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  • Jennifer Dasal The best books for art newbies Book cover of The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present Book cover of The Story of Art Book cover of Why is Art Full of Naked People? and Other Vital Questions about Art, by Susie Hodge Book cover of The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes, & Techniques (Art History Introduction, a Guide to Art) Book cover of Isms: Understanding Art
  • Yang Ye The best books to understand China, and its people and civilization Book cover of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China Book cover of The Arts of China Book cover of The Art of Chinese Poetry Book cover of Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China Book cover of Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington’s Chinese Garden
  • Erika Rummel The best books on authenticity and truth with a capital T Book cover of Erasure Book cover of The City and Its Uncertain Walls Book cover of Landscape of Lies Book cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last Book cover of A Gentleman in Moscow
  • Kirsty Stonell Walker The best books for aspiring Pre-Raphaelite women Book cover of Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Book cover of Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement Book cover of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portraits of Women Book cover of The Pre-Raphaelites (World of Art) Book cover of Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy
  • Beebe Bahrami The best books on the culture and history of the Camino de Santiago Book cover of The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook Book cover of A Hug for the Apostle : On Foot from Chartres to Santiago de Compostela Book cover of The Way of Saint James, Volume I Book cover of The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela Book cover of Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago: Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain
  • Lorie Ann Grover The best board books to cut your teeth on Book cover of Garden Animals Book cover of Dream Big Book cover of Big Little Book cover of This Little Artist: An Art History Primer Book cover of Antiracist Baby
  • Celia Stahr The best books about women artists: overviews and individual lives Book cover of Women, Art, and Society Book cover of Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists Book cover of Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa Book cover of Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract Book cover of Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
  • Eduardo Côrte-Real The best books on unassumingly sketching the world around us Book cover of Bento's Sketchbook Book cover of The Acme Novelty Date Book: Sketches and Diary Pages in Facsimile Book cover of Henry Moore's Sheep Sketchbook Book cover of David Hockney: A Yorkshire Sketchbook Book cover of Stoner
  • Kamp Woods The best poetic books that help you rebuild yourself from the inside out Book cover of The Chaos of Longing Book cover of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide Book cover of The Mission of Art Book cover of Black Women Writers at Work Book cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • Dan Hermes The best books of interviews and letters with geniuses Book cover of Dear Theo Book cover of Conversations with Igor Stravinsky Book cover of Interviews with Francis Bacon Book cover of Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters Book cover of Beethoven's Letters
  • Karen M. Cox The best books that bring Jane Austen into modern times (that you probably haven’t heard of) Book cover of Sanctuary: Volume 1 Book cover of The Trials of the Honorable F. Darcy: A Modern Pride & Prejudice Book cover of Improvise Book cover of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star Book cover of All the Things I Know
  • Wendy McLeod MacKnight The best middle grade books that promote a love of art Book cover of Chasing Vermeer Book cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Book cover of The Painting Book cover of Masterpiece Book cover of The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray
  • Jennifer S. Alderson The best mysteries featuring amateur sleuths searching for lost art Book cover of The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and Da Vinci's Italy Book cover of The Art Forger Book cover of Titian's Boatman Book cover of The Art Whisperer Book cover of Old Scores
  • Lisa Solomon The best books to assist and inspire artists and creatives Book cover of Art/Work Book cover of Letters to a Young Poet Book cover of Art on My Mind Book cover of The Accidental Masterpiece Book cover of Color
  • Davis Baird The best books about how the things in our world get made and work Book cover of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Book cover of American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 Book cover of Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words Book cover of The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World Book cover of What Painting Is
  • Michael K. Ferber The best books to understand how romanticism transformed western culture Book cover of Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature Book cover of The Roots of Romanticism Book cover of Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature and Its Background, 1760-1830 Book cover of The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830 Book cover of Romanticism
  • Jeffrey Hantover The best books to read when the museum is closed Book cover of The Horse's Mouth Book cover of Headlong Book cover of The Idol Hunter Book cover of Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell Book cover of The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
  • Catherine Hewitt The best books on women artists Book cover of Berthe Morisot Book cover of Frida Book cover of The Mirror and the Palette Book cover of The Story of Art Without Men Book cover of The Marriage Portrait
  • Zoe Disigny The best books about art and its timeless emotional pull Book cover of Girl Braiding Her Hair Book cover of The Pillars of the Earth Book cover of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Book cover of Travels in Vermeer Book cover of Angels & Demons
  • Kaaron Warren The best books about stolen art Book cover of Museum of the Missing Book cover of A Small Unsigned Painting Book cover of Headlong Book cover of The Plundered Past: The Traffic in Art Treasures Book cover of Stolen Treasure: the Hunt for the World’s Lost Masterpieces
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