My personal collection of art books, sitting there on my shelves.
This used to be a little bigger but I decided a while back to concentrate more on later 19th century and onward works, particularly feminist art and photography.
Last updated: 28th March 2024
- 100 Artists’ Manifestos – Alex Danchev
- 100 Ideas That Changed Photography – Mary Warner Marian
- 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth – Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos
- 1001 Photographs You Must See Before You Die – Paul Lowe
- About Looking – John Berger
- Abstract Art – Anna Moszynska
- Aesthetics and its Discontents – Jacques Ranciere
- Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art – Janet Wolff
- After Photography – Fred Ritchin
- American Geography – Matt Black
- The Americans – Robert Frank
- Another Country: British Documentary Photography since 1945 – Gerry Badger
- Art of the Extreme: 1905—1914 – Philip Hook
- The Art of Feminism – Lucinda Gosling et al
- Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods – Michael Hatt, Charlotte Klonk
- Art History and its Methods: A Critical Anthology – Eric Fernie
- Art & Illusion – E.H. Gombrich
- Art and Its Histories: A Reader – Steve Edwards
- Art in History – Martin Kemp
- Art and Photography – David Campany
- Art in Renaissance Italy – Evelyn Welch
- Art in Theory: 1648—1815 – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Gaiger
- Art in Theory: 1815—1900 – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Geiger
- Art in Theory: 1900—2000 – Charles Harrison, Paul Wood
- Art Theory: An Historical Introduction – Robert Williams
- Art in Theory: The West in the World – Paul Wood, Leon Wainwright, Charles Harrison
- Art of the Avant-Gardes – Steve Edwards, Paul Wood
- Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader – Jason Gaiger, Paul Wood
- Art Worlds – Howard S. Becker
- The Artist’s Way – Julia Cameron
- Bachelors – Rosalind Krauss
- Basics Creative Photography 02: Context and Narrative – Maria Short
- Basic Critical Theory for Photographers – Ashley la Grange
- Beg, Steal & Borrow: Artists Against Originality – Robert Shore
- Bert Hardy – Tom Hopkinson
- Body: The Photobook – Nathalie Herschdorfer
- The Book of Symbols – Ami Ronnberg
- Bookcraft – Heather Weston
- A Brief History of Curating New Media Art – Sarah Cook et al
- A Brief History of Protest Art – Aindrea Emelife
- British Photographers – Cecil Beaton
- British Surrealism & Other Realities: The Sherwin Collection – mima
- Calligraphy for the Beginner – Tom Gourdie
- The Calligraphy Ideas Book – Lyndsey Gribble
- Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes
- Celtic Art & Design – Iain Zaczek
- Central Saint Martins Foundation – Lucy Alexander, Timothy Meara
- The Challenge of the Avant-Garde – Paul Wood
- Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums – Carol Duncan
- Collins Complete Artist’s Manual – Collins
- Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory – Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman
- The Complete Book of Drawing – Barrington Barber
- The Complete Engravings, Etchings & Drypoints of Albrecht Durer – Walter L. Strauss
- Complete Guide to Black and White Photography – John Hedgecoe
- The Complete Guide to Calligraphy – Professor Ralph Cleminson
- Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting – David Bellamy
- Concepts of Modern Art: From Fauvism to Postmodernism – Nikos Stangos
- Conceptual Art – Tony Godfrey
- A Concise History of Modern Painting – Herbert Read
- Confabulations – John Berger
- Constructing Wooden Images – Carl Van de Velde et al
- Contemporary Cultures of Display – Emma Barker
- The Courage to Create – Rollo May
- Creation: Art Since the Beginning – John-Paul Stonard
- Creative Acts for Curious People – Sarah Stein Greenberg
- The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life – Twyla Tharp
- Creative Handmade Paper – David Watson
- Critical Terms for Art History – Robert S. Nelson, Richard Shiff
- Cuba by Korda – Christopher Loviny
- The Curator’s Handbook – Adrian George
- Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice – Christina Z. Anderson
- Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes) – Hal Foster
- Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women’s Practice – Gill Perry
- DO/DESIGN: Why Beauty is the Key to Everything – Alan Moore
- Documents – Diane Arbus, Max Rosenberg
- Don’t Get a Job… Make a Job – Gem Barton
- Douthwaite: Paintings and Drawings 1951—1988 – Third Eye Centre
- Draw Paint Print Like the Great Artists – Marion Denchars
- Draw: Conversations Around the Legacy of Drawing – mima
- The Drawing Ideas Book – Frances Stanfield
- Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing – Mick Maslen, Jack Southern
- The Duchamp Dictionary – Thomas Girst
- Duchamp Manray Picabia – Jennifer Mundy
- The Dusseldorf School of Photography – Stefan Gronert
