
What Are You Looking At?
The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
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Matthew Waterson
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Will Gompertz
For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year - and are confused - What Are You Looking At? by former director of London's Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of modern art, from Impressionism to the present day.
What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art.
You will learn: not all conceptual art is bollocks; Picasso is king (but Cezanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art; why your five-year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent, and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? cuts through the pretentious art speak and asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next trip to the art gallery is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting.
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This is a tough topic and he is fabulous. Bravo.
Brilliant and informative and pure pleasure
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The flaw is that the book refers to so many artists and their work but, being an audiobook, we have no way to see them. It is, after all, a book about visual art. I mostly listen to audiobooks while driving. There is little chance I will remember all the details to look up when I get to a computer. If I happen to be listening to it on my laptop I can stop the narration and open a search engine but that can be tedious.
The Kindle edition is inexpensive. I bought it hoping it would have illustrations. No luck. There are a tiny number of B&W pictures. Ideally, there would be a copiously illustrated print edition. However, that might run into copyright problems.
The book leave a nagging question. The author lucidly discusses the context and meaning of scores of works. However, the meanings are often opaque even to an interested museum-goer. One of the difficulties of modern and contemporary art is that the viewer frequently needs a syllabus to begin to appreciate it. I am interested in art but I am not among the elect. The concluding chapter suggests that in the last few decades money and artistic quality have become equivalent. That is a premise most of us can easily reject.
A simply wonderful book with a serious flaw
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Informative, with dynamic storyline
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Weird art is weird.
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Very detailed
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Excellent book ... Excellent narration!
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Great review of modern art
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Best I’ve ever ever read!
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Great book, I recommend. Almost no women, a sad and unbelievable void
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