Modern Art Explorer is a witty and brilliantly illustrated introduction to modern art for children that takes readers undercover to discover the stories behind thirty famous artworks from the Centre Pompidou's collection in Paris. By going behind the scenes and turning each artwork inside out, young readers will see that artworks arent remote monuments but real things that are shaped into being by ideas, inspirations, human lives, world events and the materials artists use. Children will be entertained and intrigued by a variety of engagingly specific details and buoyed by their ability to understand what these works of art are all about. Award-winning illustrator Serge Blochs cheeky, comic and energetic illustrations serve to illuminate the information and the ideas in each artwork. The thirty featured artworks themselves represent the work of a diverse range of modern and contemporary artists from one of the worlds most celebrated modern art museums. Modern art has never seemed so exciting!

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 7 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published in 2020 by Thames & Hudson Ltd .

Alice Harman is an experienced author of history books for children. Serge Bloch has won a gold medal at the Society of Illustrators and creates art for The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Chicago Tribune. He has written several other books, including some in French.