A fine, informative read about modern art. To my relief - as someone who mostly just find modern art pretentious with a few choice exceptions - the author does not ask the reader to like modern art, only to agree that it is, in fact, art (most of the time, anyway). And as art, it is responding to the time in which it is created. The author spends very little time telling you about the artists as people. He puts them and their art into context and explains how they ended up in the often very bizarre artistic places they did. If modern art baffles you, and you'd like to know just why the cubists decided to go that direction, or how Warhol decided soup cans were the art of the future, I definitely recommend this book. With one caveat - don't listen to the audiobook like I did. The narrator's straightforward read would do excellently in a more lecture-like history book, but the author of What Are You Looking At made an effort to be more personable, more accessible, and most of the jokes flew right by me at first due to the narrator's delivery.