TY - BOOK AU - Esplund, Lance TI - The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art SN - 9780465094660 U1 - VSCL PY - 2018/// CY - . PB - Basic Books KW - Art KW - Contemporary art KW - Visual Culture N1 - In The Art of Looking, renowned art critic Lance Esplund demonstrates that works of modern and contemporary art are not as indecipherable as they might seem. With patience, insight, and wit, Esplund guides us through the last century of art and empowers us to approach and appreciate it with new eyes. Eager to democratize genres that can feel inaccessible, Esplund encourages viewers to trust their own taste, guts, and common sense. The Art of Looking will open the eyes of viewers who think that recent art is obtuse, nonsensical, and irrelevant, as well as the eyes of those who believe that the art of the past has nothing to say to our present ER -