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title: "Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art"
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# Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art

**Brand:** prestel
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Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art

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## Customer Reviews

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    A SUPERB BOOK!
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2017*

This is an important book for anyone who has looked at a painting and wondered "Why is this painting special, important, valuable,and thought of as  brilliant?."It is a joy to read such a fascinating, informative and enjoyable book, written by an author so eminent and experienced and who certainly knows his 'stuff.' I bought this book because I learned so much from his earlier book "The Value of Art" and the two titles are invaluable and absolute 'musts' for the layman who has a love and appreciation of art but has 1001 questions. Mr. Findlay's books go a long way in educating the reader, pointing him/her in the right direction and making visits to museums much more enjoyable and worthwhile.  Mr. Findlay's writing style is perfect for a book of this nature and his skill in selecting quotations is pure magic.  This book, as well as his earlier one - "The Value of Art" should be pride of place in every art lover's bookcase.

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    Don't just look at art, see it
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2020*

Findlay has published a very elegant work. It's well-designed with an attractive layout and is full of excellent reproductions of fine art. He maintains that "the inescapable gift of art is its ability to stir our feelings". When visiting museums he encourages us to eschew the audio guide and smartphone apps telling us what to think and just look at art without any preconception. Otherwise we will suffer from "perceptual contraception". He advises not to read biographies of artists before we visit their works or read the labels and captions that are placed adjacent to their paintings. Rather than hug the walls like most visitors who spend on average ten seconds per painting (including three for reading labels) he recommends us to stand in the middle of the room and scan slowly until a painting beckons us.  He berates the modern investor-collector whose opinions drown out the fading authority of curators and academics. It's all about the money! One final point - high quality art should equate to high prices but the reverse is not true.  If there's a criticism about his book, it's the repetition of his point of view about the need to see art without preconception. But many of his stories highlighting his philosophy are amusing and alleviate the didacticism of his work.Review written by author of The Diplomatic Spy from Shawn Callon.

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    Use this method next time you visit an exhibit
  

*by G***O on Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2017*

Try this method, it's an interesting way to approach an exhibit.  Although Mr. Findlay repeats himself many times, making you wonder if a fine magazine article was fleshed out to make a book, it's still worth reading.  An art-loving friend and I tried seeing slowly as prescribed herein at a Mark Tobey exhibit and for both of us (independently, as required by Findlay) found ourselves immersed in several paintings, and we came away from the exhibit with a great respect for and enjoyment of art we might otherwise have just glanced at.

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