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Art World Books
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Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.62 — 74,129 ratings — published 2008
An Object of Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 118,159 ratings — published 2010
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
by (shelved 14 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.32 — 94,405 ratings — published 2011
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,463 ratings — published 2008
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.91 — 129,656 ratings — published 2023
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,861 ratings — published 2016
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,801 ratings — published 2023
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,092,125 ratings — published 2013
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 99,116 ratings — published 2012
Anita de Monte Laughs Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.78 — 50,656 ratings — published 2024
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,087 ratings — published 2019
We Are Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 58,105 ratings — published 2013
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,774 ratings — published 2009
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,991 ratings — published 2009
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 251,855 ratings — published 2021
The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.92 — 199 ratings — published 2017
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,679,357 ratings — published 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.58 — 631,986 ratings — published 2018
Art Collecting Today: Market Insights for Everyone Passionate about Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.82 — 112 ratings — published
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.84 — 97,906 ratings — published 1912
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.21 — 387,833 ratings — published 2010
The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.83 — 286 ratings — published 2014
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,796 ratings — published 2012
The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 576 ratings — published 2012
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,872 ratings — published
Sirens & Muses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,577 ratings — published 2022
Still Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.25 — 34,189 ratings — published 2018
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.23 — 227,042 ratings — published 2022
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,360,689 ratings — published 2017
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.95 — 462,029 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.85 — 241,641 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 486,624 ratings — published 1950
People of the Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.04 — 160,805 ratings — published 2008
Maestra (Maestra #1)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 2.85 — 16,592 ratings — published 2016
Shadow Tag (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,934 ratings — published 2010
Playing to the Gallery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,944 ratings — published 2014
Cat's Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,119 ratings — published 1988
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,350 ratings — published 2006
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,512 ratings — published 2009
Breakfast at Sotheby's: An A-Z of the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 879 ratings — published 2013
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,433 ratings — published 2013
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.97 — 66,836 ratings — published 2010
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.08 — 118,772 ratings — published 1914
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.41 — 720,019 ratings — published 2023
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.30 — 645,973 ratings — published 2025
Flat Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.10 — 2,229 ratings — published 2025
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,830 ratings — published 2025
Relic (Pendergast, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.05 — 118,686 ratings — published 1995
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,505 ratings — published 2024
Wish You Were Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-world)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,854 ratings — published 2021
“Enlighten yourself and you will enlighten the viewer. - Jean-Christophe Ammann”
― Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
― Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
“Artists are one the final holdouts. Virtually every profession is being driven towards commodification. And corporations, with their profit-driven standardization, building consensus, obfuscation, and aversion to risk, are the ENEMY of art.”
― Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
― Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
