Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) Michael Atavar's Creative Courses From Tate: Experiments In Everyday Seeing

Michael Atavar

Softcover | 11.5 x 1.1 x 14.8 cm | 128 pp

Kiosk Publishing | 2013 | 9780953107353

Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with contemporary art, using the gallery as a conduit to feeling and includes 52 exercises (with plenty of tips to assist you) for your next visit to the modern art museum. 

"This book is about the power of art. The room, the art gallery, only has four walls but it can expand, through your perceptions, to contain much more. Perhaps it can be everything? My volume confers value on you, the viewer, as the potential artist. It makes you, for the moment of looking, the centre of things. It encourages you to trust your own intuition.

Step into a new version of reality.

In my own history, the gallery has been an important place, an area of discovery, of experiment. When l couldn't access these ideas in real life, the exhibition space gave me the opportunity to take a chance, to play. And so allowed me to explore the boundaries of myself - through visual image, philosophy, new experiences, shock.

I became the artist by being there.

Therefore, I offer this book to you with a full heart, knowing the impact that art has had on me. I trust that it can have the same effect on you.

Look, see, feel." Michael Atavar