Bargain of the week: A New Way of Seeing

What makes great art great? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous, so much a part of who we are, we no longer really look at them.

Do we need a new way of seeing? The book shows that every truly great work is hardwired with an underappreciated detail, a flourish of strangeness.

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