SeriesA. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

48 Works Popularity 2,471 (3,701 Members) 5,351 Books 25 Reviews ½ 4.0
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Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain 200 copies1
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark 912 copies, 5 reviews2
The Art of Sculpture by Herbert Read 39 copies3
Painting and Reality by Étienne Gilson 87 copies, 1 review4
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E. H. Gombrich 1,067 copies, 5 reviews5
The Eternal Present: A Contribution on Constancy and Change by S. Giedion 21 copies6
The paintings of Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt 59 copies7
Of Divers Arts by Naum Gabo 24 copies8
Horace Walpole by W. S. Lewis 20 copies9
Christian Iconography by Andre Grabar 113 copies, 1 review10
Blake and Antiquity by Kathleen Raine 53 copies11
Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine 18 copies11
The Portrait in the Renaissance by John Pope-Hennessy 68 copies12
On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence, Past and Present by Jakob Rosenberg 26 copies13
The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin 397 copies, 2 reviews14
Visionary and Dreamer: Two Poetic Painters, Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones by David Cecil 24 copies15
Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts by Mario Praz 59 copies16
The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science by Jacob Bronowski 75 copies, 3 reviews18
A History of Building Types by Nickolaus Pevsner 130 copies19
Giorgio Vasari: The Man and the Book by Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase 12 copies20
The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun 140 copies, 2 reviews22
The rise and fall of the public monument by H. W. Janson 2 copies23
The Sack of Rome, 1527 by André Chastel 43 copies, 1 review26
The rare art traditions : the history of art collecting and its linked phenomena wherever these have appeared by Joseph Alsop 55 copies27
Cezanne and America Dealers Collectors Art by John Rewald 29 copies28
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade by Vincent Scully 447 copies, 1 review32
Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim 68 copies33
The Villa by James S. Ackerman 81 copies34
Imago Dei by Jaroslav Pelikan 59 copies, 1 review36
Only Connect...: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John K. G. Shearman 37 copies37
The Mediation of Ornament by Oleg Grabar 46 copies38
Gold, Silver, and Bronze by Jennifer Montagu 16 copies39
On the Laws of the Poetic Art by Anthony Hecht 29 copies41
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity by John Boardman 36 copies42
Kings & Connoisseurs by Jonathan Brown 43 copies43
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History by Arthur C. Danto 318 copies, 1 review44
Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still by John Golding 43 copies45
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose 27 copies46
From Drawing to Painting by Pierre Rosenberg 11 copies47
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe 146 copies48
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried 41 copies51
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Helen Vendler 42 copies53
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (