The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

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
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
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
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
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
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