Museum Bums

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Art history, from behind. Museum Bums is a cheeky tour of classical art and its most celebrated rear ends — born from the viral Twitter account, now a proper coffee-table romp thro ugh the galleries of the world. Heritage scholars Mark Small and Jack Shoulder pair lively captions with genuine social commentary and historical context, tracing the human form from Renaissance painting to contemporary abstraction. Organized into six categories of keisters, it draws an unlikely line between Hieronymus Bosch, the Roman cult of Antinous, and the peach emoji — and makes the case that art history has always had a sense of humor. The classics, with a wink. Show more