{"id":392330,"date":"2022-12-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=392330"},"modified":"2022-12-01T03:43:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T03:43:51","slug":"book-celebrating-female-artists-scoops-waterstones-book-of-the-year-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/book-celebrating-female-artists-scoops-waterstones-book-of-the-year-title","title":{"rendered":"Book celebrating female artists scoops Waterstones Book Of The Year title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Story Of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel has been named the Waterstones Book Of The Year 2022.The non-fiction book, described as a &#8220;feast for the eyes&#8221;, overturns the reader&#8217;s sense of art history and challenges the narrative.Hessel is an art historian, presenter and curator dedicated to celebrating female artists and has founded The Great Women Artists and a podcast of the same name.She fought off competition from nine shortlisted titles who were vying for the accolade, which is awarded annually to a book published in the previous 12 months and is voted for by a panel of Waterstones booksellers.Kate Skipper, Waterstones chief operating officer, said: &#8220;Our booksellers championed The Story of Art Without Men from the start. It is a must-have for any booklover&#8217;s shelf, as essential as it is enjoyable.&#8220;Written with wit and ease, the resulting book, packed full of beautiful illustrations, can be devoured in one sitting or dipped into at a whim.&#8220;This is a book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story Of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel has been named the Waterstones Book Of The Year 2022. The non-fiction book, described as a &#8220;feast for the eyes&#8221;, overturns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}