- The Encyclopedia of Papermaking and Bookbinding – Heidi Reimer-Epp, Mary Reimer
- English Medieval Tiles – Elizabeth Eames
- English Stained Glass – Painton Cowen
- Europeans: Henri Cartier-Bresson – Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean Clair
- Everything, All the Time, Everywhere – Stuart Jeffries
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating – Hans Ulrich Obrist
- The Family of Man
- Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings – Hugo Chapman, Marzia Faietti
- Framing Feminism: Art and. the Women’s Movement 1970—1985 – Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
- The Fundamentals of Drawing: A Complete Professional Course for Artists – Barrington Barber
- Gaudi: Complete Works – Isabel Artigas
- Gender and Art – Gill Perry
- The Genius of Photography: How Photography Has Changed Our Lives – Gerry Badger
- Geometry of Design – Kimberly Elam
- German Expressionist Woodcuts – Shane Weller
- Giotto to Durer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery – Jill Dunkerton et al
- The Global Art Compass: New Directions in 21st-Century Art – Alistair Hicks
- Gorbals Children: Joseph McKenzie A Study In Photographs – Joseph MkKenzie
- Great
WomenArtists – Phaidon - Green Waters – Alec Finlay
- Handmade Prints – Anne Desmet, Jim Anderson
- Hayao Miyazaki – Jessica Niebel
- The History of British Art: 600—1600 – Tim Ayers
- The History of British Art: 1600—1870 – David Bindman
- The History of British Art: 1870—Now – Chris Stephens
- A History of Photography: From 1839 to the present – The George Eastman House Collection
- Homes Fit for Heroes – Bill Brandt
- How to Make Books – Esther K. Smith
- How to See the World – Nicholas Mirzoeff
- How to Write Art History – Anne D’Alleva
- Illuminations – Walter Benjamin
- Image Music Text – Roland Barthes
- In the Balkans – Nikos Economopoulos
- In the Darkroom – Sarah Kennel
- Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book – Ellen Lupton
- Ink on Paper: poetry and art – Colette Bryce
- Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Galery Space – Brian O’Doherty
- Just Draw It! – Sam Piyasena, Beverly Philp
- Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes
- Larry Burrows: Compassionate Photographer – Time Life
- Learn to Paint Watercolours – Alwyn Crawshaw
- Learning Linocut – Susan Yeates
- Light: Science & Magic – Fil Hunter
- Light Matters – Vicki Goldberg
- Linocut for Artists and Designers – Nick Morley
- Linocut: Learn in a Weekend – Nick Morley
- Magnum Magnum – Brigitte Lardinois
- Make a Zine! – Joe Biel, Bill Brent
- Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms – Alisa Golden
- Making Mini Books: Big Ideas for 30+ Little Projects – Kathleen McCafferty
- Martin Parr – Sandra S. Phillips
- Masters of the Camera – Gene Thornton
- Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900&mdash1940 – Sarah Hermanson Meister
- Medieval Art – Veronica Sekules
- The Medium is the Massage – Marshall, McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
- The Meaning of Art – Herbert Read
- The Methodologies of Art: An Introduction – Laurie Schneider Adams
- Methods & Theories of Art History – Anne D’Alleva
- Modern Sculpture – Herbert Read
- Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton – Michael Bracewell
- Modernism – Richard Weston
- A Moment in Time: Scottish Contributions to Photography 1840—1920 – John Hannavy
- Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement – Griselda Pollock, Joyce Zemans
- Mythologies – Roland Barthes
- The Nature of Photographs – Stephen Shore
- The New Art History – A>L> Rees, F. Borzello
- The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain – Betty Edwards
- The New Museology – Peter Vergo
- The New Philistines – Sohrab Ahmari
- The New Photography – Catharine Reeve, Marilyn Sward
- North Country Quilts – Dorothy Osler
- The Northern Renaissance – Jeffrey Chipps Smith
- Northern Renaissance Art – Susie Nash
- The Object – Antony Hudek
- Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology – Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock
- On Art and Life – John Ruskin
- On Not Being Able to Paint – Joanna Field
- One Thousand Years of Manga – Brigitte Koyama-Richard
- The Ongoing Moment – Geoff Dyer
- On Photography – Susan Sontag
- Orientalism – Edward W. Said
- The Origins of Postmodernity – Perry Anderson
- Oscar Marzaroli: Photography 1959—1968 – Bourne 2010
- Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives – Colin Rhodes
- Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris – Thomas E. Crow
- The Papercraft Ideas Book – Jessica Baldry
- Photo Art Processes – Nancy Howell-Koehler
- Photo Idea Index – Jim Krause
- The Photobook: A History volume I – Martin Parr, Gerry Badger
- The Photobook: A History volume II – Martin Parr, Gerry Badger
- Photobox: The Essential Collection 250 Images You Need to See – Roberto Koch
- The Photograph – Graham Clarke
