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Art Theory Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 429,287 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,746 ratings — published 1973
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,234 ratings — published 1936
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,135 ratings — published 1980
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,791 ratings — published 1971
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,042 ratings — published 1912
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,105 ratings — published 1960
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,221 ratings — published 1980
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,246 ratings — published 1998
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 102,922 ratings — published 1994
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,050 ratings — published 1997
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,097 ratings — published 1967
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 457,555 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 — 532 ratings — published 1996
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,397 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 — 10,232 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 — 793 ratings — published 2017
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,220 ratings — published 1966
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,787 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 — 774 ratings — published 1985
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,370 ratings — published 1980
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,280 ratings — published 1983
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,744 ratings — published 1993
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,589 ratings — published 1970
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 26,477 ratings — published 1929
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,783 ratings — published 2003
The Theater and Its Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,755 ratings — published 1938
Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 570 ratings — published 1961
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,636 ratings — published 2002
Design as Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,886 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 — 3,972 ratings — published 1954
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,263 ratings — published 1964
Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 609 ratings — published 1985
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 377,397 ratings — published 1979
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,608 ratings — published 1933
On Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,290 ratings — published 1435
Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.60 — 590 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,015 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 4.09 — 18,601 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 — 332,098 ratings — published 2012
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,065 ratings — published 2007
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,839 ratings — published 2004
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,058 ratings — published 1957
Installation Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 224 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 — 48,464 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 — 912 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,718 ratings — published 2011
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 599 ratings — published 2012
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 393 ratings — published 1988
“Hasta en la reproducción más perfecta siempre faltará algo: el aquí y ahora de la obra de arte.”
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“Hume emphasized education and experience: men of taste acquire certain abilities that lead to agreement about which authors and artworks are the best. Such people, he felt, eventually will reach consensus, and in doing so, they set a ‘standard of taste’ which is universal. … Hume said men of taste must ‘preserve minds free from prejudice’, but thought no one should enjoy immoral attitudes or ‘vicious manners’ in art … Kant too spoke about judgements of taste but he was more concerned with explaining judgements of Beauty.
He aimed to show that good judgements in aesthetics are grounded in features of artworks themselves, not just in us and our preferences. Kant tried to describe our human abilities to perceive and categorize the world around us. There is a complex interplay among our mental faculties including perception, imagination, and intellect or judgement. Kant held that in order to function in the world to achieve our human purposes, we label much of what we sense, often in fairly unconscious ways.”
― Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Freeland, Oxford University Press
He aimed to show that good judgements in aesthetics are grounded in features of artworks themselves, not just in us and our preferences. Kant tried to describe our human abilities to perceive and categorize the world around us. There is a complex interplay among our mental faculties including perception, imagination, and intellect or judgement. Kant held that in order to function in the world to achieve our human purposes, we label much of what we sense, often in fairly unconscious ways.”
― Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Freeland, Oxford University Press
