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What are you looking at? : the surprising, shocking, and sometimes strange story of 150 years of modern art

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  • Temps de fonctionnement: 13:59 hrs
    Voix de: Matthew Waterson
    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, 2019
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Temps de fonctionnement: 13:59 hrs
    Voix de: Matthew Waterson
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Gompertz, Will
    Contributor: Waterson, Matthew
    Date:
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    2019
    Summary:

    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.

    Original Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.], Tantor Media
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781541464018, 9781977341716, 1977341713