Books most popular in the United States●Art History

Check out the latest list of books that people in the United States are enjoying the most right now. The list is ordered by popularity and the genre of the list is Arts & Entertainment > Art History.

1. Sacred Geometry - Miranda Lundy

Release date: 2018-04-01 $6.99
2. Delphi Complete Works of Giotto (Illustrated) - Giotto di Bondone

Release date: 2016-03-30 $2.99
3. Why a Painting Is Like a Pizza - Nancy G. Heller. A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art

Release date: 2019-12-31 $19.99
4. Viking Art (World of Art) - James Graham-Campbell

Release date: 2021-04-13 $11.99
5. Vermeer's Family Secrets - Benjamin Binstock. Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice

Release date: 2013-03-07 $59.99
6. Color - Victoria Finlay. A Natural History of the Palette

Release date: 2003-01-01 $4.99
7. Picasso's War - Hugh Eakin. How Modern Art Came to America

Release date: 2022-07-12 $13.99
8. The Painted Word - Tom Wolfe

Release date: 2008-10-14 $9.99
9. See What You're Missing - Will Gompertz. New Ways of Looking at the World Through Art

Release date: 2023-04-04 $18.99
10. The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo da Vinci

Release date: 2018-03-18 $3.99
11. The Noisy Renaissance - Niall Atkinson. Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

Release date: 2016-09-16 $31.99
12. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History - Kassia St Clair

Release date: 2019-11-12 $13.99
13. Delphi Complete Paintings of Gustave Courbet (Illustrated) - Gustave Courbet & Peter Russell

Release date: 2019-10-03 $2.99
14. What Are You Looking At? - Will Gompertz. The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art

Release date: 2012-10-25 $11.99
15. After Modern Art - David Hopkins. 1945-2017

Release date: 2018-06-20 $16.99
16. Mountain Mafia - Betty L. Alt & Sandra K. Wells. Organized Crime in the Rockies

Release date: 2020-06-30 $3.99
17. Matisse and Picasso - Jack Flam. The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship

Release date: 2008-08-04 $11.99
18. Animating Empire - Jessica Keating. Automata, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Early Modern World

Release date: 2018-03-23 $19.99
19. Dos letras - Antonio Beneyto & Alejandra Pizarnik

Release date: 2003-04-01 $11.99
20. La vérité sur Pilate - Le Monde de laBible

Release date: 2016-02-24 $2.99
21. The Lady in Gold - Anne-Marie O'Connor. The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer

Release date: 2012-02-07 $11.99
Comments

1. A hard sad book - This is the book that inspired the Helen Mirrin/Ryan Reynolds movie a few years back. It was not an easy read, by any means, but should be read by those who have read Schindler’s list and similar histories. The first part of the book, about Gustav Klimt, is marvelous. From his early days and family life through to his death, we really get to see the “man behind the curtain”, his poor beginnings and his triumphs and tragedies and his body of work are all reported well. But then, the Nazi invasion and everything that was taken because it could be makes the story begin to drag as O’Connor gets a bit “bogged down” in the reasoning behind Hitler’s invasion and torment of those different from his “Ayrian perfection”. Then, we begin to follow the Bloch-Bauer fight to get their Klimt back, and circle back to the introduction where her lawyer is in the end, triumphant, if you could call it that, in acquiring the masterpiece hidden in the vault along with countless others that may someday be claimed from the biggest overall art theft in history. I think this book was very sad, and very true. Someday, maybe, I’ll see the film, but right now, this is enough. Recommended /
2018-07-30

2. Lady in Gold - I really enjoyed this book. It gave me an important look at Austria during World War II. Sometimes the author repeats information from one chapter to the next. But the importance of the message out weighs any other problems. I hope that young people in Austria are required to read this book.
2015-06-09
22. The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St Clair

Release date: 2017-10-24 $13.99
23. Confessions Of an Art Addict - Peggy Guggenheim

