What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

Written by:
Will Gompertz
Narrated by:
Roy McMillan

Unabridged Audiobook

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2
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1
Release Date
September 2014
Duration
13 hours 17 minutes
Summary
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz, read by Roy McMilllan.

What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join 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 Cézanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art, why your 5-year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next gallery trip is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting.
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I haven’t finished it yet planning to reread it but if you don’t focus sometimes when you are listening, this book maybe hard suddenly I found we moved to another artist or subject what is the connection? not clear because my focus was not there for a bit and I don’t feel the book organized well One thing about the book there is references to paintings that you have to look for in order to understand the writer words about them sometime your hand not free to do so. I can’t say more about the book i am only read quarter

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