Art History

The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts including painting, sculpture and architecture. Considered encyclopedically, the history of art is an attempt to survey art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods by their distinguishing features. This is undertaken by people and institutions with diverging goals, but whose efforts interrelate, including: academic art historians, museum curators, auction house personnel, private collectors, and religious adherents. Given these agendas, it is unsurprising that there are many ways of structuring a history of art, as ...more

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Mona's Eyes
The Artist
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Perspective(s)
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Tiffany Girls
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart: What Art Teaches Us About the Wonder and Struggle of Being Alive
The Last Mona Lisa
The Keeper of Lost Art
The Secret Painter
The Painter's Daughters
The Story of Art
Ways of Seeing
Art Through the Ages
The Lives of the Artists
Girl with a Pearl Earring
History of Beauty
History of Art
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
The Story of Art Without Men
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsThe Four Books of Architecture by Andrea PalladioGraphic Design by Ellen LuptonNeon Spectacular by Kody ShaferA Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander
Design Library
35 books — 4 voters
The Dot by Peter H. ReynoldsIsh by Peter H. ReynoldsHarold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonBeautiful Oops [Board book] by Barney SaltzbergNot a Box by Antoinette Portis
Great Books for the Elementary Art Room
184 books — 50 voters

Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art by Jennifer MilamMaking Up the Rococo by Melissa HydeTurquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728–1876 by Nebahat AvcıoğluThe Monkeys of Christophe Huet by Nicole Garnier-PelleEnlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art by Sarah Cohen
Arts of the Rococo
26 books — 1 voter


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There is really no such thing as art history...only art historians...and the books that they write.
John-Paul Stonard

Thomas Bernhard
The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it with their twaddle. Art is killed by the twaddle of the art historians. My God, I often think, sitting here on the settee while the art historians are driving their helpless flocks past me, what a pity about all these people who have all art driven out of them, driven out of them for good, by these very art historians. The art historians’ trade is the vilest trade t ...more
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