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The best books on Modern British Painting
Chris Stephens, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Our most recommended books
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Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
by Victor Stoichita -
On Painting
by Leon Battista Alberti -
William Morris
by Linda Parry