fates for artworks—from deliberate destruction by the artist to accidental loss—which of these categories do you find the most tragic or provocative, and why?

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