The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark

Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

T. J. Clark

344 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction art history
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jacques Maritain

528 pages • first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy poetry informative reflective slow-paced
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster

Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Hal Foster

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose

Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Lothar Ledderose

280 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
Of Divers Arts by Naum Gabo

Of Divers Arts

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Naum Gabo

224 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction art autobiography
Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John K.G. Shearman

Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

John K.G. Shearman

328 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction art history
The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin

The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Isaiah Berlin

248 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy informative slow-paced
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried

The Moment of Caravaggio

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Michael Fried

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative slow-paced
The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art by Sigfried Giedion

The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Sigfried Giedion

616 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction art history
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Kirk Varnedoe

320 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective slow-paced