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History Of Art Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 457,066 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 428,749 ratings — published 1972
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,757 ratings — published 2004
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.78 — 39,029 ratings — published 1962
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,067 ratings — published 2007
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,790 ratings — published 1926
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,900 ratings — published 1550
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,666 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,009 ratings — published 2022
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,486 ratings — published 1988
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,913 ratings — published 1971
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,015 ratings — published 1972
The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 235 ratings — published 1983
Perspective as Symbolic Form (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 648 ratings — published 1927
Caravaggio: The Complete Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.60 — 534 ratings — published 2009
Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,038 ratings — published
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,054 ratings — published 1999
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,727 ratings — published 2006
Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.26 — 399 ratings — published 1988
On Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,290 ratings — published 1435
Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.25 — 577 ratings — published 2001
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 109,835 ratings — published 1914
Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.14 — 394 ratings — published 1988
The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums... and Why We Need to Talk About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,988 ratings — published 2020
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,880 ratings — published 2002
Albert and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.57 — 521 ratings — published
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 84,981 ratings — published 2023
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,614 ratings — published 2018
Meaning in the Visual Arts (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.13 — 675 ratings — published 1955
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,233 ratings — published 2002
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.27 — 629 ratings — published 2005
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,225 ratings — published 1936
Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works (Over-sized Hardcover - 12" x 16")
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.57 — 775 ratings — published 2013
The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French Revolution (Picturing History)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 46 ratings — published 1996
On n'y voit rien : Descriptions (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,011 ratings — published 2000
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,101 ratings — published 1960
The End of the History of Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.76 — 136 ratings — published 1983
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,624 ratings — published 1968
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,733 ratings — published 2012
Art and Feminism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.34 — 179 ratings — published 2001
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,098 ratings — published 1980
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,745 ratings — published 2000
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,721 ratings — published 1757
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 419 ratings — published 1998
Histoires de peintures (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 360 ratings — published 2004
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (Oxford History of Art)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 351 ratings — published
What Great Paintings Say (Taschen 25 Anniversary)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.40 — 549 ratings — published 2000
A World History of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 693 ratings — published 1982
The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-century Art and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 73 ratings — published 1989
Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion and Collecting in England and France (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as history-of-art)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1976
“رامبراند بر این نظر بود که راهنمای هنرمند فقط باید طبیعت باشد و نه هیچ قاعده و ضابطه ای دیگر، منظور رامبراند از این گفتار همان بود که پیش از وی کاراوادجو و لاستمن نیز بیان داشته بودند: پرهیز از پیکرهای زیبای آرمانی که مطلوب سنت سبک ایتالیا بود، پرهیز از نقاشی هایی که از ایده های تناسب کامل و ترسیم درست فضایل عالی نشأت گیرد. هنرمند باید به دنیای واقعی پیرامون خویش و مردمی که در کوچه و بازار بر گرد خویش می بیند بنگرد و مدل های تابلوهای خویش را از بین مردم ساده و خامدست و معمولی برگزیند نه صرفا به قصد آن که توصیف واقعگرایانه ی صحیحی را ارائه دهد بلکه بدان منظور که به هنر نقاشی جنبه ای دموکرات وار و مردمی ببخشد و حالت نجیب زادگی و اشرافیت تصنعی را از فضای تابلوها بزداید، به آثار نقاشی خاصیت تاثیرگذاری دراماتیکی بدهد، و با این عمل، از درک دنیای پیرامون خویش و آنچه واقعا در آن می گذرد لذتی واقعی ببرد.”
― Rembrandt: A Life
― Rembrandt: A Life
“اهل تئاتر غالبا رامبراند را شکسپیر نقاشان می نامند، زیرا استعداد و توانایی این صورتگر در نمایاندن عمق ذات شخصیت های گوناگون، شفقتی که نسبت به شخصیت های هر یک از تابلوهایش نشان می دهد، چیره دستی حیرت آور او در دریافت لحظه های بسیار حساس و چشمگیر و مجسم ساختن بسیار دقیق و زیرکانه ی آن لحظه ها بر پرده ی نقاشی، آن چنان است که وی را به آسانی با شکسپیر قابل مقایسه می سازد، با این تفاوت که شکسپیر در کار خود از کلمات یاری می گیرد و رامبراند از قلم مو و رنگ ها مدد می جوید.”
― Rembrandt: A Life
― Rembrandt: A Life
