Gardner's Art Through the Ages has a fine bibliography in its last pages. This organized by period, and is a reliable guide to the "standard" books in the field. Many are available second hand through Amazon or other dealers at a reasonable price. Series of Art History (and related) books. The series and publishers' offerings listed below are well-known, solid, inexpensive, and easily available second hand. Some of the links are to the publishers' sites becaue the series are still growing. Check Amazon or other dealers for second hand offerings. Cambridge Illustrated History series. Helpful in providing context. Cahill, T. Hinges of History series. Cahill: "We normally think of history as one catstrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage .... But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance ...." Getty Publications series .....Art Through the Centuries .....Guide to Imagery .....Looking at ... .....Medieval Imagination .....Getty Publications Virtual Library free art e-books online * Medieval Craftsmen series - University of Toronto Press .....Brief, accessible, well illustrated, written by well-known scholars Oxford University Press .....Oxford History of Art .....Oxford Illustrated History series Helpful in providing context. .....Very Short Introduction series Arts & Humanities * New entry

....Phaidon ..........Arts & Ideas ..........Contemporary Artists ..........Themes and Movements ....Taschen Listings can be sorted by price ..........Architecture & Design ..........Art ..........Classics ..........Pop Culture ..........Taschen World Architecture series Amazon listings ....Thames & Hudson ..........Ancient History & Archaeology ..........Architecture & Landscape Design ..........Art ..........Design ..........Fashion & Jewelry ..........Photography ..........World of Art series .....Time-Life World of Art .......... This is an older series edited by H. W. Janson, and published in the 1960s and 1970s. Each volume revolves around a major artist. It's very accessible, well illustrated according to the standards of its day, and now available for as little as a penny plus shipping per volume. Sometimes available as a complete set. .....And for your pleasure . . . ..........AbeBook's Weird Book Room .......* Petrosky, H. The Book on the Bookshelf A delightful history .............. of the book, and the shelves that we put our books on Banner: Detail of David Iliff, photographer, The Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin, 2015.

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