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Foundations of Art History
The most important texts in the historiography of art history. Whether we agree with them or not, these are must reads for every art history major.
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
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The Lives of the Artists
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
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Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture
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The Politics of Vision: Essays on Nineteenth-century Art and Society
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Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays
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Art
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Music in Art
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Nature and Its Symbols
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European Art of the Fifteenth Century
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History of Art
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1000 Paintings of Genius
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Encounters in the Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive
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The History of Art in 50 Paintings
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art
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The Complete Works
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Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings
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Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
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Hieronymus Bosch
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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art
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Complete Works of El Greco
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Art history: A critical introduction to its methods
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Complete Works of Edgar Degas
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Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
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Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya
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Critique of Judgment
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Delphi Complete Paintings of Eugene Delacroix
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The Story of Art
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Complete Works of Sandro Botticelli
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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Complete Works of Michelangelo
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A Short Guide to Writing About Art
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Complete Works of Rembrandt van Rijn
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The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
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Delphi Complete Works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Delphi Complete Works of Caravaggio
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Complete Works of Gustav Klimt
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