Gombrich, E. H. Various editions. The Story of Art (London: Phaidon).
Gorsline, Douglas W. 1993. A History of Fashion: A Visual Survey of Costume from Ancient Times to the Present Day (London: Batsford).
Honour, Hugh and J. Fleming. Various editions. A World History of Art (London: Laurence King).
Meggs, Philip B. 1998 A History of Graphic Design (London: John Wiley & Sons).
KEY TEXTS
Baxandall, Michael. 1987. Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures (Cambridge, MA and London: Yale University Press).
Berger, John. 1972. Ways of Seeing (London: Penguin).
Bryson, Norman. 1983. Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Clark, T. J. 1999. Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (Cambridge, MA and London: Yale University Press).
Elkins, James. 1997. The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing (New York: Harvest Books).
Elkins, James. 1998. On Pictures and the Words that Fail Them (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Elkins, James. 1999. The Domain of Images (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
Elkins, James. 2000. How to Use Your Eyes (London and New York: Routledge).
Freedberg, David. 1989. The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Gombrich, Ernst. 1960. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (London: Phaidon).
Greenberg, Clement. 1986. The Collected Essays and Criticism, ed. John O’Brian (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Livingstone, Margaret. 2002. Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing (New York: Harry N. Abrams).
Pollock, Griselda. 2003. Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity and Histories of Art (London: Taylor & Francis).
Stafford, Barbara Maria. 2007. Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press).
Wollheim, Richard. 1989. Painting as an Art (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Zeki, Semir. 1999. Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
MODERN ART
Altshuler, Bruce. 1994. The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the Twentieth Century (New York: Harry N. Abrams).
Bois, Yve-Alain. 1993. Painting as Model (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Crow, Thomas. 1996. Modern Art in the Common Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
Dawtrey, Liz, Toby Jackson and Mary Masterton. 1996. Investigating Modern Art (New Haven and New York: Yale University Press).
De Duve, Thierry. 1998. Kant after Duchamp (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
De Duve, Thierry. 2001. Look, 100 Years of Contemporary Art, trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Woods (Ghent, Amsterdam: Ludion).
Deepwell, Katy. 1998. Women Artists and Modernism (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
Drucker, Johanna. 1996. Theorizing Modernism: Visual Art and the Critical Tradition (New York: Columbia University Press).
Edwards, Steve and Paul Woods, eds. 2004. Art of the Avant-Gardes (Art of the Twentieth Century) (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
Eisenman, Stephen F. 1994. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical Introduction (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Fer, Briony. 2000. On Abstract Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
Fer, Briony, David Batchelor and Paul Wood. 1993. Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art between the Wars (New Haven and New York: Yale University Press).
Flam, Jack. 2003. Primitivism and Twentieth-Century Art: A Documentary History (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press).
Foster, Hal, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, eds. 2005. Art since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, and Postmodernism (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Foster, Hal. 1995. Compulsive Beauty (Boston: MIT Press).
Frascina, Francis. 1993. Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (New Haven and New York: Yale University Press).
Frascina, Francis, ed. 2000. Pollock and After: The Critical Debate (London and New York: Routledge, 2nd edn).
Frascina, Francis and Charles Harrison, eds. 1982. Modern Art and Modernism: A Critical Anthology (London: Paul Chapman).
Fried, Michael. 1998. Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Gaiger, Jason. 2003. Frameworks for Modern Art (New Haven and New York: Yale University Press).
Gaiger, Jason and Paul Wood, eds. 2003. Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader (New Haven and New York: Yale University Press).
Guilbaut, Serge. 1983. How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom and the Cold War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Hughes, Robert. 1991. The Shock of the New (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Meecham, Pam and Julie Sheldon. 2000. Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge).
Morley, Simon. 2003. Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Murray, Chris. 2003. Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century (London and New York: Routledge).
Orton, Fred and Griselda Pollock. 1996. Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
Rodman, Selden. 1961. Conversations with Artists (New York: Capricorn Books).
Rosenberg, Harold. 1994. The Tradition of the New (New York: da Capo).
