Recommendations from our site
“When Berger published his art history in the 1970s, traditional attitudes were starting to break down around the representation of the nude body.” Read more...
The best books on Understanding the Nude
Annebella Pollen, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
“You have to understand the Marxist interpretation of art; it is absolutely fundamental to the way that art history departments now study the material. Then you have to critique it, because we’ve moved on from the 1970s and the collapse of Marxism in most of the world shows—amongst other things—that the model was flawed. But it’s still a very good book to read, for a teenager especially.” Read more...
The Best Art History Books for Teenagers
John Harrison, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
“He’s a Marxist and says that the role of publicity or branding is to make people marginally dissatisfied with their current way of life.” Read more...
Robert Jones, Entrepreneurs & Business People
Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
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
