folly_problem 's review for:

What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye by Will Gompertz

5.0

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A really fantastic, clear eyed and very understandable treatment of some of the most important modern art movements in the last 150 years. At 400 pages it has to cuta lot of stuff out but this brevity allows it to cover many movements and the links between them without bogging you, the reader, down in unneccessary detail. And all this done in a warm tone with even the occasional joke thrown in.

The author's passion for art is evident and it passes very easily across to you. I'm just itching to see some art and view it with new fresh eyes!

I can't recommend it enough as a starting point for the wild, jargon-filled world of modern art.