What are the essential works of Art History?
I would also take recommendations on biographies of particularly influential artists.
Also what is your favorite work of art?
>brb revolution
>>7496431
Patrician as hell tƅh.
>tfw can't enjoy your healing bath because of damn anti-revolutionaries
>>7496312
Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists." It's the source of most of our knowledge on DaVinci.
Might as well ask here, are there any (semi-)fictional books with art history as it's main theme/premise besides Seiobo There Below?
I think The Story of Art is a good introduction to art history
>>7496312
Not essential but enjoyable and interesting works
>Caravaggio - Andrew Graham Dixon
>Man With a Blue Scarf - On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud - Martin Gayford
>Landscape and Memory - Simon Schama
The Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon - David Sylvester
I quite liked Kleiner's A History of Roman Art.
Menelssohn compared many works of literature to their artistic renditions in Laocoön, though it's more a work of aesthetics. Plenty of art history within, however.
>tfw listening to The Ecstacy of Saintt Theresa when I see this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNXUQ1mOrV4
Gombrich's Story of Art
Argan's Image and Persuasion
Krauss' Passages in Modern Sculpture
Panofsky's Idea
Eco's History of Beauty
Probably Burckhardt's Culture of Renaissance too
after you're done, get ready for the boss, my man Aby
First read Didi-Hubermann's La Image Survivante and Agamben's essay on Warburg, then head on to The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity
>>7496481
the recognitions?
>>7496481
The Agony and Ecstasy
>>7496312
balthus.
>>7496312
no, but really, this russian shit turns me on. love the look of old dirty people looking quietly into the middle distance, wondering where their next radish might come from.
Jean-Luc Nancy wrote a pretty dope piece of criticism on Caravaggio in "The Muses"
>>7496312
is there a particular period of art history that your especially interested in?
>>7499849
Watch it anon, or ill post war paintings and Beksinski
Any good books on expressionism?
Gombrich - Story of Art is legit fun. It also taught me how to look at art, including abstract (which is weird, considering the fact that Gombrich seems to be quite skeptical about it).
Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History
It's very big however, but very very good.
Czarny kwadrat na białym tle tbqh
>>7500596
Also Biały kwadrat na białym tle. I wonder if more lit posters enjoy Malewicz or modern concetualists at all.
>>7500609
Imo, he's interesting, but for God's sake, don't post him, triggered classicists will derail the thread.
>>7500596
>>7500609
wow so meaningful and brilliant
>>7500627
ITS TOO LATE FAGGOT
MODERN DEGENERACY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ne7Udaetg
This series is fantastic, of course you could also read the book.
>>7499863
>DEGENERACY
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Somewhat off-topic, but is RG Collingwood's Principles of Art suitable for someone relatively new to aesthetics?
>>7496312
Protip: unless you also learn a bit about how to make art, you won't know what you're looking at. Reading books about art history without knowing how to make an image is like reading a book about musical history without knowing the basics of music theory - you'll get almost nothing from it, and probably be left with incorrect impressions as a result of the lossy compression you forced the subject to undergo.
>>7501457
no.
Where my Klee bros at?
>>7501472
Wassamatter? Upset at your poor understanding of the material?
Dude, without being able to speak a little bit of the language, you won't really be able to understand how artists developed each on other's ideas. It'll turn art history into a series of names and historical contexts rather than ... the history of art.
>>7502030
underrated post
>>7502265
>Post Kirchner and Klee
>No one responds
>Some fag posts generic fantasy painting
>"le underrated post"
literally reddit tier
