
What Are You Looking At?
150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye
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Narrated by:
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Roy McMillan
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By:
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Will Gompertz
About this listen
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 zanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art; and 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.
©2014 Will Gompertz (P)2014 Penguin AudioI was a little sceptical as to how an art book would go as an audio book but as I have a bit of an art background I thought why not. So glad I did. Will covers in detail the movement and inspiration of the various art movements from the impressionists to today. Insightful, funny and a great performance by Roy McMillan. I did stop the book at times to google the various artworks he described but I found that did not impact on my enjoyment at all.
Five stars without a doubt.
An insightful listen
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Good book, explained
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I would definitely recommend reading it rather than listening to it even though all the works are easy to visualize the way Gompertz describes them. You can always look them up, but this is just an unnecessary complication and gets in the way of really enjoying the book.
Even though the book is quite basic, which is to be expected from something that covers such a broad range of subjects, I think a good number of professionals (art historians, art history students, museologists, gallery-workers, etc.) could definitely benefit from Gompertz's simple approach to art and, more importantly, his uncomplicated way of writing about art.
A seamlessly woven story of modern art.
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Good read for any level of art knowledge
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Amazing and the most profound book for a beginner like me
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Would you listen to What Are You Looking At? again? Why?
Amazing book! I purchased it to help me with a modern art class and I loved it. I would recommend it,What was one of the most memorable moments of What Are You Looking At??
I enjoyed the whole book.Have you listened to any of Roy McMillan’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
NoWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Every chapter was interesting and informative.Any additional comments?
Great way to understand what happened with art at this time.What are you looking at 150 years of modern Art
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A bit hard to listen to this as an audiobook, a lot of names and verbal descriptions of the artwork. The narrator did not make it any easier, even though the diction was good and the intonation was not robotic, the reading speed was too fast and hard to follow.
In the end, I had to read the text book as well and look up all the pictures. Took quite a bit more time than I expected, but it was fun.
Great read. A bit hard to listen
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Well written and great narration
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Good book. Well read.
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Nothing short of awesome
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