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Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour

By Philip Ball

High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art

By Julian Stallabrass

Blimey! - From Bohemia to Britpop: London Art World from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst

By Matthew Collings, karen wright, Ian MacMillan

Portraits: John Berger on Artists

By John Berger

Seven Days In The Art World

By Thornton, Sarah

How to be an Artist

By Michael Atavar

Cambridge Plays: Dilly and the Wobbly Tooth

By Tony Bradman

Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

By Julian Stallabrass (Reader in Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, London)

Thinking About Art: A Thematic Guide to Art History

By Penny Huntsman (Farlington School, West Sussex, UK)

Latin American Art: Ancient to Modern

By John F. Scott

Ancient Rome

By R.A. Staccioli, C. Cecamore

Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death

By Laura Cumming

Redeeming Beauty: Soundings in Sacral Aesthetics

By Aidan Nichols O.P.

Colour-Music: The Art of Mobile Colour. Prefatory Notes by Hubert von Herkomer and W. Brown

By Rimington, Alexander Wallace

Naked Portrait, The: 1900 - 2007

By Martin Hammer

Defense of Art

By Christine Herter

Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts

By Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer

A Month in Siena

By Hisham Matar

Grammars of Creation

By Professor George Steiner

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

By John Berger

A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt

By Margaret Bunson

Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

By Jose Esteban Munoz

Principles of Visual Perception

By C.M. Bloomer

Russian Art of the Avant-garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-34

By John E. Bowlt

Design in the USA

By Jeffrey L. Meikle (, Professor of American Studies and Art History at the University of Texas, Austin)

Eleven Things That Art is Not: Debunking the misconceptions to reveal the true value and importance of art

By Marcus Darc

How to Look at Everything

By David Finn

The Political Writings

By William Morris, Arthur Leslie Morton, A.L. Morton

The Methodologies Of Art: An Introduction

By Laurie Schneider Adams

New Sobriety, 1914-33: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period

By John Willett