Recommended Reading for Foundations in Art History, Theory and Contemporary Art

  • The History of Art: A Global View: Prehistory to the Present

    JEAN ROBERTSON, DEBORAH HUTTON, CYNTHIA COLBURN, ÖMÜR HARMANSAH, ERIC KIELLGREN, REX KOONTZ, DE-NIN LEE, HENRY LUTTIKHUIZEN, ALLISON LEE PALMER, STACEY SLOBODA, MONICA BLACKMUN VISONÀ

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  • The Art Book

    PHAIDON

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  • Art Since 1900: 1945 to the Present

    HAL FOSTER, ROSALIND KRAUSS, YVE-ALAIN BOIS, BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH, DAVID JOSELIT

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  • Abstract Expressionism

    BARBARA HESS

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  • Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

    ROBERT VENTURI

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  • In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art

    LINDA WEINTRAUB

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  • Leonardo da Vinci

    WALTER ISAACSON

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  • Duchamp

    Calvin Tomkins

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  • Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

    CHARLES HARRISON AND PAUL J. WOOD

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  • What Painting Is

    JAMES ELKINS

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  • Point and Line to Plane

    WASSILY KANDINSKY

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  • Color: A Natural History of the Palette

    VICTORIA FINLAY

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  • What Art Is

    ARTHUR C. DANTO

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  • History of Modern Design

    DAVID RAIZMAN

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  • Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980

    JEAN ROBERTSON AND CRAIG MCDANIEL

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  • Vitamin D3, Today's Best in Contemporary

    PHAIDON EDITORS

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  • Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)

    WHITNEY CHADWICK

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