The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

The Use and Abuse of Art

Jacques Barzun

160 pages • 1974 • 2 editions

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Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons by Jaroslav Pelikan

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons

Jaroslav Pelikan

196 pages • 1 edition

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A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

A History of Building Types

Nikolaus Pevsner

352 pages • 1976 • 2 editions

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Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Jonathan Brown

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

Jonathan Brown

264 pages • 1996 • 1 edition

nonfiction art history
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E.H. Gombrich

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

E.H. Gombrich

512 pages • 1960 • 12 editions

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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History by Arthur C. Danto

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History

Arthur C. Danto

264 pages • 1997 • 5 editions

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The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena by Joseph Alsop

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena

Joseph Alsop

752 pages • 1982 • 1 edition

nonfiction art history
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Chinese Painting and Its Audiences

Craig Clunas

320 pages • 2017 • 2 editions

nonfiction art history informative mysterious medium-paced
Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820 by Thomas Crow

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820

Thomas Crow

208 pages • 2018 • 1 edition

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The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture by Sigfried Giedion

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture

Sigfried Giedion

616 pages • 1964 • 1 edition

nonfiction art history