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- Published: 13 June 2016
- ISBN: 9780241965993
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $37.00
What Are You Looking At?
150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye
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- Published: 13 June 2016
- ISBN: 9780241965993
- Imprint: Penguin General UK
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- RRP: $37.00
Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had
Will Gompertz
Fascinating, fresh, energetic. A lively train-ride through modern art movements, beginning with Impressionism, ending with Banksy
Scotsman
Highly readable. Robert Hughes’s The Shock of the New redone à la Bill Bryson. Filters out all jargon and pretension and filters in plenty of fun. A richly detailed and highly entertaining history from Delacroix to Damien Hirst
Daily Telegraph
Energetic, comprehensive, refreshingly up-to-the-minute
Observer
Gompertz writes about difficult things 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
Rattles along, powered by some astute observations
Sunday Times, Books of the Year