- The Photograph as Contemporary Ary – Charlotte Cotton
- Photographers A—Z – Hans-Michael Koetzle
- The Photographer’s Eye – Michael Freeman
- The Photographer’s Eye – John Szarkowski
- Photographers on Photographers – Henry Carroll
- The Photographer’s Playbook – Jason Fulford, Gregory Halpern
- Photography: A Critical Introduction – Liz Wells
- Photography: Essays & Images – Beaumont Newhall
- Photography: A Feminist History – Emma Lewis
- The Photography Book – Phaidon
- The Photography Ideas Book – Lorna Yabsley
- The Photography Reader – Liz Wells
- Photography Rules – Paul Lowe
- Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art – Brooks Johnson
- Photography: The Whole Story – Juliet Hacking
- The Polaroid Book – Steve Crist
- Portfolio #39
- Portraits: John Berger on Artists – Tom Overton
- Practical Course in Watercolour Painting: Composition and Interpretation – Jose M. Parramon
- Practical Course in Watercolors: Techniques & Color – Jose M. Parramon
- Principles of Art History – Heinrich Wolfflin
- Print Workshop: Hand-Printing Techniques & Truly Original Projects – Christine Schmidt
- Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes – Beth Grabowski, Bill Fick
- The Printmaking Handbook – Louise Woods
- The Printmaking Ideas Book – Frances Stanfield, Lucy McGeown
- Printmaking: Traditional and Contemporary Techniques – Ann d’Arcy Hughes, Hebe Vernon-Morris
- Propaganda – Mark Holborn
- Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing – Mike Parry
- Railway Mania – Bonnie Camplin
- Read This If You Want to Be Great at Drawing – Selwyn Leamy
- Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs – Henry Carroll
- Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People – Henry Carroll
- Realism in 20th Century Painting – Brendan Prendeville
- Regarding the Pain of Others – Susan Sontag
- Renaissance Art Reconsidered – Carol M. Richardson
- Renaissance Women Patrons – Catherine E. King
- Renew Marxist Art History – Warren Carter et al
- The Return of the Real – Hal Foster
- The Revolution of Everyday Life – Raoul Vaneigem
- Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910—1960 – Dawn Ades, Alison McClean
- The Rodchenko Family Workshop – Stepanova
- Rose Frain Survey – Rose Frain
- The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics – Berys Gaut, Dominic McIver Lopes
- See Red Women’s Workshop: Feminist Posters 1974&mdash1990
- The Seeing Eye: The Life and Work of George Oliver – Cordelia Oliver
- Shades of Grey: Glasgow 1956—1987 – Oscar Marzaroli, William McIlvanney
- Shades of Scotland 1956—1988 – Oscar Marzaroli, James Grassie
- Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art – Simon Baker
- Shaping the World – Antony Gormley, Martin Gayford
- Signs & Symbols in Christian Art – George Ferguson
- The Sketchbook Challenge – Sue Bleiweiss
- Sketchbooks: The Hidden Art of Designers, Illustrators & Creatives – Richard Brereton
- Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord
- Stained Glass Basics – Chris Rich
- The Story of Art Without Men – Katy Hessel
- Styles, Schools and Movements – Amy Dempsey
- The Sublime – Simon Morley
- Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington – Joanna Moorhead
- Symbols and Allegories in Art – Matilde Battistini
- The Tarot of Leonora Carrington – Susan Aberth, Tere Arcq
- Ten Thousand Years of Pottery – Emmanuel Cooper
- Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 – Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung
- Think Like a Street Photographer – Matt Stuart
- Thinking About Art – Penny Huntsman
- Thinking About Exhibitions – Reesa Greenberg et al
- This Means This This Means That – Sean Hall
- This Pleasant Land – Rosalind Jana
- Tools and Materials for Calligraphy – Patricia Lovett
- Tove Jansson – Exhibition Catalogue
- Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go – Shaun McNiff
- Turner: The Vaughan Bequest – Christopher Baker
- Understanding a Photograph – John Berger
- Unravelling Women’s Art – P.L. Henderson
- A Victim of Anonymity – Neil Macgregor
- Vision and Difference – Griselda Pollock
- Walker Evans 55 – Luc Sante
- Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner – Matthew Palmer
- Watercolour Challenge: Practical Painting Course – Channel 4 Books
- The Watercolour Ideas Book – Joanna Goss
- Ways of Curating – Jans Ulrich Obrist
- Ways of Seeing – John Berger
- What is Black Art? – Alice Correia
- What Is Contemporary Art? – e-flux journal
- What They Didn’t Teach You in Photo School – Demetrius Fordham
- Why Are We ‘Artists’? 100 World Art Manifestos – Jessica Lack
- Why It Does Not Have to Be in Focus – Jackie Higgins
- Why Photographers Prefer Cloudy Days – Haje Jan Kamps
- Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That – Susie Hodge
- Without Day – Alec Finlay
- The Workshop of Thomas Bewick: A Pictorial Survey – Iain Bain
- A World History of Photography – Naomi Rosenblum