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Art Theory Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,766 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,148 ratings — published 1973
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,944 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,954 ratings — published 1980
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,013 ratings — published 1963
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,795 ratings — published 1912
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,163 ratings — published 1960
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,268 ratings — published 1998
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,423 ratings — published 1980
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,499 ratings — published 1994
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 470,925 ratings — published 1950
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,064 ratings — published 1997
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,951 ratings — published 1967
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,232 ratings — published 2002
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 539 ratings — published 1996
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,622 ratings — published 1955
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 821 ratings — published 2017
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,839 ratings — published 1934
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,572 ratings — published 2003
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 779 ratings — published 1985
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,661 ratings — published 1966
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,788 ratings — published 1929
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,984 ratings — published 1980
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,282 ratings — published 1983
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,309 ratings — published 1993
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,618 ratings — published 1970
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,038 ratings — published 2002
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,017 ratings — published 1954
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 383,676 ratings — published 1979
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 575 ratings — published 1961
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 633 ratings — published 1985
On Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,317 ratings — published 1435
The Theater and Its Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,876 ratings — published 1938
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,954 ratings — published 1964
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,130 ratings — published 1966
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,153 ratings — published 2007
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,453 ratings — published 2004
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.60 — 607 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,413 ratings — published 1957
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,437 ratings — published 1957
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,677 ratings — published 1933
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,160 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,210 ratings — published 2008
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 343,728 ratings — published 2012
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Volume 35) (California Studies in the History of Art)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,245 ratings — published 1995
The Future of the Image (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 563 ratings — published 2003
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,881 ratings — published 1944
Installation Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 228 ratings — published 2005
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,982 ratings — published 1975
Participation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 356 ratings — published 2006
“I immerse myself in sketching on my phone, tapping my stylus against the corner when I’m thinking through my design. I love the way there’s direction and guidance for something as wild and emotional as art, so some of my favorite books to read are on art theory.
But the best learning comes from practice, after being guided by the lessons in the books.”
― The Charmed List
But the best learning comes from practice, after being guided by the lessons in the books.”
― The Charmed List
“Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I'm struck by how much they see and how much they know--and how much I don't.
Good art writing should therefore do at least two things. It should teach us how to look: at art, architecture, sculpture, photography and all the other visual components of our daily landscape. And it should give us the information we need to understand what we're looking at.”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
Good art writing should therefore do at least two things. It should teach us how to look: at art, architecture, sculpture, photography and all the other visual components of our daily landscape. And it should give us the information we need to understand what we're looking at.”
― Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
