what are your favorite books on Art?can be Art History, theory, philosophy, formal technique... anything goes
>>24859924Norbert Wolf's cinematic-sized slip cases on the renaissance and salon art.
>>24859924What would you say is some good art histories?
>>24859924Modern Sculpture by Herbert Read was good.
>>24859948why
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>>24859962The Story of Art is the most known
>>24860187"The Story Of Art Without Men" came up in the autocomplete on Amazon.God i hate females.
>>24859948who's that by?>>24859924Body of Art (Phaidon) is a nice collection of lots of pictures of representations of the human body with a little bit about each and a chapter covering each theme, it's nice, general, gives some good background
>>24860145This is the most boring book I have ever encountered >Jacobo Martino Jiglierli was a painter born in Florence. He painted this painting in this church and this painting in this church and this painting in this church.>Repeat 2000 times
Why does /lit/ not have collections of books on a certain topic to download in bulk like /x/ does? Especially with art books or philosophy books or classics, there's a lot of series that could be assembled into one download, so how come they don't exist?
>>24860402extremely low populationhigh percentage of bots/trolls/retards among that populationlengthy and thankless task, especially if attempted by a single individualrequires breadth and depth of knowledge and discernment to compile lists that are not over-broad yet also do not have glaring omissions requires the willingness to investigate and determine the best translations / versions of all component works, and to ensure the files themselves are high-quality (no unsearchable pdfs, no bad/inaccurate OCR, no missing pictures / figures, within-text links and notes intact...)this platform not conducive to sustained cooperation/iteration/improvement/curation of suchI'm willing to be consulted about it, but I'm not doing it all or even very much of it by myselfI have my own projects to work on
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>>24860925thx for the bump ;)
“Humanize” by Thomas Heatherwick. Technically, it’s more of an architecture book, but it touches on design and aesthetics, and basically complains about the “boring squareness” of modernist architecture. The book is formatted visually like a scrap book, with text mixed with pictures. As Heatherwick mentions in the book, he is technically nit an “architect”, despite designing buildings, because in the UK, he would legally need certain architecture training, and certification he doesn’t have, and he was once threatened with being prosecuted by a UK architect, after a magazine used the term “architect” to describe Heatherwick.
For a general History of “art” try Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages”. It’s one of the standard histories of art used in Art Universities.
Another interesting book, is Thomas Locke Eastlake’s “Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters”. Dover publishes the book in one or two volumes.
>>24859924Kenneth Clark's The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
>>24859924I liked Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"Also liked Ayn Rand's romantic manifesto, got me thinking about the definition of Art and its purposeBriefly, art is a good synthesis of masculine feminine appeal for ideal/material as it is the concretization of ideas by giving those a perceptible format through an unifying aesthetic structure; art is ideas as object or phenomena.Art is good for communicating things that are hard for words to convey.It's also good to for a mind to accept something as true because people only believe in things if they *feel* it to be true, essays are good for developing ideas when you have some common grounds with an author, but if you disagree intuitively only art can help, rational arguments to no end aren't a good way to gain back someone who disagrees with you on feelings; we are beasts as much as we are machine of cognition, art speaks to both parts that's why it's strong and we wish to have it everywhere in our lives.
>>24862512i find this one book by rand pretty interesting, too. funny seeing her mentioned at all since i feel like everyone automatically disregards everything she's ever said because of her retarded capitalism championing novels
Against Interpretation and Other Essays. Anything by Sontag, really.
>>24859924Why are the feet so fucking ugly in Boticelli's paintings. Was he retarded?
>>24862723better long toes than short stubby ones
Tiepolo Pink by Roberto CalassoMost of what TJ Clark has written, especially The Sight of DeathGuy Davenport on Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, and Stanley SpencerArticles and books by and about Aby WarburgErwin Panofsky once you have some grasp of scope and technical concerns, especially his book on Durer Adrian Stokes if you want some Freud and/or are interested in sculpting and Michelangelo
>>24862751Short plump toes are the cutest. But in any case it's not the length of the toes in Boticelli's paintings that is the problem, but their grotesque shape
>>24862756thank you for the contributions, but I must admit that Renaissance art does very little for me
>>24862723>>24862762That's what feet looked like back then
>>24860402it’s probably not a case of /lit/ not knowing any better, but rather knowing best. that stuff is always useless and stupid and a negative influence.
>>24862883Well, you can't understand anything of art now, its few successes and many failures, if you don't have a sense of that history. Or read outside the Western scope. Much to be learned from Hindu/Buddhist art. Much can be taken from anthropological sources about earlier cultures. Claude Levi-Strauss. Ananda Coomaraswamy.I would recommend Kenneth Clark's Civilization show. Also Sister Wendy Beckett's videos on the history of art. Since maybe you are younger and trying to pour a foundation.
>>24862883i think renoir said something like the renaissance is the age that led us to the industrial revolution. art is always better in its primitive stages. the bayeux tapestry is more beautiful than the modern gobelins tapestry.
>>24859924I've started watching Kenneth Clark's Civilisation. Really enjoying it and I will be recommending it to everyone.
>>24860540>>24862897Still there are official series and editions and such. For example something like the https://www.taschen.com/en/books/basic-art-series/ should have a single download, and so on.
>>24862940would probably do more harm than good.
This might be a retarded question, but as a kid I would stare at I Spy and Where’s Waldo and other illustrated books for a long time and they were very inspiring for the imagination. If I were looking for collections of evocative illustrations today, is there a chart for this? Are they just called “picture books”? Any recommended artists?When I search for “art books” it’s all learning how to draw stuff. I’m more looking for imagination fuel. I’m also not sure what board would be appropriate for this, /ic/?
>>24863041bruno munari
>>24863050Thanks for the suggestion
>>24862943how could that possibly do any harm at all?
