Full Description
"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.
Contents
Dedication
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1: Art is for All
2: Is It Even Art? Defining Art and the Human Need for Creativity
3: Art as Object and Technique
4: Find Crivelli's Pickle. Saint Spotting 101, Iconography and the Covert Language of Art
5: The Isms Cheat Sheet in 30 Paintings
6: The "Complete"(ish) History of Sculpture
7: When Bad Things Happen to Good Art: Conservation, Loss and Crime
8: A Digital Light in the Forest: Hi-Tech Art History Reveals Secrets
9: What Would Freud Say? Art, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
10: Art and Value: The Art Market, Digitalization and How to Shop for Art
11: Art History as Mystery: New Discoveries (and What Happens When the Experts Get it Wrong)
12: The Future of Art
Notes on Sources
About the Author
