Art Criticism


Ways of Seeing
On Photography
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
The Story of Art
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]
After the End of Art
The Painted Word
Seven Days in the Art World
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottFlash of the Spirit by Robert Farris ThompsonAfrican Art by Frank WillettThe Image of the Black in Western Art by David BindmanColored Pictures by Michael D. Harris
The Books On Black Art History
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I retain, but suspend, my personal taste to deal with the panoply of the art I see. I have a trick for doing justice to an uncongenial work: “What would I like about this if I liked it?” I may come around; I may not. Failing that, I wonder, What must the people who like this be like? Anthropology.
Peter Schjeldahl

Jane Allen Petrick
Norman Rockwell saved my life.
Jane Allen Petrick, Hidden in Plain Sight: The Other People in Norman Rockwell's America

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