A review by katyboo52
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World and How You Can Too by Will Gompertz

3.0

An interesting premise, to attempt to look at what the artist sees and how they endeavour to turn that into art that can share that vision. Plaudits for not just picking dead, white men to write about too. The thirty one artists are a mixed bag and I would be interested to know how Gompertz went about choosing which artists to write about.

I'm not sure who this book is aimed at, perhaps at someone who is interested in art but hasn't really got to grips with it yet as we get a whistle stop tour through the artists and a strange mash up of biography crossed with descriptions of their work plus what the author thinks the artist was seeing, but it's all jumbled up together.