Books like Claude Gilli

Loved Claude Gilli by Pierre Restany? Here are 7 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

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1The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New
Robert Hughes
A readable survey of modern art that explains how critics made sense of new movements as they happened.
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2Art and Culture
Art and Culture
Clement Greenberg
A collection of essays by a major mid-century critic arguing about what modern art should be and how to judge it.
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3The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
Rosalind E. Krauss
A set of critical essays on the avant-garde that questions the stories critics told about originality and progress.
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4After the End of Art
After the End of Art
Arthur Coleman Danto
A philosophical account of contemporary art after modernism, written by a critic who also thought carefully about individual works.
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5The Meaning of Art
The Meaning of Art
Herbert Edward Read
An earlier and accessible essay on what art is and how it affects the viewer, written by a critic of the same generation of thinking about modern art.
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6Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
A short, illustrated book that teaches the reader how to look at images and what the act of looking involves.
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7The Story of Art
The Story of Art
E. H. Gombrich
A general history of art that gives context to the movements and artists a monograph like this one assumes the reader already knows.
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The Shock of the New