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Art Theory Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 424,126 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,110 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 — 24,053 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,671 ratings — published 1980
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,436 ratings — published 1971
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,509 ratings — published 1912
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,142 ratings — published 1980
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,068 ratings — published 1960
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,240 ratings — published 1998
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,824 ratings — published 1994
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,042 ratings — published 1997
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,884 ratings — published 1967
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 453,183 ratings — published 1950
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 531 ratings — published 1996
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,349 ratings — published 1955
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,233 ratings — published 2002
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 785 ratings — published 2017
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,123 ratings — published 1966
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,781 ratings — published 1934
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 771 ratings — published 1985
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,157 ratings — published 1993
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,138 ratings — published 1980
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,277 ratings — published 1983
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,582 ratings — published 1970
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 26,048 ratings — published 1929
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,387 ratings — published 2003
The Theater and Its Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,720 ratings — published 1938
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 568 ratings — published 1961
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,824 ratings — published 1966
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,969 ratings — published 1954
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,098 ratings — published 1964
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 117,818 ratings — published 2002
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 604 ratings — published 1985
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,112 ratings — published 1933
On Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,288 ratings — published 1435
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 375,084 ratings — published 1979
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.60 — 584 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,911 ratings — published 1957
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,033 ratings — published 2010
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 328,398 ratings — published 2012
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,026 ratings — published 2007
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,321 ratings — published 2004
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,986 ratings — published 1957
Installation Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 221 ratings — published 2005
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 48,218 ratings — published 1975
Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 353 ratings — published 2006
What Art Is (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 899 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,692 ratings — published 2011
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 591 ratings — published 2012
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 389 ratings — published 1988
“Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and philosophical errors of humanity, and they could not have done this without their belief in the absolute truth of these errors. Now if the belief in such truth generally diminishes, if the rainbow colors at the outermost ends of human knowing and imagining fade: then the species of art that, like the Divina commedia, Raphael's pictures, Michelangelo's frescoes, the Gothic cathedrals, presupposes not only a cosmic, but also a metaphysical significance for art objects can never blossom again. A touching tale will come of this, that there was once such an art, such belief by artists.”
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
― Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“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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