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Recommendations from our site
“Brief informed surveys of complicated subjects are always helpful so I was pleased to see a new book in the Yale University Press Little Histories series: art critic Charlotte Mullions taking on 100,000 years of art history in A Little History of Art. Theoretically aimed at young adults, these books are great for older adults too.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Spring 2022
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg -
The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
by Victor Stoichita -
Effie in Venice
by Mary Lutyens -
Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy
by Ruth Barcan