Suggested Readings
General Art Theory and Philosophy
The Use and Abuse of Art— Jacques Barzun
Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism
Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present— Monroe C. Beardsley
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages— Harold Bloom
A History of Aesthetic— Bernard Bosanquet
Philosophies of Beauty— E.F. Carritt
The Principles of Art— R.G. Collingwood
A Companion to Aesthetics— David Cooper
Aesthetic.— Benedetto Croce
The Journal of Eugene Delacroix— Eugene Delacroix
Art as Experience— John Dewey
A Dictionary of Philosophy— Anthony Flew
Vision and Design— Roger Fry
The Philosophy of Art— Giovanni Gentile
Painting and Reality— Etienne Gilson
Language of Art— Nelson Goodman
System and Dialects of Art— John D. Graham
The Art and the Art of Criticism— Theodore M. Greene
Form and Function: Remarks on Art— Horatio Greenough
Art in Theory— P. Wood/C. Harrison
The Philosophy of Fine Arts— G.W.F. Hegel
Das Problem Der Form— Adolf Hildebrand
Introductory Readings in Aesthetics— John Hospers
Decline of the New
The Idea of the Modern in Literature and the Arts— Irving Howe
Homo Ludens— Johan Huizinga
Guide to Philosophy— Cyril E. Joad
Art and Freedom— Horace Kallen
Studies in Ancient American and European Art— George Kubler
Problems of Art: Ten Philosophical Lectures— Susanne Langer
Museum Without Walls
The Voices of Silence— Andre Malraux
The Meaning of Meaning— I.A. Richards/C. Ogden
The Meaning in Visual Arts— Erwin Panofsky
The Demands of Art— Max Raphael
Principle of Literary Criticism— I.A. Richards
The De-definition of Art— Harold Rosenberg
Theory and Philosophy of Art— Meyer Schapiro
Against the Interpretation and Other Essays— Susan Sontag
The Art of Thought— Graham Wallas
Axel’s Castle— Edmund Wilson
The Art of the Italian Renaissance
Principles of Art History
Renaissance and Baroque
The Sense of Form in Art— Heinrich Wolfflin
Abstraction and Empathy— Wilhelm Worringer
The Essential Kant— Arnulf Zweig
Modern Art History and Movements
Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews — G. Apollinaire
Futurist Manifestos — Umbro Apollonio
Cubism and Abstract Art — Alfred Barr
The Mirror of Art — Charles Baudelaire
Art — Clive Bell
Modernism, 1890-1930 — J. McFarlance/M. Bradbury
Theories of Modern Art — H.B. Chipp
The Cubist Epoch — Douglas Cooper
Modern Art and Modernism — C. Harrison/F. Frascina
This is Not a Pipe — Michel Foucault
Progress in Art — Suzi Gablik
Visions of the Modern — John Golding
The Great Experiment: Russian Art — Camilla Gray
19th and 20th Century Art — George H. Hamilton
The Social History of Art — Arnold Hauser
Modern Artists on Art — Robert L. Herbert
De Stijl: 1917-1931 — Hans L.C. Jaffe
Modern Art and the Object — Ellen H. Johnson
Modern Times — Paul Johnson
The Dada Painters and Poets — F. Marc/W. Kandinsky
Dadaism and Futurism — Max Kozloff
The Symbolist Aesthetic in France. 1885-1895. — A.G. Lehmann
Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects — Herbert Lindinger
Wallace Stevens and Modern Art — Glen McLeod
The Dada Painters and Poets — Robert Motherwell
Foundations of Modern Art — Amedee Ozenfant
The History of Impressionism
Post Impressionism — John Rewald
Concepts of Modern Art — N. Stagnos/A. Richardson
A History of the Modern Movement — Kurt Rowland
Modern Art, 19th and 20th Century
Nature of Abstract Art — Meyer Schapiro
Wiener Werkstaette, Design in Vienna — J. Werner Schweiger
The Banquet Years — Roger Shattuck
Skyscraper Primitives — Dickran Tashjian
Art After Modernism — Brian Wallis
The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago — Hans M. Wingler
Typography and Design
William Caslon: 1693-1766 — Johnson Ball
Postscripts on Dwiggins. Essays and Recollections — Paul A. Bennett
Line and Form — Walter Crane
Visual Language — P. Thompson/P. Davenport
Practice of Typography: Correct Composition — Theodore De Vinne
Layout in Advertising — William A. Dwiggins
Typographie — Ottl Eicher
The New Graphic Design — M. Kutter/K. Gersner
An Essay on Typography — Eric Gill
Graphic Design — Milton Glaser
Seymour Chwast, The Left Handed Designer — Steven Heller
Graphic Design Manual — Armin Hofmann
American Alphabets — Paul Hollister
The Printer’s Terms — Rudolf Hostettler
Graphic Design — Werner Jeker
Writing and Illuminating and Lettering — Edward Johnston
The Art of the Poster — E. McKnight Kauffer
The Place, the Times and the Point — Uwe Loesch
The Art of Advertising — George Lois
Eric Gill
William Morris — Fiona MacCarthy
Typographers on Type — Ruari McLean
The Function of Esthetic Research — Enzo Mari
A History of Graphic Design — Philip Meggs
Graphic Design, Mendell & Oberer — Pierre Mendell
Letterforms. Typography and Scriptorial
On Type Design: Past and Present — Stanley Morrison
A.M. Cassandre — Henri Mouron
The Graphic Designer and His Design Problems — Joseph Muller-Brockman
Graphic Design — R. Tissi/S. Odermatt
Max Huber — Carlo Pirovano
Images sans Paroles — Gunther Rambow
Advertisement: Ad Vivum, Ad Hominum? — Paul Rand
Die Kunst der Typographie — Paul Renner
A Theory of Pure Design — Denman W. Ross
Typography — Emil Ruder
Basic Typography: Design with Letters — Ruedi Ruegg
Visuelle Kommunication: Ein Design-Handbuch — Anton Stankowski
Bruno Munari: Design as Art — Aldo Tanchis
Designing Books
The New Typography
Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering — Jan Tschichold
Printing Types — Daniel B. Updike
Design — Massimo Vignelli
Typographer and Designer — Wolfgang Weignart
Henryk Tomaszewski — Stanislaw Wieczorek
Ein Areitsbericht — Hermann Zapf
Art Biographies and Monographs
The Art of Cezanne — Karl Badt
Theo Van Doesburg — Joost Baljeu
Le Corbusier: Oeuvre Complete — W. Boesiger
Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp — Pierre Cabanne
Dubuffet — Andreas Franzke
Cezanne: A Study of His Development — Roger Fry
Magritte — Suzi Gablik
Life with Picasso — C. Lake/ F. Gilot
Brodovitch — Andy Grundberg
Gauguin — Rene Huyghe
Le Corbusier and the Tragic View of Architecture — Charles Jencks
Juan Gris — Daniel Kahnweiler
Point and Line to Plane — Wassily Kandinsky
The Paul Klee Notebooks, Vol 2: The Nature of Nature — Paul Klee
Functions of Painting — Fernand Leger
El Lissitzky — Sophie Lissitzky-Kuppers
Cezanne’s Compositions — Erle Loren
William Morris — Fiona MacCarthy
Essays on Art, 3 vols.
