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
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Perspective(s)
The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
The Keeper of Lost Art
The Tiffany Girls
Costanza
Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
The Painter's Daughters
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
The Secret Painter
The Story of Art
Ways of Seeing
Art Through the Ages
The Lives of the Artists
Girl with a Pearl Earring
History of Beauty
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
History of Art
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
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more negotiable genealogy and interpretative communities.
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