By Alice Harman (author) , Serge Bloch (illustrator)
"Discover the stories behind artworks by Matisse, Kahlo and more..."
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Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2022 Information Books 3-14
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. Modern art has never seemed so exciting!
By going behind the scenes and turning each artwork inside out, young readers will see that artworks aren't 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.
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Award-winning illustrator Serge Bloch's 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 world's most celebrated modern art museums.
Alice Harman has written over twenty books for children. She developed the award-winning book about art, Why is art full of naked people?. Serge Bloch is a multiple-award-winning illustrator. Thames & Hudson published his book The Big Adventure of the Little Line in 2015.
UKLA Book Awards - 2022
UKLA Book Awards 2022
Small Stories of Great Artists
Great Lives in Graphics: Leonardo Da Vinci
Meet the Artist: David Hockney
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Modern Art Explorer and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-10 years old
Modern Art Explorer features in the following genres: Art and Design, Educational: Arts, general, Educational material, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Recommendations
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Modern Art Explorer was written by Alice Harman and published by Thames & Hudson Ltd
Modern Art Explorer has 96 pages
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