What Are You Looking At?
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  • Published: 11 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780670922475
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99

What Are You Looking At?

150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye

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13 Jun 2016
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24 Oct 2012
Audiobook
11 Sep 2014
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For the sceptics, the art lovers, and the 5 million of us who visit the Tate every year - the funniest, liveliest and most accessible history of Modern Art, by the BBC Arts Editor

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of What Are You Looking At? by Will Gompertz, read by Roy McMilllan.

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 Cézanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art, why your 5-year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next gallery trip is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting.
  • Published: 11 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9780670922475
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Will Gompertz

Will Gompertz is a world-leading expert in, and champion of, the arts. Having spent seven years as a Director of the Tate Galleries followed by eleven years as the BBC's Arts Editor, he is now Artistic Director at the Barbican. Will 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.

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Praise for What Are You Looking At?

Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had

Guardian

He is a natural communicator whose passion for art is expressed with wit and verve

Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of Tate, on Will Gompertz