See What You're Missing: New Ways of Looking at the World Through Art
Will Gompertz
Apr 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Matt Addis
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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 learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on autopilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvelous, 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 color, 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 listener.
About the author
As the BBC's arts editor, Will Gompertz has interviewed and observed many of the world's leading artists, directors, novelists, musicians, actors, and designers. He is the author of the internationally bestselling art history book What Are You Looking At?, which has been published in over fifteen languages.
Matt Addis made his West End debut in Boeing-Boeing and toured internationally with Stones in His Pockets and When Harry Met Sally. His television credits include W1A, Queen Victoria's Men, Rose, Pobol y Cwm, and The British.
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