Art

10 books

• How to LookFree to readWhere your eye is sent, a trick invented in Florence, and why no colour is itself.3 chapters
• What It Is Made OfFree to readPlaster that dries by noon, a medium that allows second thoughts, and metal that lies.3 chapters
• Who Paid for ItFree to readContracts that specified the blue, the invention of the dealer, and provenance.3 chapters
• Why Modern Art Looks Like ThatFree to readWhat the camera took away, leaving the window, and the urinal question.3 chapters
• Who Owns ItFree to readA lost permit, a punitive expedition, and the strongest case for keeping things where they are.3 chapters
• BuildingsFree to readHow a thing stands up, an argument against decoration, and why the same concrete is loved and hated.3 chapters
• What a Restorer DecidesFree to readA rule that cannot always be kept, an argument about how clean is too clean, and what is under the paint.3 chapters
• Where the Window Was Never the PointFree to readWriting as the senior art, what gets made when figures are avoided, and a picture with four authors.3 chapters
• What the Museum Does to ItFree to readA king's pictures handed to the nation, a white room that is not empty, and seventeen seconds in front of a masterpiece.3 chapters
• Who Has to Live With ItFree to readA steel wall taken down at night, a statue that recorded the year it went up, and a plinth that was never filled.3 chapters