Book Review
Gompertz’s book provides a comprehensive foundation for the basics of modern art. The concept of art is presented through themes including, power, religion, and politics, sexuality, technology and nature, visual culture, mind and body, and immortality. The book solidly illustrate the concept of art while giving examples of artwork in each instance; this not only helps in better understanding of the topic but also draws an explicit connection between what can be considered art and what is not. This book is very useful for doing in-depth research on the given topics it provides of information with black and white images to help in drawing a connection between different types of artwork by various artists across the world with a little effort. Also, artwork analyzed by the authors act as references for examining the topic.