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Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Ways of Seeing (Paperback) by John Berger (shelved 315 times as art-history) avg rating 3.94 — 440,146 ratings — published 1972 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Art Through the Ages (Hardcover) by Fred S. Kleiner (shelved 195 times as art-history) avg rating 3.81 — 45,540 ratings — published 1926 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Lives of the Artists (Paperback) by Giorgio Vasari (shelved 166 times as art-history) avg rating 3.78 — 33,275 ratings — published 1550 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback) by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) (shelved 146 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 784,495 ratings — published 1999 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Beauty (Paperback) by Umberto Eco (Editor) (shelved 143 times as art-history) avg rating 3.82 — 67,899 ratings — published 2004 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Art (Hardcover) by H.W. Janson (shelved 123 times as art-history) avg rating 3.77 — 39,878 ratings — published 1962 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback) by Ross King (shelved 122 times as art-history) avg rating 3.85 — 39,267 ratings — published 2002 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback) by Ross King (shelved 121 times as art-history) avg rating 3.91 — 28,289 ratings — published 1999 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback) by Vincent van Gogh (shelved 120 times as art-history) avg rating 4.08 — 112,262 ratings — published 1914 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover) by Katy Hessel (shelved 112 times as art-history) avg rating 4.29 — 4,472 ratings — published 2022 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover) by Robert M. Edsel (shelved 108 times as art-history) avg rating 3.81 — 52,585 ratings — published 2009 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback) by Ross King (shelved 108 times as art-history) avg rating 3.85 — 14,580 ratings — published 2006 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover) by Michael Finkel (Goodreads Author) (shelved 103 times as art-history) avg rating 3.92 — 102,131 ratings — published 2023 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback) by Wassily Kandinsky (shelved 103 times as art-history) avg rating 3.83 — 93,173 ratings — published 1912 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback) by Irving Stone (shelved 95 times as art-history) avg rating 4.09 — 97,477 ratings — published 1961 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover) by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 94 times as art-history) avg rating 4.18 — 130,399 ratings — published 2017 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback) by Jonathan Harr (Goodreads Author) (shelved 94 times as art-history) avg rating 3.88 — 35,929 ratings — published 2005 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback) by Michael Baxandall (shelved 89 times as art-history) avg rating 3.95 — 3,036 ratings — published 1972 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook) by Anne-Marie O'Connor (Goodreads Author) (shelved 87 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 9,892 ratings — published 2012 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Art Book (Paperback) by Phaidon Press (shelved 76 times as art-history) avg rating 3.86 — 167,815 ratings — published 1997 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Shock of the New (Paperback) by Robert Hughes (shelved 74 times as art-history) avg rating 3.74 — 36,821 ratings — published 1980 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback) by Lynn H. Nicholas (shelved 73 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 7,768 ratings — published 1994 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback) by Sarah Thornton (shelved 72 times as art-history) avg rating 3.61 — 71,661 ratings — published 2008 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Women, Art, and Society (World of Art) by Whitney Chadwick (shelved 72 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 2,677 ratings — published 1990 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover) by Kassia St. Clair (shelved 69 times as art-history) avg rating 4.00 — 22,063 ratings — published 2016 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition) by Steven Naifeh (shelved 68 times as art-history) avg rating 4.17 — 31,536 ratings — published 2011 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Power of Art (Hardcover) by Simon Schama (shelved 67 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 17,775 ratings — published 2006 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars On Ugliness (Hardcover) by Umberto Eco (shelved 67 times as art-history) avg rating 3.88 — 19,132 ratings — published 2007 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback) by Charles Harrison (Editor) (shelved 66 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 10,231 ratings — published 2002 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback) by Victoria Finlay (shelved 65 times as art-history) avg rating 3.79 — 73,021 ratings — published 2003 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover) by Will Gompertz (shelved 64 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 14,327 ratings — published 2012 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover) by Andrew Graham-Dixon (shelved 61 times as art-history) avg rating 4.16 — 4,870 ratings — published 2011 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback) by E.H. Gombrich (shelved 61 times as art-history) avg rating 4.04 — 6,144 ratings — published 1960 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback) by Susan Vreeland (shelved 61 times as art-history) avg rating 3.91 — 20,046 ratings — published 2001 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback) by Ingo F. Walther (shelved 60 times as art-history) avg rating 4.10 — 57,637 ratings — published 1988 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback) by Linda Nochlin (shelved 59 times as art-history) avg rating 4.32 — 3,215 ratings — published 1971 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition (Hardcover) by Frederick Hartt (shelved 59 times as art-history) avg rating 4.22 — 1,211 ratings — published 1969 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Modern Art (Paperback) by H. Harvard Arnason (shelved 58 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 8,657 ratings — published 1968 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover) by Laney Salisbury (shelved 58 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 6,696 ratings — published 2009 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback) by Donald Preziosi (Editor) (shelved 57 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 420 ratings — published 1998 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback) by Hayden Herrera (shelved 55 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 74,601 ratings — published 1983 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook) by Patrick Bringley (Goodreads Author) (shelved 55 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 27,359 ratings — published 2023 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover) by Frida Kahlo (shelved 55 times as art-history) avg rating 3.89 — 50,162 ratings — published 1995 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback) by Walter Benjamin (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 4.08 — 24,740 ratings — published 1936 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover) by Edmund de Waal (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.96 — 64,090 ratings — published 2010 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover) by Roland Barthes (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.99 — 78,284 ratings — published 1980 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback) by Deborah Davis (Goodreads Author) (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 5,399 ratings — published 2003 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) by Edward Dolnick (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.88 — 5,150 ratings — published 2008 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (Annotated Series) (Volume 3) by Carol Strickland (Goodreads Author) (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 4.06 — 4,495 ratings — published 1992 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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“at any given moment, the world offers vastly more support to work it already understands — namely, art that’s already been around for a generation or a century. Expressions of truly new ideas often fail to qualify as even bad art — they’re simply viewed as no art at all....On both intellectual and technical grounds, it’s wise to remain on good terms with your artistic heritage, lest you devote several incarnations to re-inventing the wheel. But once having allowed for that, the far greater danger is not that the artist will fail to learn anything from the past, but will fail to teach anything new to the future....The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-decreasing scale. Eventually (perhaps by the early 1960’s) those who stepped forward to carry the West Coast Landscape Photography banner were not producing art, so much as re-producing the history of art....Only those who commit to following their own artistic path can look back and see this issue in clear perspective: the real question about acceptance is not whether your work will be viewed as art, but whether it will be viewed as ” ― David Bayles, Art and Fear 0 likes “wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it ” ― Bob Ross, The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29 75 likes More quotes...

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