Here is an alphabetized list of over 400 of the most popular Art History books. Click on a title for reviews and recommendations.
Reviews of Art History Books:
- 100 Artists Who Shaped World History
- 1900: Art at the Crossroads
- A Community of Angels: Los Angeles
- A Concise History of Modern Painting
- A Short History of the Printed Word
- A World of Our Own
- A Zuni Artist Looks at Frank Hamilton Cushing: Cartoons
- Aboriginal Art
- Abstract Expressionist Women Painters
- Adam: The Male Figure in Art
- Alan Flattmann's French Quarter Impressions
- Albert Moore
- Albertina: The History of the Collection and Its Masterpieces
- All Aboard!: Images from the Golden Age of Rail Travel
- Ambition and Love in Modern American Art
- America's Old Masters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale and Gilbert Stuart
- Ancient Mosaics
- Animerotics: A Forbidden Cabaret
- Art and Architecture of Spain
- Art and Experience in Classical Greece
- Art and Feminism
- Art and Its Discontents: The Early Life of Adrian Stokes
- Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain
- Art Deco Fashion
- Art in Florida: 1564-1945
- Art in the Courtroom
- Art in Venice
- Art Lovers Travel Travel Guide to American Museums 2001
- Art Now
- Art of Ancient Iran: Copper and Bronze: The Houshang Mahboubian Family Collection
- Art of the Andes: From Chavin to Inca
- Art of the Natural World
- Art: A Crash Course
- Art: The World of Art, from Aboriginal to American Pop, Renaissance Masters to Postmodernism
- Art: The World's Greatest Paintings Explored and Explained
- Arte Povera
- Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco
- Arthur Giardelli: Paintings, Constructions, Relief Sculptures
- Arthur Hughes: His Life and Works
- Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and Around American Art since 1945
- At Home and in the World
- Atget's Paris
- Avant Garde Art in Russia
- Baby-Boom Daydreams: The Art of Douglas Bourgeois
- Bacon: Portraits and Self-Portraits
- Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glassmaking: The Nash Notebooks: Including Tiffany Favrile Glass
- Behold the Hero: General Wolfe and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century
- Berlin and Its Culture: A Historical Portrait
- Bev Doolittle: New Magic
- Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America
- Beyond the Garden Gate
- Birds: Introductory Essay
- Bit by the Fleas
- Bruges and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus
- Brush Mind
- Buckskin & Buffalo: The Artistry of the Plains Indians
- Byzantine Art
- C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century
- California Impressionism
- Calligraphy and Illumination: A History and Practical Guide
- Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport
- Cat: Wild Cats and Pampered Pets
- Celtic Art: The Methods of Construction
- Ceramic Art of the Malibu Potteries 1926-1932
- Cezanne to Van Gogh The Collection of Doctor Gachet
- Cezanne: Landscape into Art
- Cezanne's Composition: Analysis of His Form With Diagrams and Photographs of His Motifs
- Chagall: The Art of Dreams
- Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden
- Chinese Art
- Christ for All People: Celebrating a World of Christian Art
- Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries Before 1556
- Cimabue
- Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance
- Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome
- Classical Art: From Greece to Rome
- Claude Monet
- Claudio Silvestrin
- Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth.
