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Best Books on Visual Art

Rank Title Author Added

1

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

by E. H. Gombrich

1,124 members

5 reviews

4

2 Members: smcwl, Nicole_VanK

2

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres

1,145 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: smcwl, aulsmith

3

Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction

233 members

4

2 Members: smcwl, Nicole_VanK

4

Abstraction in Art and Nature

by Nathan Cabot Hale

71 members

½ 4.3

2 Members: smcwl, aulsmith

5

Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Tastes, Fashion and Collecting in England and France

by Francis Haskell

44 members

5

2 Members: smcwl, Nicole_VanK

6

The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer

by Erwin Panofsky

241 members

½ 4.4

2 Members: smcwl, Nicole_VanK

7

Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character

by Erwin Panofsky

128 members

½ 4.4

2 Members: smcwl, Nicole_VanK

8

Purposes of Art: An Introduction to the History and Appreciation of Art

by Albert Elsen

130 members

1 review

4.2

2 Members: smcwl, Nicole_VanK

9

Stained Glass: From Its Origins to the Present

by Virginia Chieffo Raguin

44 members

1 review

4.8

Member: AnnaClaire

10

Americans in Paris, 1860-1900

by Kathleen Adler

125 members

4

Member: AnnaClaire

11

Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox

by Victoria Finlay

2,216 members

29 reviews

3.9

Member: AnnaClaire

12

The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century

by Albert Boime

20 members

Member: Nicole_VanK

13

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

1,131 members

24 reviews

4

Member: AnnaClaire

14

Lorenzo Ghiberti

by Richard Krautheimer

27 members

Member: Nicole_VanK

15

Patrons and Painters: A Study in the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque

by Francis Haskell

125 members

1 review

4.8

Member: Nicole_VanK

16

The Materials of Sculpture

by Nicholas Penny

57 members

½ 4.5

Member: Nicole_VanK

17

Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko

by Robert Rosenblum

100 members

3

Member: Nicole_VanK

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September 2012
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