The 12-hour art expert : everything you need to know about art in a dozen masterpieces / Noah Charney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charney, Noah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

"... 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.

Contents:

Art is for All

Is It Even Art? Defining Art and the Human Need for Creativity

Art as Object and Technique

Find Crivelli's Pickle. Saint Spotting 101, Iconography and the Covert Language of Art

The Isms Cheat Sheet in 30 Paintings

The "Complete"(ish) History of Sculpture

When Bad Things Happen to Good Art: Conservation, Loss and Crime

A Digital Light in the Forest: Hi-Tech Art History Reveals Secrets

What Would Freud Say? Art, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

Art and Value: The Art Market, Digitalization and How to Shop for Art

Art History as Mystery: New Discoveries (and What Happens When the Experts Get it Wrong)

The Future of Art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-8182-821-9

1-5381-5660-1

OCLC:

1290722666