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What Are You Looking At?

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

What Are You Looking At?

By Will Gompertz

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About the book

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 Cezanne ...Show more

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9780241965993

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2016

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1

Original title

What Are You Looking At?

Format

Paperback

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