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Art Criticism Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,634 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,018 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 — 24,619 ratings — published 1936
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,510 ratings — published 1955
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 464,572 ratings — published 1950
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,135 ratings — published 1990
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,439 ratings — published 1966
The Painted Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,993 ratings — published 1975
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058 ratings — published 1997
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,927 ratings — published 1980
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,507 ratings — published 2008
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,130 ratings — published 1960
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,440 ratings — published 1997
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,666 ratings — published 1933
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 191 ratings — published 2015
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,653 ratings — published 1990
The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 168 ratings — published 1993
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,670 ratings — published 1897
Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 135 ratings — published 1998
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,609 ratings — published 2003
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,963 ratings — published 1912
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 275 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
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,680 ratings — published -335
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,327 ratings — published 1980
Formless: A User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 191 ratings — published 1997
Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 58 ratings — published 2004
Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 260 ratings — published 1860
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,261 ratings — published 1998
Figures of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 69 ratings — published 2012
The Conspiracy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 848 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 — 34,763 ratings — published 2016
Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 698 ratings — published 2015
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 285 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,774 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 — 51 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 — 223 ratings — published 1972
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,770 ratings — published 2006
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.76 — 493 ratings — published 1974
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 572 ratings — published 1961
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,232 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 — 48,735 ratings — published 1975
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,803 ratings — published 1934
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 22,224 ratings — published 2023
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,380 ratings — published 2020
The Tears of Eros (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,146 ratings — published 1961
What Comes After Farce (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 150 ratings — published 2020
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.28 — 425 ratings — published 2015
“The defining elements of criticism, the theory, the philosophy, and ideas behind it, are the same no matter what type of critique you're writing.”
― Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
― Music Journalism 101: The definitive resource for new and established writers
“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).”
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
― Sweet Nothings: Notes And Texts
