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Art Criticism Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 432,886 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,234 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 460,570 ratings — published 1950
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,369 ratings — published 1936
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,432 ratings — published 1955
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,132 ratings — published 1990
The Painted Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,982 ratings — published 1975
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,051 ratings — published 1997
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,009 ratings — published 2008
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,310 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,450 ratings — published 1980
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,120 ratings — published 1960
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,439 ratings — published 1997
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 29,940 ratings — published 1933
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,628 ratings — published 1990
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,616 ratings — published 1897
Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 135 ratings — published 1998
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,055 ratings — published 2003
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,425 ratings — published 1912
The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 720 ratings — published 1993
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,323 ratings — published -335
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,275 ratings — published 1980
Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 58 ratings — published 2004
Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 258 ratings — published 1860
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.82 — 190 ratings — published 2015
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,251 ratings — published 1998
Figures of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.61 — 67 ratings — published 2012
The Conspiracy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 844 ratings — published 1999
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,263 ratings — published 2016
The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 167 ratings — published 1993
Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 283 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,741 ratings — published 2011
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.27 — 628 ratings — published 2005
The Tradition of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 51 ratings — published 1959
The Anxious Object: Art Today and its Audience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.80 — 30 ratings — published 1969
Selected Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 220 ratings — published 1972
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,757 ratings — published 2006
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.76 — 492 ratings — published 1974
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,200 ratings — published 1981
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 275 ratings — published 2002
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,604 ratings — published 1975
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,794 ratings — published 1934
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,470 ratings — published 2023
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,267 ratings — published 2020
The Tears of Eros (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,138 ratings — published 1961
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 382 ratings — published 2015
What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with art critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.25 — 36 ratings — published
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 535 ratings — published 1996
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" (Icons of America)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 250 ratings — published 2009
Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2011
“The worst thing you can do to an artist is demand they explain themselves. Stanislavsky said a raised voice has no place in art — nor does cross-examination. An ambiguous space to breathe in is the lifeblood of all creativity. Despite the implied tag of ownership from financial benefactors, the artist must resist becoming a preserved butterfly on a pin for study.”
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“In the best of circumstances, I am boorish enough to tell artists that I best like pieces that look like things. I am not to be trusted with my edification.”
― Holidays with Bigfoot
― Holidays with Bigfoot
