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Art Criticism Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 422,910 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,883 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 452,176 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 — 24,007 ratings — published 1936
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,329 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 — 1,126 ratings — published 1990
The Painted Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,940 ratings — published 1975
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,040 ratings — published 1997
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 69,949 ratings — published 2008
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,099 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,501 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 — 6,056 ratings — published 1960
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,427 ratings — published 1997
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,010 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 — 3,577 ratings — published 1990
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,565 ratings — published 1897
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,313 ratings — published 2003
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,290 ratings — published 1912
The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 719 ratings — published 1993
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,740 ratings — published -335
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,127 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 4.08 — 256 ratings — published 1860
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 188 ratings — published 2015
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,239 ratings — published 1998
Figures of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 66 ratings — published 2012
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,562 ratings — published 2016
The Optical Unconscious (October Books)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 165 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 — 278 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,687 ratings — published 2011
Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.87 — 136 ratings — published 1998
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.27 — 626 ratings — published 2005
The Tradition of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 49 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 — 218 ratings — published 1972
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,695 ratings — published 2006
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 491 ratings — published 1974
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,161 ratings — published 1981
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.72 — 274 ratings — published 2002
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 48,168 ratings — published 1975
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,780 ratings — published 1934
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,106 ratings — published 2020
Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice: A Treatise, Critique, and Call to Action (Manifesto)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.34 — 303 ratings — published 2015
What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with art critics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 35 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 — 531 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 — 246 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
Formless: A User's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 187 ratings — published 1997
Materialist Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.62 — 21 ratings — published 1989
Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-criticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 92 ratings — published 1985
“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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“The critic will certainly be an interpreter, but he will not treat Art as a riddling Sphinx, whose shallow secret may be guessed and revealed by one whose feet are wounded and who knows not his name. Rather, he will look upon Art as a goddess whose mystery it is his province to intensify, and whose majesty his privilege to make more marvellous in the eyes of men.”
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
― The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
