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Index
List of Figures
Foreword: Are Artists a Bit “Bizarre”? Martin Kemp
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sympathy for the Devil
1 SCANDAL
Guernica and the Monumentalizing of Scandal
Dix and the Legacy of a Victim of Scandal
Greuze, the Académie, and the Hierarchy of Genres
Courbet and the Rival Salons
Whistler and the Weight of Rejection
Manet and the Prostitutes
Koons, Leaks, and Misunderstandings
Malevich and Attention Seeking
Bronzino and Shifts in Morality and Politics
“Bad” Artists and the Fame of Scandal
2 SHOCK
Aristotle and the Art Split
Cattelan, Ai Weiwei, and Art as Prison Break
Schlegl and Burning for Attention
ISIS and the Shock of the Act against the Art
Ofili and the Shock of the Weird
Orozco and the Memento Mori
Abramović and Shock through Pain
Bernini and the Shock of the Body
Burden and Shocks That Bit Back
Shock as a Means to an End, Not an End unto Itself
3 RIVALRY
Vasari and Competition for the Greater Good
Pliny and the Artistic Duel
Titian and Renaissance Rivalries
Borromini and Rivals after the Age of Vasari
Velázquez and the Ut Pictura Poesis Debate
Hirst and Institutional Battles
Lysippos and Acquisition Angst
Ai Weiwei and Patrons against Artists
The Biennale and Modern Love-Hate Relationships
Banksy and Rivalry in Economic Theory
Ulay and the Frenemies
Conclusion: When the Best Artists Are “Bad”
Notes
Selected Bibliography
About the Author
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