- Colombian Art : 3,500 Years of History
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette
- Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments
- Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels: A History of Comic Art
- Conceptual Art
- Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews
- CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother
- Czech Photographic Avant-Garde, 1918-1948
- Dada and Surrealism
- Dali's Mustache
- Darkwerks: The Art of Brom
- David Hockney's Dog Days
- Desert Dreams: The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon
- Design Humor: The Art of Graphic Wit
- Dessous
- Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen
- Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
- Diners
- Dog: A Dog's Life in Art and Literature
- Dore's Illustrations of the Crusades
- Dress and Decoration of the Middle Ages
- Duchamp in Context
- Durer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Paintings in the National Gallery
- Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids
- Egyptian Treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
- Emil Nolde: Unpainted Pictures
- Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude
- Enduring Visions: Women's Artistic Heritage Around the World
- Esteban Vicente
- Etruscan Art
- Eugene Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863
- Evolution
- Exchanging Hats: Paintings
- Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual
- FABERGS EGGS
- Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s
- Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera
- Face to Face: Photographs at the Gardner Museum
- Faces
- Fans
- Fashion in Costume 1200-2000
- Figured in Marble: The Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture
- Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde
- Five Hundred Self-Portraits
- Fra Angelico: Dissemblance & Figuration N
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict: Commitment and Conflict
- Franz Kline
- Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, and Modernity
- French Images from the Greek War of Independence, 1821-1830
- From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History
- From Lascaux to Brooklyn
- From Rembrandt to Vermeer: 17Th-Century Dutch Artists
- From Renaissance to Impressionism: Styles and Movements in Western Art, 1400-1900
- From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art from the Newark Museum
- Full-Colored Victorian Fashions: 1870-1893
- Gandhara
- Gauguin's Intimate Journals
- Gb The Art Of Norman Rockwell
- Gb The Ballet Paintings Of Degas
- Georgia O'Keeffe : Catalogue Raisonne
- Gericault in Italy
- German Art from Beckmann to Richter: Images of a Divided Country
- Giacometti Portrait
- Giambattista Tiepolo
- Giorgio Morandi
- Goddesses
- Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South
- Goya and the Duchess of Alba
- Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection
- Graphic Design: A Concise History, Second Edition
- Great Artists of the World
- Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work
- Ground Time
- Guided By Angels : Divinely Inspired Paintings by Amanda Dunbar
- Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Texts and Documents
- Gwen John
- Hands: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources: 1166 Copyright-Free Illustrations for Artists and Designers
- Hard Curves: The Fantasy Art of Julie Bell
- Heads of the Masters
- History of Art for Young People
- History of the Surrealist Movement
- Honey Is Flowing in All Directions
- Horse: From Noble Steeds to Beasts of Burden
- I Claudia II: Women in Roman Art and Society
- ICONOCLASH: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art
- Icons of American Protestantism: The Art of Warner Sallman
- Icons of Art: The 20th Century
- Icons of Design: The 20th Century
- Images of the Body
- Images of the Illustrious
- Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation
- Impact of Chaim Soutine: De Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, Francis Bacon, The
- Imperial Palaces in the Vicinity of St. Petersburg
- Impressionism
- Indian Art, Revised Edition
- Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in Children's Games
- Inspired Flower Arrangements
- Interviews With Francis Bacon: The Brutality of Fact
- Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art
- Irish Gangs and Stick Fighting: In the Works of William Carleton
- Islamic Art and Architecture
- Islamic Art and Architecture: From Isfahan to the Taj Mahal
- Islamic Arts
- It Was Good: Making Art to the Glory of God
- Italian Frescoes: The Flowering of the Renaissance 1470-1510
- Italian Pavements: Patterns in Space
- It's the Real Thing: Soviet & Post-Soviet Sots Art& American Pop Art
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jewish Icons: Art and Society in Modern Europe
- Jimmy Ernst
- Joan Mitchell
- John Singer Sargent : The Early Portraits
- Joseph Cornell: Stargazing in the Cinema
- Joseph Cornell's Vision of Spiritual Order
- Joyce Treiman
- Karl Bodmer's America
- Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection
- Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan: 15Th-19th Centuries
- Kazimir Malevich
- Kingfisher Blue: Treasures of an Ancient Chinese Art
- Kings and Connoisseurs
- Lawrence Weiner
- Leonardo: The Last Supper
- Let Them Eat Cheesecake: The Art of Olivia
- Living Colors: The Definitive Guide to Color Palettes Through the Ages
- London Style: Interiors Details
