See What You're Missing
eBook - ePub

See What You're Missing

New Ways of Looking at the World Through Art

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

See What You're Missing

New Ways of Looking at the World Through Art

About this book

Taking us into the minds of artists—from contemporary stars to old masters— See What You're Missing shows us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness. Artists are expert lookers: they have learnedto pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists—from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world—to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness. In See What You're Missing we learn, for example, how Hasegawa Tohaku can help us to see beauty, how David Hockney helps us to see colour, and how Frida Kahlo can help us see pain. In doing so we come to know the exhilarating feeling of being truly alive. See What You're Missing is at once entertaining and enlightening art history while delivering empowering new insights to its reader.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Illustrations
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. David Hockney: Seeing Nature
  7. 2. John Constable: Seeing Clouds
  8. 3. Frida Kahlo: Seeing Through Pain
  9. 4. Wassily Kandinsky: Seeing Music
  10. 5. Yayoi Kusama: Seeing as Therapy
  11. 6. Jean-Michel Basquiat: Seeing for Real
  12. 7. Rembrandt: Seeing Yourself
  13. 8. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Seeing Spectacularly
  14. 9. Kara Walker: Seeing Ambiguity
  15. 10. Fra Angelico: Seeing an Alternative Reality
  16. 11. El Anatsui: Seeing with Your Mind
  17. 12. Edward Hopper: Seeing Isolation
  18. 13. Artemisia Gentileschi: Seeing Dramatically
  19. 14. Agnes Martin: Seeing Feelings
  20. 15. Jennifer Packer: Seeing What’s Not There
  21. 16. James Turrell: Seeing Light
  22. 17. Alice Neel: Seeing Souls
  23. 18. Paul Cézanne: Seeing with Both Eyes
  24. 19. Tracey Emin: Seeing Intimately
  25. 20. Cy Twombly: Seeing Cycles
  26. 21. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Seeing Strangers
  27. 22. Isamu Noguchi: Seeing Space
  28. 23. Xochipala Sculpture: Seeing Us
  29. 24. Paula Rego: Seeing Fantastically
  30. 25. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin: Seeing Everyday Life
  31. 26. Hilma af Klint: Seeing the Invisible
  32. 27. Eva Hesse: Seeing Absurdity
  33. 28. Georgia O’Keeffe: Seeing Shapes
  34. 29. Guo Xi: Seeing Harmony
  35. 30. Peter Paul Rubens: Seeing Politically
  36. 31. Jean Dubuffet: Seeing Beauty in Ugliness
  37. Conclusion
  38. Photographs
  39. Acknowledgements
  40. About the Author
  41. Index
  42. Illustration Credits
  43. Copyright