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Art History

This guide is a mini-bibliography of art history books for students in ART 130, HUM 101, HUM 102, and HUM 103 classes.

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This guide includes a selection of art history titles arranged by topic. Use the search box below to search for even more books and e-books covering topics in art history

General Art History Books

Art: over 2,500 works from cave to contemporary

A Chronology of Art : a timeline of Western culture from prehistory to the present

The Art Book

Art in World History 2 Vols

The Handy Art History Answer Book

Prehistoric

What Is Paleolithic Art? : cave paintings and the dawn of human creativity

The Mind in the Cave: consciousness and the origins of art

Journey Through the Ice Age

Egypt

Temples and tombs : treasures of Egyptian art from the British Museum

Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

Egyptian Art

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia: civilization begins

Art and Architecture of the World's Religions

The world of ancient art

Greece

A Companion to Greek Art

On the fascination of objects : Greek and Etruscan art in the Shefton collection

Greek and Roman Art

Rome

Greek and Roman Art

A History of Roman Art

Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans

Middle Ages

Toward a Global Middle Ages - Encountering the World Through Illuminated

Armenia: art, religion, and trade in the Middle Ages

A Feast for the Senses: art and experience in medieval Europe

Artists of the Middle Ages

Renaissance

Leonardo Da Vinci: the complete paintings in detail

Art of the Northern Renaissance

European Art and the Wider World 1350-1550

Baroque

Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture

Baroque Art

Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700

18th-19th Century

Panorama of the Enlightenment

Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art

Impressionism

Impressionism

The Art of Impressionism : painting technique & the making of modernity

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Claude Monet

20th Century

What Are You Looking At? : the surprising, shocking, and sometimes strange story of 150 years of modern art

Art Deco, 1910-1939

The Bauhaus 1919-1933 : reform and avant-garde

Pop art

Art since 1960

Totalitarian art : in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republic of China

Reference Librarian

Molly Ledermann

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