- Love: A Celebration in Art and Literature
- Lucian Freud: Paintings
- Mackenzie Thorpe: From the Heart
- Magnetic North: Canadian Experimental Video
- Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland
- Mangia Bene: Traditional Recipes of Italy
- Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Mark Dion
- Mary Frank: Encounters
- Masaccio
- Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago
- Masterpiece Studies: Manet, Zola, Van Gogh, & Monet
- Masterpieces in Little Portrait Miniatures: From the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- Masters of a Dragonlance Art
- Maurice Prendergast: Large Boston Public Garden Sketchbook
- Medieval Life & Leisure in the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
- Memories and Images: The World of Donald Vogel and Valley House Gallery
- Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters: Two Volumes Bound As One
- MEXICAN ART MASTERPIECES
- Michelangelo and the Renaissance
- Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture
- Michelangelo: The Vatican Frescoes
- Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties
- Missing Masterpieces
- Modern Art and the Death of a Culture
- Modern Negro Art
- Monet : The Artist Speaks
- Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities
- Monuments of Syria: A Historical Guide
- Musee D'Orsay
- Naive Art
- Narrow Waters: An Artist's Memoir of Sailing Waterways
- Neoclassicism
- New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead
- Nicolas Poussin's Landscape Allegories
- Non-Western Art: A Brief Guide
- Norman Rockwell & the Saturday Evening Post: The Early Years
- Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers
- Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator
- Norman Rockwell's America
- Northwest Coast Indian Painting: House Fronts and Interior Screens
- Object, Image, Inquiry: The Art Historian at Work
- Oceanic Art
- On Alberti and the Art of Building
- On Kitsch
- One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s
- Open Secrets: Seventy Pictures on Paper 1815 to the Present
- Paintbrush in Paris
- Painted Clay: Graphic Arts and the Ceramic Surface
- Painting Outside the Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art
- Painting the Middle East
- Paintings
- Paintings in the National Gallery, London
- Paolo Uccello
- Paul Cezanne
- Pennsylvania Impressionism
- Perceptualistics-Jael
- Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present
- Persian Poetry, Painting & Patronage: Illustrations in a Sixteenth-Century Masterpiece
- Petra
- Picasso
- Pictures and Tears : A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings
- Piet Mondrian
- Pieter Saenredam, the Utrecht Work: Paintings, and Drawings by the 17Th-Century Master of Perspective
- Pirate & Gypsy Girls
- Portraits of Combat: The WWII Art of Jim Dietz
- Posters a Concise History
- Postmarked Yesteryear: Art of the Holiday Postcard
- Pre-Columbian Art
- Pre-Columbian Art: Investigations and Insights
- Principles of Art History; The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art.
- Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts and Those Who Dared Practice Them
- Reading Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Guide to Buddhist Signs and Symbols
- Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture
- Reflections of Nature: Paintings by Joseph Raffael
- Reinventing the Wheel
- Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of the Artist
- Rene Magritte
- Rivera 16 Art
- Robert Motherwell
- Rodin on Art and Artists
- Rosalind Krauss and American Philosophical Art Criticism : From Formalism to Beyond Postmodernism
- Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited
- Sacred Art Sacred Earth
- Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes
- Sargent and Italy
- Scene of the Crime
- Sean Scully
- Seasons of Light
- Seeing the Insane
- Sex Lives of the Great Artists
- Sex or Symbol?: Erotic Images of Greece and Rome
- Shelf Space: Modern Package Design, 1945-1965
- Shoes and Pattens
- Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & More
- Shoes: Objects of Art and Seduction
- Sigmar Polke: The Three Lies of Painting
- Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt
- Sin Nombre : Hispana and Hispano Artists of the New Deal Era
- Sit! Ancestral Dog Portraits
- Socialist Realist Painting
- Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South: The Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf
- Soviet Impressionism
- Staging "the Nutcracker"
- Stanley Spencer: An English Vision
- Stars
- Still Life: A History
- Strings, Hands, Shadows: A Modern Puppet History
- Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium
- Subway Art
- Sun-Symbolism and Cosmology in Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"
- Sydney Laurence, Painter of the North
- Taos: Landmarks & Legends
- Tattoos
- The 20th Century Art Book
- The 20Th-Century Art Book
- The Air Combat Paintings of Robert Taylor
- The Ajanta Caves: Artistic Wonder of Ancient Buddhist India
- The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture
- The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone
- The Art of Ballets Russes: The Serge Lifar Collection of Theater Designs, Costumes, and Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
- The Art of Chesley Bonestell
- The Art of Florence
- The Art of Gambling Through the Ages
- The Art of Getting Over
- The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec, Third Edition
