{"product_id":"9781538156599","title":"The 12-Hour Art Expert","description":"\"Brimming with examples from across the artistic spectrum, this is the perfect primer to hook future art enthusiasts.\" Publishers Weekly\r\nInterested 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? \r\nThe 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. \r\nInstead, 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. \r\nEach 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.\r\nMuseums 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.","brand":"Noah Charney","offers":[{"title":"Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers |  Hardback | With dust jacket |  2022-10-30","offer_id":44151156572415,"sku":"9781538156599","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_3667d22e-4b7c-4aa3-aca1-c0663a8fe275.jpg?v=1668748306","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781538156599","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}