The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
By: Jennifer Higgie
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher…
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1. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
By: Sebastian Smee
3.93
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artis… read more
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- art
- art history
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- nonfiction
2. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History
By: Bridget Quinn
4.04
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with th… read more
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3. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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- art history
- biography
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- nonfiction
"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
4. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
By: Olivia Laing
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
5. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
By: Catherine McCormack
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more
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- art
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- feminism
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- womens
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
6. Girls Against God
By: Jenny Hval
3.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
At once a time-travelling horror story and a fugue-like feminist manifesto, this is a singular, gen… read more
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- feminism
"No one asks me why I hate, no one uses that word, they call me grumpy, not even angry, but grumpy, six letters, something inconsequential and self-inflicted, something powerless, insignificant, somet…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
"Maybe the only way an artist can escape capitalism and patriarchy today is to use art to disappear as an individual. The artists must completely wash away their person and self-expression, along with…"-Jenny Hval, Girls Against God
7. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- nonfiction
- womens
8. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- art
- art history
- feminism
- nonfiction
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
9. Worn: A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi Thanhauser
4.17
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. How to Be an Artist
By: Jerry Saltz
3.94
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity. . . . This book is for … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"Surely, your crappy art can fake out twelve stupid people. I've seen it done with one or two."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"For now, make something, learn something, and move on. Or you’ll be buried waist-deep in the big muddy of perfectionism."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
"But doubt is a sign of faith: it tests and humbles you, allows newness into your life. Best of all, doubt banishes the stifling effect of certainty. Certainty kills curiosity and change."-Jerry Saltz, How to Be an Artist
11. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
By: Linda Nochlin
4.33
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
"Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" is a 1971 essay by American art historian Linda Nochl… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
12. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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- nonfiction
13. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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- art history
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
14. Heads Will Roll
By: Josh Winning
3.69
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Willow’s worst nightmare was being cancelled. But the woods of Camp Castaway might destroy more tha… read more
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15. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
By: Jennifer Higgie
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- 21st century
- womens
16. Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris
By: Alicia Foster
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The first critical, illustrated biography of Gwen John, painting a vivid portrait of her life, work… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
17. The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
By: Alice Procter
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again. Should museums be made to g… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
"I do not believe guilt is inherited, but responsibility is, and there is nobody alive today whose existence has not been shaped by colonialist, racist forces. That is a legacy we all live with, and w…"-Alice Procter, The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it
18. Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece
By: Camille Laurens
3.46
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
This absorbing, heartfelt work uncovers the story of the real dancer behind Degas's now-iconic scul… read more
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19. So Witches We Became
By: Jill Baguchinsky
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
If boys will be boys, girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vaca… read more
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20. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
21. This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century
By: Rebecca Birrell
4.23
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Lemons gleam in a bowl. Flowers fan out softly in a vase. A door swings open in a sparsely furnishe… read more
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