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 Women Artists – 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