Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art

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Art has changed. Familiar styles and movements that characterized art production prior to the twenty-first century have all vanished. Traditional artistic media no longer do what we expect of them. Ways of Looking provides a six-step programme for understanding contemporary art based on the concept of the tabula rasa a clean slate and a fresh mind. It transforms a potentially intimidating encounter with cutting-edge art into a dramatic, sensually rewarding and thought-provoking experience.

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"An instruction manual for the modern aesthete" - Wallpaper* "This great little book provides signposts for a journey rich in colour and imagination" - World of Interiors "The perfect contemporary gallery companion - clever, practical and (thankfully) free of loaded art-world terminology" - Vogue

Author Bio

Ossian Ward is Head of Content at the Lisson Gallery. He was previously chief art critic at Time Out London.