Release date: 2013-04-16 $13.99
24. Art That Changed the World - DK. Transformative Art Movements and the Paintings That Inspired Them

Release date: 2013-08-19 $14.99
25. 33 Artists in 3 Acts - Sarah Thornton

Release date: 2014-11-03 $11.99
26. Vasari's Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari. Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian

Release date: 2012-03-08 $6.99
27. Titian - Sheila Hale. His Life

Release date: 2012-11-20 $17.99
28. The Guggenheims - Debi Unger & Irwin Unger. A Family History

Release date: 2009-10-13 $7.99
29. The Lost Chalice - Vernon Silver. The Real-Life Chase for One of the World's Rarest Masterpieces—a Priceless 2,500-Year-Old Artifact Depicting the Fall of Troy

Release date: 2009-06-02 $11.99
30. The Last Leonardo - Ben Lewis. The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

Release date: 2019-06-25 $15.99
31. Lee Krasner - Gail Levin. A Biography

Release date: 2011-03-22 $15.99
32. Stepping-Stones - Christine Desdemaines-Hugon. A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne

Release date: 2010-02-19 $12.99
33. The Shock of the New - Robert Hughes. The Hundred=Year History of Modern Art

Release date: 1981-02-12 $14.99
34. Civilisation - Kenneth Clark

Release date: 2015-04-16 $3.99
35. ArtCurious - Jennifer Dasal. Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History

Release date: 2020-09-15 $7.99
36. Taking the Quantum Leap - Fred A. Wolf. The New Physics for Nonscientists

Release date: 2010-10-19 $15.99
37. The Lives of the Artists - Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella & Peter Bondanella

Release date: 1998-04-02 $8.99
38. Leonardo's Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci & H. Anna Suh. Writing and Art of the Great Master

Release date: 2013-09-24 $11.99
39. The Cave Painters - Gregory Curtis. Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists

Release date: 2006-10-10 $11.99
40. The da Vinci Legacy - Dr. Jean-Pierre Isbouts & Dr. Christopher Heath Brown. How an Elusive 16th-Century Artist Became a Global Pop Icon

Release date: 2019-04-30 $9.99
41. Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art - David Lewis-Williams

Release date: 2004-04-17 $14.99
42. Loot - Sharon Waxman. The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

Release date: 2010-04-01 $9.99
43. Albert and the Whale - Philip Hoare. Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World

Release date: 2021-05-04 $11.99
Comments

1. Beautiful language arranged into incomprehensible paragraphs - Stories so compelling I got lost in them, and wonderful pictures. But most of the time I didn’t know to whom he was referring or quoting (no quotation marks),and how one sentence related to another. On the other hand, I must thank Hoare for introducing me to the incredible works of Durer
2021-05-30
44. Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? - Kyung An & Jessica Cerasi

Release date: 2017-03-07 $9.99
45. Playing to the Gallery - Grayson Perry. Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood

Release date: 2015-05-05 $11.99
46. The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects - Giorgio Vasari, Gaston du C. De Vere & Philip Jacks

Release date: 2006-02-14 $14.99
47. The Guardian of Mercy - Terence Ward. How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today

Release date: 2016-02-09 $12.99
Comments

1. Great read on three levels - This author is incredibly easy to ready but still complex. There are three stories beautifully interwoven keeping you involved in three different characters. This was an accidental pickup that resulted in a AM finish. Full disclosure—I am a big Caravaggio fan which is why this book caught my eye. It is a great expose on the painter but so much more.
2021-06-26
48. Art in America 1945-1970: Writings from the Age of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism - Jed Perl & Various Authors. (Library of America #259)

Release date: 2014-10-09 $19.99
49. Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning - Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux & Rita Tekippe

Release date: 2018-05-24 $2.99
50. What Is Paleolithic Art? - Jean Clottes, Oliver Y. Martin & Robert D. Martin. Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Release date: 2016-04-25 $12.99