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Art Criticism Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 445,539 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,259 ratings — published 1973
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,976 ratings — published 1936
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,631 ratings — published 1955
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 471,592 ratings — published 1950
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,687 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,077 ratings — published 1980
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,064 ratings — published 1997
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,134 ratings — published 1990
The Painted Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,030 ratings — published 1975
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,269 ratings — published 2008
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,167 ratings — published 1960
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,842 ratings — published 1934
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,444 ratings — published 1997
The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 169 ratings — published 1993
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,750 ratings — published 1897
Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 134 ratings — published 1998
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,644 ratings — published 2003
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,857 ratings — published 1912
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 277 ratings — published 2002
The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 719 ratings — published 1993
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,552 ratings — published 2020
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,286 ratings — published -335
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,433 ratings — published 1980
Formless: A User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 193 ratings — published 1997
Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 57 ratings — published 2004
Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 265 ratings — published 1860
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 193 ratings — published 2015
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,268 ratings — published 1998
Figures of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 71 ratings — published 2012
The Conspiracy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 860 ratings — published 1999
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,529 ratings — published 2016
Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 710 ratings — published 2015
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,698 ratings — published 1990
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 285 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,824 ratings — published 2011
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.27 — 633 ratings — published 2005
The Tradition of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 52 ratings — published 1959
The Anxious Object: Art Today and its Audience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 30 ratings — published 1969
Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 224 ratings — published 1972
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,780 ratings — published 2006
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 497 ratings — published 1974
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 576 ratings — published 1961
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,278 ratings — published 1981
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,013 ratings — published 1975
Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 441 ratings — published 2016
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.67 — 23,494 ratings — published 2023
The Tears of Eros (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,173 ratings — published 1961
What Comes After Farce (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 154 ratings — published 2020
What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with art critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 36 ratings — published
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ”
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“The arbitrary influences affecting artists' vocabularies are many, and not necessarily all beneficial. The limiting trends of the day, the biting criticism, or the instruction insistent upon getting us to conform against our temperament can affect the work in profound ways, sometimes stalling us for decades.”
― Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
― Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
