# The 12-Hour Art Expert

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- Authors: [Noah Charney](https://www.bookquiver.com/noah-charney)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-10-30
- Genres: The Arts, Theory of art, History of art, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Architecture

## Description

" Brimming with examples from across the artistic spectrum, this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts." Publishers WeeklyInterested 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.

## Editions

### The 12-Hour Art Expert

- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- ISBN: 978-15-3815-659-9
- Pages: 184
- Published: 2022-10-30
- Language: en_US