Book Reviews
- Michael Bird: Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories
A Children's History of Art
- Alain de Botton: The Art of Travel
- using artists and writers as guides to travel
- Breyten Breytenbach: All One Horse*
- dream fables and surreal paintings
- Wally Caruana: Aboriginal Art*
- brief description and analysis of 200 works, with photographs
- Jeremy Cooper: Bolt From the Blue
- an epistolary novel of London's avant-garde art scene
- Christopher de Hamel: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- the histories and lives of twelve medieval books
- Luc Devoldere: Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands
The Low Countries Yearbook 2014
- Alit Djajasoebrata: Shadow Theatre in Java
The Puppets, Performance and Repertoire
- Hal Fischer: Mongolia: Museum Highlights*
Important Works of Art from the Collections of the Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts, Bogd Khan Palace Museum, and Choijin-Lama Temple Museum
- Lynn Gamwell: Mathematics and Art
A Cultural History
- E.H. Gombrich: The Story of Art
- the classic history of Western art
- Christine Guth: Art of Edo Japan*
The Artist and the City 1615-1868
- Robert Irwin: Islamic Art*
Art, Architecture and the Literary World
- Fiona Kerlogue: Batik*
Design, Style and History
- Maureen Korp: Sacred Art of the Earth
Ancient and Contemporary Earthworks
- Eli Maor, Eugen Jost: Beautiful Geometry
- art illustrating classical results
- Philippa Nikulinsky, Stephen D Hopper: Soul of the Desert*
- botanical and zoological illustrations from Australian deserts
- Stephen Ornes: Math Art: Truth, Beauty, and Equations
- the maths behind some contemporary art + artists
- Orhan Pamuk: My Name is Red*
- murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
- Aaron Rosen: A Journey Through Art
A Global History
- Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles: Children's Picturebooks
The Art of Visual Storytelling
- Edward R. Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information*
- the classic work on statistical graphics
- Peter Weiss: The Aesthetics of Resistance**
- art and politics in pre-WWII Germany and Spain
- Mariët Westermann: A Worldly Art
The Dutch Republic 1585-1718
- Hermann Weyl: Symmetry
- group theory, art, architecture, biology
- JoAnn Wypijewski: Painting by Numbers
Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art
See also:
architecture |
photography