The Non-Objective World — Kasimir Malevich
Select Writings — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
A Throw of the Dice: Life of Stephane Mallarme — Gordon Millan
Degas, The Artist’s Mind — Theodore Reff
Cezanne: A Biography
Cezanne Letters — John Rewald
Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art — William Rubin
Kurt Schwitters — Werner Schmalenbach
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography — Franz Schulze
Mondrian — Michel Seuphor
Max Ernst, Loplop — Werner Spies
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary — Edward P. Thompson
Magritte: Ideas and Images — Harry Torczyner
Principles of Neo-Plastic Art — Theodore Van Doesburg
Van Gogh Letters — Vincent Van Gogh
Giorgio Morandi — Lamberto Vitali
John Dewey and American Democracy — Robert B. Westbrook
The Masterpiece — Emile Zola
Architecture
Notes on the Synthesis of Form — Christopher Alexander
The Dynamics of Architectural Form — Rudolf Arnheim
Adolf Loos: Theory and Works — Benedetto Gravagnuolo
The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
The Modulor 1 and Modulor 2
Towards a New Architecture — Le Corbusier
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings — Edward S. Morse
Katsura, A Princely Retreat — Akira Naito
Shaker Built — J. Sprigg/P. Rocheleau
Houses and People of Japan — Bruno Taut
General Art Theory and Philosophy
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age — R. Banham
Space, Time, and Architecture — Sigfried Giedion
The Image and the Eye
In Search of Cultural History
Meditations on a Hobby Horse
The Sense of Order
Tributes: Interpreters of Our Cultural Tradition — E.H. Gombrich
The Language of Vision — Gyorgy Kepes
Art: The Revealing Experience — Kurt Kranz
The New Vision
Vision in Motion — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Technics and Civilization — Lewis Mumford
Design for the Real World — Victor Papanek
Geometry and Design
The Painter’s Geometry — Charles Bouleau
The Golden Number — Miloutine Borissavlievitch
Space in Medieval Painting — Miriam Schild Bunim
The Geometry of Art and Life — Matela Ghyka
Art & Geometry — William M. Ivins
The Theory of Proportion in Architecture — P.H. Scholfield
The Ten Books on Architecture — Vitruvius
Symmetry — Herman Weyl
Systems of Proportion — Rudolf Wittkower
Film
Film as Art — Rudolf Arnheim
Film Essays
Film Form: Essays in Film Theory
The Film Sense — Sergei Eisenstein
General, Sociology
Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin A. Abbott
Art and Visual Perception
Entropy & Art
New Essays on the Psychology of Art
The Power of the Center
Toward a Psychology of Art
Visual Thinking — Rudolf Arnheim
The Art in Painting — Albert C. Barnes
Begin Here
A Stroll with William James — Jacques Barzun
Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism — Daniel Bell
Aspects of Language — D.A. Sears/ D. Bolinger
The Beautiful Necessity — Claude Bragdon
All Consuming Images — Stuart Ewen
Objects of Desire: Design and Society — Adrian Forty
Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing
The Intelligent Eye — Richard L. Gregory
On Looking into the Abyss — Gertrude Himmelfarb
Culture of Complaint
Nothing if Not Critical — Robert Hughes
The Painter’s Eye — Henry James
Pragmatism and the Meaning of Truth — William James
Tenured Radicals — Roger Kimball
Gestalt Psychology — Franz Koffka
Beer Can by the Highway
Made in America — John A. Kouwenhoven
The Age of the Avant-Garde — Hilton Kramer
Signs of the Times — David Lehman
The Age of Missing Information — Bill McKibben
The Book of Tea — Kakuzo Okakura
The Evolution of Useful Things
The Pencil — Henry Petroski
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The Disappearance of Childhood
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology — Neil Postman
Design for Escape — I.A. Richards
246 Little Clouds — Dieter Roth
Readings in Art History — Harold Spencer
Elements of Style — E.B. White/W. Jr. Strunk
Productive Thinking — Max Wertheimer
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
Born Under Saturn
The Divine Michelangelo
Gothic Versus Classic
Idea and Image: Studies in Italian Renaissance
Palladino and Palladionism — Rudolf Wittkower
On Writing Well — William Zinsser