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Art History Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 405 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 454,594 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 425,795 ratings — published 1972
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,662 ratings — published 1926
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,870 ratings — published 1550
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 773,794 ratings — published 1999
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,484 ratings — published 2004
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,757 ratings — published 2002
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 109,274 ratings — published 1914
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,994 ratings — published 1999
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,846 ratings — published 1962
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,066 ratings — published 2009
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,525 ratings — published 2006
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,697 ratings — published 1912
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,972 ratings — published 1961
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,670 ratings — published 2005
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,104 ratings — published 2017
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,943 ratings — published 2022
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 82,330 ratings — published 2023
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,010 ratings — published 1972
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook)
by (shelved 84 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,710 ratings — published 2012
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 165,635 ratings — published 1997
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,720 ratings — published 1994
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,388 ratings — published 2016
Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,657 ratings — published
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,220 ratings — published 1980
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,342 ratings — published 2008
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,233 ratings — published 2002
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,047 ratings — published 2003
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,706 ratings — published 2006
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,404 ratings — published 2011
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,035 ratings — published 2007
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,332 ratings — published 2012
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,751 ratings — published 2011
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,081 ratings — published 1960
The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,870 ratings — published 2001
History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,211 ratings — published 1969
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,607 ratings — published 1968
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,640 ratings — published 2009
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,244 ratings — published 1988
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (Annotated Series) (Volume 3)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,478 ratings — published 1992
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,853 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 418 ratings — published 1998
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,165 ratings — published 1995
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,824 ratings — published 1980
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 62,502 ratings — published 2010
Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,333 ratings — published 2003
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,048 ratings — published 2008
Leonardo and the Last Supper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,001 ratings — published 2012
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,945 ratings — published 1983
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,110 ratings — published 1936
“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction.”
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“[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis.”
― The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
― The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context
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