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
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
After the End of Art
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
The Painted Word
Seven Days in the Art World
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Art as Experience
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottCritical Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” by Emre GurgenFlash of the Spirit by Robert Farris ThompsonAfrican Art by Frank WillettThe Image of the Black in Western Art by David Bindman
The Books On Black Art History
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Jane Allen Petrick
Norman Rockwell saved my life.
Jane Allen Petrick, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America

Kamand Kojouri
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.
Kamand Kojouri

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