The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

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 • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction art history adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
The Mediation of Ornament by Oleg Grabar

The Mediation of Ornament

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Oleg Grabar

336 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-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 • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy informative reflective slow-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 • first pub 2018 (editions)

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 • first pub 1964 (editions)

nonfiction art history
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 • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica by T. J. Clark

Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

T. J. Clark

344 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction art history
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 • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction art history
Of Divers Arts by Naum Gabo

Of Divers Arts

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Naum Gabo

224 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction art autobiography
Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists, and Critics, 1891-1921 by John Rewald

Cézanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists, and Critics, 1891-1921

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

John Rewald

352 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction art history