num_pages: 464
description: In the tradition of Eats Shoots &amp; Leaves art history with a sense of humorEvery year millions of museum and gallery visitors ponder the modern art on display and secretly ask themselves Is this art? A former director at London's Tate Gallery and now the BBC arts editor Will Gompertz made it his mission to bring modern art's exciting history alive for everyone explaining why an unmade bed or a pickled shark can be artand why a five-year-old couldn't really do it. Rich with extraordinary tales and anecdotes What Are You Looking At? entertains as it arms readers with the knowledge to truly understand and enjoy what it is theyre looking at.
language: English
title: What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd