Your Favorite Books on Art
Monday, February 15, 2010 at 12:54PM Congratulations to Auna from Cincinnati for winning our "What's your favorite book on art?" drawing for a $100 indie bookstore gift card!
In the end, we collected about 70 entries. The bulk came in-person at the conference, six more by email, and one lonely (but no less loved) entry showed up on Twitter. Taking out duplicates, illegibly written titles, and a few books too far outside Hol's normal scope of "writing about art", we were left with about 35 individual titles representing your favorite books on art.
While there are plenty of familiar faces -- Ways of Seeing, Art and Illusion, and Accidental Masterpieces -- there are also plenty you may not have considered before, or may not have even heard of. I've compiled them in the widget below and in our LibraryThing collection. (Or, you can download a spreadsheet of the complete list.) I'd love to continue adding titles. So, contest or not, if you think of a favorite book on art that should be on the list, please let us know!
Hol Art Books
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Reader Comments (2)
Did any book receive more than one vote?
Good question, thanks. John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" got three, Michael Kimmelman's "The Accidental Masterpiece" got two, and "Upside Down, Inside Out, and Backwards" by Duane Michals got two. On this last, it's not clear to me that it has anything to do with art at all rather than simply being a book with pictures in it that's by a recognized photographer, but it was such a curiosity that I couldn't help but to include it. There's a bit of info about it at photo-eye, and maybe someone else can elaborate?
I'd also add that there might have been more repetition, but people at the conference were reading over the posted entries before writing their own, and often purposefully avoided making duplications.