What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art Paperback - 2013

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• Title What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
• Author Will Gompertz
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 464
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Plume Books
• Date 2013-09-24
• Illustrated Yes
• ISBN 9780142180297 / 0142180297
• Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
• Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.2 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 3.05 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Library of Congress subjects Art, Modern - 20th century, Art, Modern - 19th century
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012027995
• Dewey Decimal Code 709

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 “Gompertz has an uncanny knack for making difficult art (and ideas) easy…A lively, witty account of the major moments and movements of the past 150 years.”
–Associated Press

“An insightful love letter to modern art and an irreverent rejection of the notion that its pleasures are reserved for a chosen few… Each [chapter] hums with engaging history and entertaining anecdotes, cheeky asides and accessible, illuminating criticism.”
–NPR

“Gompertz is determined to dispel the layman's fear of the modern art world and those who inhabit it. What Are You Looking At?, which comes out this week, does a very good job of this—replacing isolating esotericism with witty and chatty commentary.”
–Interview  

“A deeply enlightening and buoyant history of modern art and beyond.”
–Booklist (starred review)

“[A] highly lucid, lively, and buoyantly composed history…while his tone is breezy and conversational, [Gompertz] astutely and often wittily describes the core of every movement and its key artists.”
–Publishers Weekly
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