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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Summary
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Walter Benjamin 1936 111 pages
4.08
24k+ ratings
Philosophy
Art
Theory
Concerning the Spiritual in Art Summary
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by Wassily Kandinsky 1912 80 pages
3.83
93k+ ratings
Art
Philosophy
Art History
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy Summary
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
by Michael Baxandall 1972 200 pages
3.95
3k+ ratings
Art
Art History
History
Art as Therapy Summary
Art as Therapy
by Alain de Botton 2013 240 pages
4.08
4k+ ratings
Art
Philosophy
Psychology
The Art Spirit Summary
The Art Spirit
by Robert Henri 1929 284 pages
3.87
27k+ ratings
Art
Philosophy
Art History
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Summary
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
by Andy Warhol 1975 272 pages
3.85
48k+ ratings
Art
Philosophy
Biography
Philosophy of Art Summary
Philosophy of Art
A Contemporary Introduction
by Noël Carroll 1999 288 pages
3.88
204 ratings
Philosophy
Art
Reference
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark Summary
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
by Don Thompson 2008 272 pages
3.87
6k+ ratings
Art
Economics
Business
Brunelleschi's Dome Summary
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by Ross King 1999 192 pages
3.91
28k+ ratings
History
Art
Architecture
The Art of the Con Summary
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by Anthony M. Amore 2015 264 pages
3.54
1k+ ratings
Art
True Crime
History
The Lost Painting Summary
The Lost Painting
The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr 2005
3.87
35k+ ratings
Art
History
Art History
History of Modern Art Summary
History of Modern Art
by H. Harvard Arnason 1968 848 pages
4.01
8k+ ratings
Art
Art History
History
Letters on Cézanne Summary
Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke 1907 112 pages
4.16
500+ ratings
Art
Poetry
Classics
Lives of the Artists Summary
Lives of the Artists
Portraits of Ten Artists Whose Work and Lifestyles Embody the Future of Contemporary Art
by Calvin Tomkins 2008 272 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Art
Biography
Essays
Provenance Summary
Provenance
How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
by Laney Salisbury 2009 327 pages
3.93
6k+ ratings
Art
True Crime
History
Leonardo and the Last Supper Summary
Leonardo and the Last Supper
by Ross King 2012 336 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
History
Art
Biography
Eye of the Beholder Summary
Eye of the Beholder
Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
by Laura J. Snyder 2015 448 pages
3.93
398 ratings
History
Science
Art
The Story of Art Without Men Summary
The Story of Art Without Men
by Katy Hessel 2022 352 pages
4.29
4k+ ratings
Art
History
Feminism
Bleu Summary
Bleu
Histoire d'une couleur
by Michel Pastoureau 2000 216 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Art
History
Art History
History of Beauty Summary
History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco 2004 438 pages
3.82
68k+ ratings
Art
History
Philosophy
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