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

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 painti ngs 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.