The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark

The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Kenneth Clark

480 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
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 • first pub 1996 (editions)

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 • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative mysterious medium-paced
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 • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy informative slow-paced
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 • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective slow-paced
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried

The Moment of Caravaggio

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Michael Fried

304 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative slow-paced
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 • first pub 1962 (editions)

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 • first pub 1982 (editions)

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 • first pub 1953 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy poetry informative reflective slow-paced
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 • first pub 1960 (editions)

nonfiction art psychology informative reflective slow-paced