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Art History Books
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by (shelved 387 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 � 440,149 ratings � published 1950

by (shelved 269 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 � 408,235 ratings � published 1972

by (shelved 179 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.78 � 31,852 ratings � published 1550

by (shelved 171 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.84 � 42,783 ratings � published 1926

by (shelved 136 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 � 761,147 ratings � published 1999

by (shelved 135 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.84 � 64,084 ratings � published 2004

by (shelved 116 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.84 � 37,981 ratings � published 2002

by (shelved 110 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.10 � 104,899 ratings � published 1914

by (shelved 109 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 � 27,605 ratings � published 1999

by (shelved 109 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.81 � 36,821 ratings � published 1962

by (shelved 104 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 � 14,461 ratings � published 2006

by (shelved 103 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 � 51,468 ratings � published 2009

by (shelved 95 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.84 � 89,121 ratings � published 1912

by (shelved 90 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 � 92,899 ratings � published 1958

by (shelved 89 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 � 34,907 ratings � published 2005

by (shelved 88 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.20 � 117,928 ratings � published 2017

by (shelved 83 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 � 2,996 ratings � published 1972

by (shelved 82 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 � 9,562 ratings � published 2012

by (shelved 78 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.30 � 3,365 ratings � published 2022

by (shelved 74 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.95 � 65,137 ratings � published 2023

by (shelved 74 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.75 � 35,150 ratings � published 1980

by (shelved 73 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 � 162,157 ratings � published 1997

by (shelved 68 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 � 7,646 ratings � published 1994

by (shelved 67 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.92 � 17,644 ratings � published 2006

by (shelved 66 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.62 � 67,998 ratings � published 2008

by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.81 � 70,087 ratings � published 2003

by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 � 2,636 ratings � published

by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 � 10,239 ratings � published 2002

by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 � 18,920 ratings � published 2007

by (shelved 63 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 � 28,813 ratings � published 2011

by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 � 17,793 ratings � published 2016

by (shelved 60 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.16 � 11,359 ratings � published 2012

by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.00 � 8,561 ratings � published 1968

by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.04 � 5,954 ratings � published 1960

by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.90 � 19,663 ratings � published 2001

by (shelved 57 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.22 � 1,202 ratings � published 1969

by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.92 � 6,588 ratings � published 2009

by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 � 416 ratings � published 1998

by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.15 � 4,593 ratings � published 2011

by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.99 � 74,961 ratings � published 1980

by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.92 � 47,150 ratings � published 1995

by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 � 5,228 ratings � published 2003

by (shelved 51 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.06 � 4,457 ratings � published 1992

by (shelved 50 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 � 70,401 ratings � published 1983

by (shelved 49 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.32 � 2,511 ratings � published 1971

by (shelved 49 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 � 2,946 ratings � published 2012

by (shelved 48 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.14 � 53,700 ratings � published 1988

by (shelved 48 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.95 � 60,615 ratings � published 2010

by (shelved 48 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 � 4,875 ratings � published 2008

by (shelved 48 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.22 � 1,029 ratings � published 1967

“The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it with their twaddle. Art is killed by the twaddle of the art historians. My God, I often think, sitting here on the settee while the art historians are driving their helpless flocks past me, what a pity about all these people who have all art driven out of them, driven out of them for good, by these very art historians. The art historiansâ€� trade is the vilest trade there is, and a twaddling art historian, but then there are only twaddling art historians, deserves to be chased out with a whip, chased out of the world of art, Reger said, all art historians deserve to be chased out of the world of art, because art historians are the real wreckers of art and we should not allow art to be wrecked by the art historians who are really art wreckers. Listening to an art historian we feel sick, he said, by listening to an art historian we see the art he is twaddling about being ruined, with the twaddle of the art historian art shrivels and is ruined. Thousands, indeed tens of thousands of art historians wreck art by their twaddle and ruin it, he said. The art historians are the real killers of art, if we listen to an art historian we participate in the wrecking of art, wherever an art historian appears art is wrecked, that is the truth.”
― Old Masters: A Comedy
― Old Masters: A Comedy
“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions to the current contemporary arts agenda bear a recognizable cultural, or even national, identity.”
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