Books on art theory and criticism

What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

(9780822352891) | Colleagues from fields

An Intimate Distance: Women, Artists and the Body

(9780415110853)

(9780674365803 / 9780674365803) - Dimensions: 235 x 140 x 21 mm - ISBN: 9780674365803 - Number of pages: 208 - Harvard University Press - Weight: 481 g | Six Drawing Lessons, Charles Eliot Norton Lectures & Kentridge says

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

(9780822349181)

Sociology of the Arts: Exploring Fine and Popular Forms

Traditional Pottery of India

(9780713645217)

Edvard Munch Prints

(9780856676772)

Trench Art

(9781848846371 / 100 illustrations)

The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence

(9780300176605) | Renaissance Florence, Paintings and sculptures

The Persistence of Subjectivity: On the Kantian Aftermath

(9780521613040)

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before

Explore how images shape culture and identity in this insightful book that argues photography’s power surpasses traditional art forms, blending history, theory, and compelling visual analysis to redefine artistic boundaries.

Manet's Modernism or the Face of Painting in the 1860s

(9780226262178) | Face of Painting

The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays

Brand: Cambridge University Press (9780521339537)

Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts: 3

(9780415966085 / 3 b&w photographs) | Deleuze's aesthetics

Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art

Oxford University Press (9780198747758 / 9780198747758) | Disinterested attention

Agnes Martin

(9780300151053) | Agnes Martin

Living Well is the Best Revenge

(9780870708978) | Whom Calvin

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

(9780300073317) | Lorenzo Lotto

Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Readymade

(9780226024899 / 9780226024899) | Dafen's workers

The Red and the Black: Studies in Greek Pottery

(9780415126618)

The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War, 1945-1960

(9780300090895)

Romare Bearden, American Modernist

Point and Line to Plane

(9780486238081 / 127 illustrations)

The Image of Christ in Modern Art

(9781409463825)

The Spatial Politics of the Sculptural: Art, Capitalism and the Urban Space

(9781783487608)

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics

(9781565842632 / 653554)

Images: A Reader

The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists

The University of North Carolina Press (9781469607542 / illustrations (black and white))

The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

Explore how Hal Foster redefines authenticity in late‑century art, blending critical theory with vivid case studies that reveal the shifting boundaries between reality and representation.