{"product_id":"the-art-of-looking-9780465094660","title":"The Art of Looking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years. We have seen a painting of a single black square on a white ground, Kazimir Malevich''s Black Square (1915), and a hand-signed porcelain urinal, Marcel Duchamp''s Fountain (1917). Mid-century brought us the Abstract Expressionist drip paintings of\u003cbr\u003eJackson Pollock. In Piero Manzoni''s Artist''s Shit (1961), we got a series of 90 sealed tin cans purportedly containing Manzoni''s own excrement. A decade later, with Chris Burden''s Shoot (1971), we saw a performance in which the artist was voluntarily shot in the arm with a rifle. More recently, Damien Hirst exhibited a shark floating in a glass tank of formaldehyde and fellow British artist Tracey Emin-in her  autobiographical installation The History of Painting (1999)-displayed, among other items, her own used tampons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is no wonder, then, that the art-viewing public is perplexed. What''s going on here? Do today''s renowned artists-l\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733786079575,"sku":"9780465094660","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-looking-9780465094660","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}