Controversial Books for nagb242

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Average Rating Your Rating Title
1.12 3.69 Great Moments in Architecture by David Macaulay
1.092 3.82 Walden by Henry David Thoreau
1.056 4.02 Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas by Charles Harrison
1.05 4.04 Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing (Themes) by Emma Dexter
1.045 3.43 ArtSpeak : A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present (Speak Series) by Robert Atkins
1.028 3.66 Life of Pi [2012 film] by Ang Lee
1.02 3.67 The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
0.994 4.18 The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin
0.987 3.47 The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things by Hannah Holmes
0.984 4.04 About Looking by John Berger
0.977 4.14 30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity Across Time and Space by Editors of Phaidon
0.973 3.8 The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects by Marshall McLuhan
0.967 3.4 The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy
0.947 3.99 Art as Experience by John Dewey
0.934 3.86 The 20th Century Art Book by Phaidon Press
0.933 3.7 Greek art by John Boardman
0.931 3.98 Ways of Seeing by John Berger
0.928 4.08 The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
0.926 3.67 Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings by Kristine Stiles
0.923 3.85 A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum
0.923 3.92 Rosemary's Baby [1968 film] by Roman Polanski
0.92 3.57 An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
0.917 3.87 Get Out [2017 film] by Jordan Peele
0.911 4.03 The Art Book by Phaidon Press
0.909 3.98 History of Modern Art by H. Harvard Arnason
0.905 3.52 Anglo-American Cataloging Rules by Michael Gorman
0.887 3.59 Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton
0.856 4.39 WALL-E [2008 film] by Andrew Stanton
0.855 3.85 A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
0.854 3.9 The Photography Book by Phaidon Press
0.852 3.94 Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting by Barry Schwabsky
0.821 3.64 The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher
0.815 3.82 Women, Art, and Society by Whitney Chadwick
0.812 4.42 Ran [1985 film] by Akira Kurosawa
0.81 4.19 Dada: Art and Anti-Art by Hans Richter
0.805 4.25 Moonrise Kingdom [2012 film] by Wes Anderson
0.794 3.97 Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics by Herschel B. Chipp
0.79 3.98 1000 Chairs by Charlotte Fiell
0.787 3.99 The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell
0.782 4.18 A History of Art by H. W. Janson
0.778 4.15 A World History of Art by Hugh Honour
0.76 4.31 The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
0.751 4.61 The Seventh Seal [1957 film] by Ingmar Bergman
0.74 4.26 Blue [1993 film] by Krzysztof Kieślowski
0.737 4.46 Spirited Away [2001 film] by Hayao Miyazaki
0.731 4.37 Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy by Robert Farris Thompson
0.716 4.06 Little Miss Sunshine [2006 film] by Jonathan Dayton
0.704 4.12 The collected drawings of Aubrey Beardsley by Aubrey Beardsley
0.697 3.93 Children of Men [2006 film] by Alfonso Cuarón
0.671 3.87 There Will Be Blood [2007 film] by Paul Thomas Anderson
0.651 3.95 Art: A New History by Paul Johnson
0.651 3.75 The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson
0.512 4.3 Rashomon [1950 film] by Akira Kurosawa