12-Hour Art Expert

Everything You Need to Know about Art in a Dozen Masterpieces

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Noah Charney, author) Charney, Noah (Art historian

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"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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-10-30
Mått182 x 258 x 18 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538156599

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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.

DedicationList of Figures Acknowledgements 1: Art is for All2: Is It Even Art? Defining Art and the Human Need for Creativity3: Art as Object and Technique4: Find Crivelli’s Pickle. Saint Spotting 101, Iconography and the Covert Language of Art5: The Isms Cheat Sheet in 30 Paintings6: The “Complete”(ish) History of Sculpture7: When Bad Things Happen to Good Art: Conservation, Loss and Crime8: A Digital Light in the Forest: Hi-Tech Art History Reveals Secrets9: What Would Freud Say? Art, Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience10: Art and Value: The Art Market, Digitalization and How to Shop for Art11: Art History as Mystery: New Discoveries (and What Happens When the Experts Get it Wrong)12: The Future of ArtNotes on SourcesAbout the Author

'You do not need extensive training to understand art, much less to enjoy it,' asserts art historian Charney in this enlightening crash course. Determined to buck the 'intimidation problem' that’s plagued the art world for centuries, Charney moves through 12 chapters organized around a specific masterpiece—from Bernini’s 17th century Tomb of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni to Marcel Duchamp’s subversive Fountain (1917)—to offer readers an amiable tour through art history, terminology, and styles, as well as the relationship between the price of an artwork and its desirability:'an equation for the value of art: value = perceived (rarity + authenticity + demand).' Charney also revisits his deep fascination with authenticity, dissecting the fuss around Leonardo da Vinci’s famed works—which, he writes, have become a 'cultural currency'—to illustrate how art connoisseurship has engendered a thriving forgery industry. While he writes exaltingly of the art world, Charney keeps his narrative refreshingly grounded, empowering lay readers to better appreciate and understand works of art, but to also trust their instincts: 'Don’t be afraid to call ‘hogwash’ (or its synonym, BS) on artworks that you’ve given an honest chance.... I do it all the time.' Brimming with examples from across the artistic spectrum, this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts.