Your Favorite Books on Art

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!

Update on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 04:49PM by Hol Art Books

ps. The contest winner turns out to be @BlackAesthetic, I think by far the best Twitterer at the conference! Yeah karma!

Win $100 Gift Card: What's your favorite book on art?

We want to know what your favorite book on art is. Tell us and you could win a $100 gift card good at any one of hundreds of independent bookstores across the country!

To enter, simply send the book's title and author by one of 4 ways:

• Visiting our booth at the 2010 CAA conference in Chicago
• Tweeting with the hashtag #favoritebookonart
• Posting on our Facebook page
• Emailing us at info@holartbooks.com

We'll share some of our favorite entries while we're here at the College Art Association conference through Saturday, and will randomly draw one lucky winner to be announced Monday, February 15, 2010. One entry per person please.