The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Jonathan Brown

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jonathan Brown

264 pages • paperback • 1996

nonfiction art history
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas

Chinese Painting and Its Audiences

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Craig Clunas

320 pages • hardcover • 2017

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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 • paperback • 1965

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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 • hardcover • 2006

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The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried

The Moment of Caravaggio

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Michael Fried

304 pages • hardcover • 2010

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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 • paperback • 1962

nonfiction art history
The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena by Joseph Alsop

The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Joseph Alsop

752 pages • paperback • 1982

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 • paperback • 1953

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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E.H. Gombrich

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

E.H. Gombrich

512 pages • paperback • 1960

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Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still by John Golding

Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

John Golding

240 pages • hardcover • 2000

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