Books like Diversities
Loved Diversities by Anna Detheridge? Here are 6 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Diversities →6 books
- 1Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing
John BergerA short, illustrated look at how images and art carry social meaning, written for a general reader.
Books like it → - 2The Story of Art
The Story of Art
E. H. GombrichA widely read survey of art history that places works within their changing cultures and times.
- 3The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New
Robert HughesA lively account of modern art and the cultural upheavals behind it, from the late nineteenth century onward.
- 4Orientalism
Orientalism
Edward W. SaidA study of how Western writing and art represented non-Western peoples, and what that representation did.
- 5Black Skin White Masks
Black Skin White Masks
Frantz FanonA psychological and political study of colonial race and identity, written from direct experience.
- 6Patterns of Intention
Patterns of Intention
Michael BaxandallAn account of how the social circumstances of a period shaped the paintings made in it, using a historian's close reading of the works.
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