Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? asks the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask.
As the BBC's Arts Editor, Will Gompertz has interviewed and observed many of the world's leading artists, actors, writers, musicians, directors and designers. Creativity magazine in New York ranked him as one of the 50 most original thinkers in the world. He is the author of the internationally bestselling What Are You Looking At? and Think Like an Artist, both translated into more than 20 languages.
Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had
*Guardian*
Gompertz has written an energetic and comprehensive romp through
modern art
*Independent*
Gompertz flicks through a mental Rolodex of the world's most famous
images and describes them with a freshness and vividity that brings
them to life
*The Times*
Robert Hughes's The Shock of the New redone à la Bill Bryson ...
few are the histories of modern art that name check Beyonce, David
Foster Wallace and Susan Boyle, or describe the saturnine Paul
Cezanne as the 'Cool Hand Luke of the Parisian avant garde' ...
Filters out all jargon and pretension and filters in plenty of fun
... A richly detailed and highly entertaining history from
Delacroix to Damien Hirst ****
*Telegraph*
Gompertz writes about difficult things - the birth of
conceptualism, the link between the pyramidal compositions of
Géricault's Raft of the Medusa and Delacroix's Liberty Leading the
People - without letting on that they are difficult ... this romp
through art from the 1860s to now is both hugely accessible and
old-fashionedly educative
*Independent on Sunday*
A lively train-ride through the art movements of the modern period
...While he doesn't dumb down the subject, he does take a fresh,
energetic approach ... He explains movements and "isms" with
clarity and humour
*Scotsman*
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