Rosenblum, Robert. 1977. Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to Rothko (New York: Icon).
Steinberg, Leo. 1972. Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Tuchman, Maurice et al. 1986. The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985 (New York: Abbeville Press).
Wood, Paul. 1999. The Challenge of the Avant-Garde (New Haven and London: Yale University Press and the Open University).
Wood, Paul, ed. 2004. Varieties of Modernism (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
CONTEMPORARY ART
Archer, Michael. 2002. Art since 1960 (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Barker, Emma, ed. 1999. Contemporary Cultures of Display (London: Yale University Press).
Belting, Hans. 2003. Art History after Modernism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Bishop, Claire. 2005. Installation Art: A Critical History (London: Tate Publishing).
Bishop, Claire. 2012. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (London: Verso).
Bourriaud, Nicolas. 2002. Postproduction (New York: Lukas & Sternberg).
Bourriaud, Nicolas. 2002. Relational Aesthetics, trans. Simon Pleasance and Fronza Wood (Dijon: Les Presses du reel).
Buchloh, Benjamin. 2003. Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (Boston: MIT Press).
Buskirk, Martha. 2005. The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Campany, David, ed. 2003. Art and Photography (London and New York: Phaidon).
Carlson, Marvin. 2004. Performance: A Critical Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2nd edn).
Cashell, Kieran. 2009. Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art (London: I. B. Tauris).
Colpitt, Frances, ed. 2002. Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Crimp, Douglas. 1995. On the Museum’s Ruins (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press).
Danto, Arthur C. 1997. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
Documents in Contemporary Art [series]. (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery/Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Doherty, Claire. 2004. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation (London: Black Dog Publishing).
Drucker, Johanna. 2005. Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Elkins, James. 2004. On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art (London and New York: Routledge).
Fer, Briony. 2004. The Infinite Line: Re-making Art after Modernism (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
Fineberg, Jonathan David. 2000. Art since 1940: Strategies of Being (London: Laurence King).
Foster, Hal. 1996. The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Foster, Hal, ed. 1998. Visions and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture (New York: New Press).
Foster, Hal, ed. 2002. The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (New York: New Press).
Fried, Michael. 2008. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (New Haven: Yale University Press).
Gablik, Suzi. 1992. The Reenchantment of Art (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Gablik, Suzi. 2004. Has Modernism Failed? (London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2nd edn).
Godfrey, Tony and Octavio Zaya. 2013. Vitamin D2: New Perspectives (London and New York: Phaidon).
Goldie, Peter and Elisabeth Schellekens, eds. 2007. Philosophy and Conceptual Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Goldie, Peter and Elisabeth Schellekens, eds. 2010. Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art? (London and New York: Routledge).
Harris, Jonathan, ed. 2003. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press).
Hickey, Dave. 1997. Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (New York: Art Issues Press).
Hopkins, David. 2000. After Modern Art 1945–2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Jones, Amelia, ed. 2006. A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945 (Oxford: Blackwell).
Krauss, Rosalind. 1986. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Krauss, Rosalind. 1994. The Optical Unconscious (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Krauss, Rosalind. 2000. A Voyage on the North Sea: Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Kuspit, Donald. 1994. The Cult of the Avant-Garde Artist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Kuspit, Donald. 2005. The End of Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Kwon, Miwon. 2004. One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Lippard, Lucy. 1997. Six Years: The Dematerialisation of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (Berkeley: University of California Press).
McEvilley, Thomas. 1996. Capacity: History, the World and the Self in Contemporary Art and Criticism (Amsterdam: OPA).
McEvilley, Thomas. 1999. Sculpture in the Age of Doubt (New York: Allworth Press).
O’Doherty, Brian. 2000. Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press).
O’Reilly, Sally. 2009. The Body in Contemporary Art (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Owens, Craig. 1994. Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press).
Perry, Gill and Paul Wood, eds. 2004. Themes in Contemporary Art (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
Reiss, Julie H. 2001. From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Robertson, Jean and Craig McDaniel. 2005. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Silverman, Kaja. 1996. The Threshold of the Visible World (London and New York: Routledge).
