The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun

The Use and Abuse of Art

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jacques Barzun

160 pages • paperback • 1974

nonfiction art history philosophy informative reflective fast-paced
Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons by Jaroslav Pelikan

Imago Dei: The Byzantine Apologia for Icons

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jaroslav Pelikan

196 pages • paperback

nonfiction art history religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner

A History of Building Types

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Nikolaus Pevsner

352 pages • paperback • 1976

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced
Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe by Jonathan Brown

Kings and Connoisseurs: Collecting Art in Seventeenth-Century Europe

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Jonathan Brown

264 pages • paperback • 1996

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

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

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

E.H. Gombrich

512 pages • paperback • 1960

nonfiction art psychology informative reflective slow-paced
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History by Arthur C. Danto

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

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Arthur C. Danto

264 pages • 1997

nonfiction art philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena by Joseph Alsop

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

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Joseph Alsop

752 pages • paperback • 1982

nonfiction art history
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas

Chinese Painting and Its Audiences

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Craig Clunas

320 pages • hardcover • 2017

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

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

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Thomas Crow

208 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction art history informative medium-paced
The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture by Sigfried Giedion

The Eternal Present, Volume II: The Beginnings of Architecture

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Sigfried Giedion

616 pages • paperback • 1964

nonfiction art history