Art Criticism


Ways of Seeing
On Photography
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
The Story of Art
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
The Painted Word
After the End of Art
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]
Seven Days in the Art World
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
In Praise of Shadows
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottFlash of the Spirit by Robert Farris ThompsonAfrican Art by Frank WillettThe Image of the Black in Western Art by David BindmanColored Pictures by Michael D. Harris
The Books On Black Art History
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I write about my own work because I want to speak for myself. I might not be the only authority, nor the best authority, but I want to participate in the writing of my own history. Why should artists be validated by outside authorities. I don't like being paternalism and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female). ...more
Marlene Dumas, Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts

María Gainza
Isn’t all artwork—or all decent art—a mirror? Might a great painting not even reformulate the question what is it about to what am I about? Isn’t theory also in some sense always autobiography?
María Gainza, El nervio óptico

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books that trigger dialogue about craft in contemporary culture
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Babette Reads Challenges, discussions and recommendations from Babette Press. Art critical, queer & pop cultur…more
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