Silverman, Kaja. 2009. Flesh of My Flesh (Stanford: Stanford University Press).
Stallabrass, Julian. 2004. Art Incorporated (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Stallabrass, Julian. 2006. Contemporary Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Taylor, Brandon. 2004. Contemporary Art: Art since 1970 (New Jersey: Prentice Hall).
Thompson, Nato. 2012. Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991–2011 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Wallis, Brian and Marcia Tucker. 1992. Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation (New York: David R. Godine).
Weintraub, Linda. 1997. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970s–1990s (Litchfield, CT: Art Insights).
Weintraub, Linda. 2003. Making Contemporary Art: How Today’s Artists Think and Work (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Welchman, John. 2001. Art after Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s (London and New York: Routledge).
Wiseman, Caroline. 2006. Modern Art Now: From Conception to Consumption (Ipswich: Strawberry Art Press).
Wood, Paul, Francis Frascina, Jonathan Harris and Charles Harrison, eds. 1994. Modernism in Dispute: Art since the Forties (New Haven and London: Yale University Press)
NEW MEDIA
Bice, Curiger. 2006. The Expanded Eye: Stalking the Unseen (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag).
Comer, Stuart, ed. 2009. Film and Video Art (London: Tate).
Cubbitt, Sean. 1991. Timeshift: On Video Culture (London and New York: Routledge).
Cubbitt, Sean. 1993. Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan).
Gere, Charlie. 2003. Digital Culture (London: Reaktion Books).
Grau, Oliver. 2003. Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Grau, Oliver, ed. 2007. MediaArtHistories (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Leighton, Tanya, ed. 2008. Art and the Moving Image: A Critical Reader (London: Tate).
Lopes, Dominic McIver. 2009. A Philosophy of Computer Art (London and New York: Routledge).
Manovich, Lev. 2002. The Language of New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
Miller, Paul D. (DJ Spooky). 2004. Rhythm Science (Cambridge, MA: Mediawork/MIT Press).
Rush, Michael. 2005. New Media in Art (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Rush, Michael. 2007. Video Art (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Taylor, Mark. 2001. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
GLOBAL ART
Carrier, David. 2008. A World Art History and Its Objects (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press).
Elkins, James, ed. 2007. Is Art History Global? (London and New York: Routledge).
Harris, Jonathan, ed. 2011. Globalization and Contemporary Art (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell).
Kester, Grant H. 2011. The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (Durham, NC: Duke University Press).
Onians, John, ed. 2008. The Art Atlas (New York: Abbeville).
Venbrux, Eric, Pamela Sheffield Rosi and Robert L. Welsch, eds. 2006. Exploring World Art (Long Grove: Waveland).
Zijlmans, Kitty and Wilfried van Damme, eds. 2008. World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches (Amsterdam: Valiz).
DESIGN
Aldersey-Williams, Hugh. 1990. Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse (New York: Rizzoli).
Appadurai, Arjun, ed. 1986. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Davis, Meredith. 2012. Graphic Design Theory (Graphic Design in Context) (London and New York: Thames & Hudson).
Drucker, Johanna and Emily McVarish. 2008. Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (London: Pearson).
English, Bonnie. 2007. A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century from the Catwalk to the Sidewalk (Oxford and New York: Berg).
Eskilson, Stephen J. 2007. Graphic Design: A New History (Cambridge, MA: Yale).
Fletcher, Alan. 2001. The Art of Looking Sideways (London: Phaidon).
Frank, Isabelle, ed. 2000. The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European and American Writings, 1750–1940 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press).
Fuad-Luke, Alastair. 2010. Ecodesign: The Sourcebook (London: Chronicle, 3rd edn).
Hara, Kenya. 2007. Designing Design (Baden: Lars Müller Publishers).
Hara, Kenya. 2009. White (Baden: Lars Müller Publishers).
Helfand, Jessica. 2007. Reinventing the Wheel (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press).
Kwint, Marius, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aynsley, eds. 1999. Material Memories: Design and Evocation (Oxford and New York: Berg).