- The Art of Mu Xin: The Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes
- The Art of Richard Powers
- The Art of Shen Ku: The Ultimate Traveler's Guide: The First Intergalactic Artform of the En Tire Universe
- The Art of Tarot
- The Art of the Bath
- The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
- The Artist's Model: From Etty to Spencer
- The Arts in Spain
- The Beauty of Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty: Art, Sanctity, and the Truth of Catholicism
- The Big Book of Watercolor Painting: The History, the Studio, the Materials the Techniques, the Subjects, the Theory and the Practice of Watercolor
- The Blue Rider: The Yellow Cow Sees the World in Blue
- The Body of Raphaelle Peale: Still Life and Selfhood, 1812-1824
- The Celtic World: An Illustrated History 700 B. C. to the Present
- The City Is My Canvas
- The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
- The Creative Process: Reflections on the Invention of Art
- The Cult of the Virgin: Offerings, Ornaments, and Festivals
- The Cut of Women's Clothes, 1600-1930
- The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
- The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1960-1993
- The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11
- The Dialectic of Decadence: Between Advance and Decline in Art
- The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs
- The Essential Joseph Beuys
- The Fantastic Art of Jacek Yerka
- The Femme Fatale: Erotic and Fatal Muse
- The Figure in Fired Clay
- The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America
- The Gallery of Fashion
- The Gilded Edge: Art of the Frame
- The Gothic Revival
- The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
- The Highwaymen: Florida's African-American Landscape Painters
- The History of Art in Pictures: Western Art from Prehistory to the Present
- The History of Greek Vases
- The History of Surrealism
- The Hunter's Vision: The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe
- The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings
- The Impressionists' Paris: Walking Tours of the Painters' Studios, Homes, and the Sites They Painted
- The Kama Sutra Illuminated: Erotic Art of India
- The King of the World: The Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle
- The Language of Flowers: Symbols and Myths
- The Language of Ornament
- The Last Romantics: The Romantic Tradition in British Art: Burne-Jones to Stanley Spencer
- The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann
- The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art
- The Life of Michel-Angelo
- The Magical Realism of Alyce Frank
- The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
- The New World Dutch Barn: The Evolution, Forms, and Structure of a Disappearing Icon
- The Parthenon and Its Impact in Modern Times
- The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography
- The Pearl
- The Phallus: Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Power
- The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot
- The Power of Art
- The Pre-Raphaelite Vision
- The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century
- The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History
- The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Uncovering the Forgotten Secrets and Hidden Life Histories of Iconic Works of Art
- The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette
- The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy
- The Railroad Artistry of Howard Fogg
- The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity: Contributions to the Cultural History of the European Renaissance
- The Royal Women of Amarna Images of Beauty in Ancient Egypt
- The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
- The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
- The Sevres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847
- The Shamans of Prehistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves
- The Spirit of Butterflies: Myth, Magic, and Art
- The Splendour of Iran
- The Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- This Is Not a Pipe
- Thrift Store Paintings
- Through An-Other's Eyes: White Canadian Artists - Black Female Subjects
- Titian: Prince of Painters
- Titian's Women
- To Be in This Country
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Treasury of Bible Illustrations: Old and New Testaments
- Trevor Southey: Reconciliation
- Understanding Paintings: Themes in Art Explored and Explained
- Van Gogh and Gauguin: Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams
- Van Gogh's Gardens
- Vanity: The Art of Looking Good
- Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass 1250-1550
- Vermeer and the Delft School
- Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing
- Vermeer: The Complete Works
- Virgin Destroyer
- Visions of Adventure: N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists
- Voicing Creations Praise: Towards a Theology of the Arts
- Walls of Light: The Murals of Walter Anderson
- What My Heart Has Seen: Tony Bennett
- What Painting Is
- Where Art Is Joy: Haitian Art: The First Forty Years
- Wildlife: The Nature Paintings of Carl Brenders
- William Hogarth
- William Macgillivray: Creatures of Air, Land and Sea
- Wolfgang Paalen: Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde
- Woody Gwyn
- World Rock Art
- Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade
- Zen Art for Meditation
- Zines
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