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The 12-Hour Art Expert
Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces
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This book is ideal for readers new to art who want an informed yet enjoyable introduction, as well as for those with some knowledge looking to refresh and deepen their understanding of art history and the art market.
"... this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts." Publishers Weekly - The 12-Hour Art Expert: Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces provides a fun, full-color, crash course in art appreciation in a down-to-earth, quirky, and personal manner by one of the world's best-known art historians.
An art education in one book delivered by one of the world's best-known art historians.
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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 memorise them all. Instead, the book will guide its readers through a brief series of masterpieces of Western artโfrom cave paintings to sharks in formaldehyde. This book's 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 worldโs 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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Critics praise Charney's book as an enlightening and amiable crash course that dismantles the 'intimidation problem' of the art world. It offers a grounded exploration of art history, terminology, value, and authenticity, empowering readers to appreciate art and trust their own judgement. The work is noted for its entertaining storytelling and fresh approach to engaging a broad audience.
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ISBN: 9781538156599
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 30 October 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Illustration: 48 colour photos
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 182.0mm
Height: 258.0mm
Weight: 600g
Pages: 184
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About the Author
Noah Charney is an internationally best-selling author of more than a dozen books and a professor of art history specializing in art crime. His novel, The Art Thief, was a bestseller in five countries and is translated into 17 languages. His The Art of Forgery, Stealing the Mystic Lamb and Slovenology were international bestsellers. His book Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Charney is now a professor at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.
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