Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art

A nonfiction graphic novel that tells the story of a century of revolutionary contemporary art.

How did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today's global multibillion-dollar art world? Blow Up! answers these questions by following the lives of seminal contemporary artists and the stories behind their groundbreaking works.

Against a backdrop of armed conflict (two W...