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The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces

The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces

Charney, Noah

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1538156598
ISBN13: 9781538156599
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: Oct 30 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.55 Width: 7.26 Depth: 10.07
Language: English
Brimming with examples from across the artistic spectrum, this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts. Publishers Weekly Interested in art but feel under-informed? Curious but afraid you might not get it? Already a fan and wishing to immerse yourself in a fun, engaging, informative and informed read that will refresh and top up your Art History 101 and Introduction to Art courses from college? The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces avoids the common approach of throwing hundreds of images at a reader and expecting them to learn from and memorize them all. Instead, the book will guide its readers through a brief series of masterpieces of Western art--from cave paintings to sharks in formaldehyde. This book twelve chapters teach readers about art, the art trade, and art history in a thorough (though concise) fashion. Each chapter is linked to one notable masterpiece, with references to others, giving readers a fixed, digestible number of objects that they will get to know in depth, and which they can use as a lens to understand the thousands of other, related objects that they might encounter in the future. Museums can be daunting, and art presents a strange new language, one that certainly intrigues but is often intimidating and foreign. This book, written by one of the world's best-known art historians uses entertaining stories to break down intimidating barriers and invites readers of all ages for a one-stop immersion into art.

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