5 Top art books like The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent by Thomas E. Crow

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The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

By: Thomas E. Crow

3.73

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

One of Thomas Crow’s most influential titles, The Rise of the Sixties , first published in 1996, pr…

If you liked the art plot in The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent by Thomas E. Crow , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

By: Adam Kay

4.40

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami… read more

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"From the most insignificant of actions can come the most serious of consequences."

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"Even if I wanted to have an affair, I honestly think I'd be too tired to unzip my trousers"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"I’m all for explaining terminology as we go along, but if you don’t know what a stethoscope is, this is probably a book to regift. "

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

"You work yourself to exhaustion, pushing yourself beyond what could be reasonably expected of you, and end up constantly feeling like you don’t know"

-Adam Kay, This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

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2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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3. The Plague

By: Albert Camus , Stuart Gilbert

4.02

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

The Plague is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. It tells the story from the point of … read more

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"Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

"I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."

-Albert Camus, The Plague

4. Ways of Seeing

By: John Berger

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more

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  • art
  • art history
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5. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

By: Michael Baxandall

4.10

Format: 224 pages,

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy An introduction to 15th century Italian painting… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history

6. Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction

By: Geraldine A. Johnson

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Artists like Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, and Michelangelo and works such as the Last Supp… read more

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7. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more

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8. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

9. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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10. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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11. Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.28

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more

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"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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12. Three Women

By: Lisa Taddeo

3.72

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of… read more

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"Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"It's more than fandom when a story touches you so hard that you wish the characters were your family"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"He's usually so quiet, but he's talking now, and when quiet people open their mouths the whole world listens."

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

"The problem, she's starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sendi…"

-Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

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13. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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14. 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
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15. The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

By: Thomas E. Crow

3.73

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

One of Thomas Crow’s most influential titles, The Rise of the Sixties , first published in 1996, pr… read more

Similar categories in Thomas E. Crow's The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent book and Thomas E. Crow's The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent

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  • art history
  • history
  • reference

5 Top art history books like The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent by Thomas E. Crow

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

Michael Baxandall

4.10

Transform Your Habits

On Photography

Susan Sontag

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

Linda Nochlin

4.33

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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