Learning to contemplate certain works of art and developing artistic taste through their enjoyment can raise some questions. What will remain a century from now if humanity persists for another hundred years? Will there be any canon beyond the one that dictates distinction from others, originality? Are we, as contemporaries, capable of distinguishing the beautiful from the merely pretty, painting from design? Juan-Ramón Capella's personal journey gives rise to critical reflections such as these: on the commodification of the work of art, transformed into an object of investment, museums, and the trends in contemporary art.

In his exploration, the author sets aside the "less pleasant" subjects to which he has dedicated himself (the philosophy of law and political philosophy) to think, he says, "about the emotions that some works of art have stirred in me, and thus to remember them, to re-experience, as far as possible, what I felt when contemplating them, and to share it." This is not, therefore, the book of a specialist in the visual arts, but of a layperson. But a layperson who "can't stand bad taste." An invitation, in short, to discover that not everything goes.