The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jacques Maritain

528 pages • paperback • 1953

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Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster

Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Hal Foster

304 pages • hardcover • 2020

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Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose

Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Lothar Ledderose

280 pages • paperback • 1999

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Of Divers Arts by Naum Gabo

Of Divers Arts

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Naum Gabo

224 pages • paperback • 1962

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Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John K.G. Shearman

Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

John K.G. Shearman

328 pages • paperback • 1992

nonfiction art history
The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin

The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Isaiah Berlin

248 pages • paperback • 1965

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The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried

The Moment of Caravaggio

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Michael Fried

304 pages • hardcover • 2010

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The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art by Sigfried Giedion

The Eternal Present, Volume I: The Beginnings of Art

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Sigfried Giedion

616 pages • paperback • 1962

nonfiction art history
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Kirk Varnedoe

320 pages • hardcover • 2006

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The Sack of Rome, 1527 by André Chastel

The Sack of Rome, 1527

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

André Chastel

344 pages • paperback • 1983

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