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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 452,200 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,057 ratings — published 1973
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,197 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,995 ratings — published 1980
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,394 ratings — published 1963
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,470 ratings — published 1912
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,193 ratings — published 1960
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 477,409 ratings — published 1950
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,278 ratings — published 1998
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 107,838 ratings — published 1994
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,518 ratings — published 1980
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,070 ratings — published 1997
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,326 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 — 10,237 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 4.04 — 542 ratings — published 1996
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,698 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 — 838 ratings — published 2017
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,862 ratings — published 1934
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,856 ratings — published 1966
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,252 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 — 780 ratings — published 1985
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,218 ratings — published 1929
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,168 ratings — published 1980
The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,286 ratings — published 1983
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,274 ratings — published 1993
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,632 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 — 123,258 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 — 4,026 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 — 386,637 ratings — published 1979
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 580 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 — 643 ratings — published 1985
On Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,327 ratings — published 1435
The Theater and Its Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,932 ratings — published 1938
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,239 ratings — published 1964
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,233 ratings — published 1966
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,184 ratings — published 2007
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,948 ratings — published 2004
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,569 ratings — published 1957
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,773 ratings — published 2010
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 348,874 ratings — published 2012
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.59 — 612 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,596 ratings — published 1957
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,505 ratings — published 1933
What Art Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.67 — 956 ratings — published 2013
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,736 ratings — published 2008
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 — 1,246 ratings — published 1995
The Future of the Image (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 565 ratings — published 2003
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,911 ratings — published 1944
Installation Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 230 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 — 49,218 ratings — published 1975
“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
“Because most art relies upon sensorial cues, most art is a manifestation of empiricism. The senses form the tools that allow both the artist and the scientist to understand the nature of their subject. Observable data, and the interpretation of that observable data, is as fundamental to an artist as it is to a scientist.”
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