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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 — 450,283 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,805 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 — 25,125 ratings — published 1936
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,675 ratings — published 1955
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 475,768 ratings — published 1950
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,804 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,717 ratings — published 1980
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,066 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 — 1,137 ratings — published 1990
The Painted Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,052 ratings — published 1975
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,613 ratings — published 2008
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,076 ratings — published 2003
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,185 ratings — published 1960
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,857 ratings — published 1934
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,445 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 3.72 — 3,788 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
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,309 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 — 720 ratings — published 1993
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,618 ratings — published 2020
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,598 ratings — published -335
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,492 ratings — published 1980
Formless: A User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 194 ratings — published 1997
Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 58 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 — 194 ratings — published 2015
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,275 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 — 871 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 — 35,945 ratings — published 2016
Portraits: John Berger on Artists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 713 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 — 3,726 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 — 3,847 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 3.92 — 53 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 — 17,801 ratings — published 2006
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.76 — 497 ratings — published 1974
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 581 ratings — published 1961
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,292 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 — 49,163 ratings — published 1975
Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 447 ratings — published 2016
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 24,126 ratings — published 2023
The Tears of Eros (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,181 ratings — published 1961
What Comes After Farce (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 155 ratings — published 2020
What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with art critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 35 ratings — published
“It is a mistake to think of publicity supplanting the visual art of post-Renaissance Europe; it is the last moribund form of that art.”
― Ways of Seeing
― Ways of Seeing
“I just wanted to do something important.”
― Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator
― Norman Rockwell: My Adventures as an Illustrator