01998cam a2200241 4500 608916479 TxAuBib 20221109120000.0 221013s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781538156599 1538156598 TxAuBib Charney, Noah. The 12-hour art expert : everything you need to know about art in a dozen masterpieces / Noah Charney. Twelve-hour art expert. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] xi, 169 pages : illustrations (chiefly color.) Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index. 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 thirty Paintings -- The "Complete"(ish) History of Sculpture -- When Bad Things Happen to Good Art: Conservation, Loss and Crime -- A Digital Light in the Forest: High-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. 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. 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. 20221109. Art appreciation.