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Art Theory Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 432,300 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,159 ratings — published 1973
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,346 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,384 ratings — published 1980
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,022 ratings — published 1971
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,379 ratings — published 1912
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,116 ratings — published 1960
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,266 ratings — published 1980
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,249 ratings — published 1998
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 103,562 ratings — published 1994
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,051 ratings — published 1997
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,218 ratings — published 1967
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 460,081 ratings — published 1950
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 — 535 ratings — published 1996
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,420 ratings — published 1955
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,235 ratings — published 2002
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 798 ratings — published 2017
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,289 ratings — published 1966
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,793 ratings — published 1934
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 774 ratings — published 1985
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,513 ratings — published 1980
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,279 ratings — published 1983
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,128 ratings — published 1993
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,590 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 — 119,167 ratings — published 2002
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 26,693 ratings — published 1929
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,996 ratings — published 2003
The Theater and Its Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,770 ratings — published 1938
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 569 ratings — published 1961
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,981 ratings — published 1954
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,371 ratings — published 1964
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 613 ratings — published 1985
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,918 ratings — published 1966
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 378,828 ratings — published 1979
On Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,291 ratings — published 1435
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.60 — 592 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,083 ratings — published 1957
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 29,876 ratings — published 1933
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,888 ratings — published 2010
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 334,301 ratings — published 2012
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,085 ratings — published 2007
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,157 ratings — published 2004
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,106 ratings — published 1957
Installation Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 224 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 — 48,585 ratings — published 1975
Participation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 354 ratings — published 2006
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,091 ratings — published
What Art Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 914 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,735 ratings — published 2011
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 602 ratings — published 2012
“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 paternalised and colonised by every Tom, Dick or Harry that comes along (male or female).”
― Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts
― Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts
“At different times I've worked in different mediums. For me, the variation is not an artistic judgment, but a necessary choice. It's just as normal to eat with chopsticks, as it is to eat with forks or hands. Different circumstances call for different tools. I try to express ideas with the most appropriate available materials and forms. Very often the medium comes first, and then my reasons for it. Sometimes, I work with a medium I don't like out of curiosity. It is an experiment to challenge my pre-existing concepts and tastes. I've taken hundreds and thousands of photographs, and it's not because I like the medium. I wanted something to parallel my daily activities, and photography is the most logical way of doing that. I filmed documentaries because the medium reflects real conditions the most completely. I don't think artists should only work with what is handiest and most familiar, because the unfamiliar provides a challenge, and it creates another language. It defines the condition for new possibilities.”
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