Bookworms: Crash Course in Art History and Art Theory
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Here are a few books for recommended art reading.
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A World History of Art by Hugh Honour and John Fleming. 7th ed. London: Laurence King, 2005.
After Modern Art 1945-2000 by David Hopkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Art In Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas by Harrison and Wood. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
Art Now by Taschen. Taschen America, LLC: Koln; New York, 2001.
Art Since 1900 (Vol. 2) [Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism: 1945 to the Present] by Foster et al. New York & London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Artoday by Edward Lucie-Smith. London: Phaidon, 1999.
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall. Boulder: Westview, 2008.
Janson’s History of Art: The Western Tradition by H.W Janson, and Penelope Davies. 7th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.
Post Modern Art: 1945-2008 by Francesco Poli. New York: Collins Design, 2008.
The 20th Century Art Book by the Editors of Phaidon Press. London: Phaidon, 2007.
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (Second Edition) by Kristein Stiles & Peter Selz eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Visual Culture: The Reader by Jessica Evans and Stuart Hall. London: Sage in Association with the Open University, 1999.
Asian Art.
Art and Social Change: Contemporary Art in Asia and the Pacific by Caroline Turner. Canberra, ACT: Pandanus, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, 2005
Modern Asian Art by John Clark. 1st ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1998.
Photography.
20th Century Photography by Museum Ludwig Cologne. Köln: Taschen, 2006.
The Nature of Photographs: A Primer by Stephen Shore. Phaidon Press, 2010.
The Photography Book by the Editors of Phaidon Press. Midi Ed ed. London: Phaidon, 2005.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin. New York: CreateSpace, 2009.
What is Cinema? Vol. 1 by Andre Bazin, translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
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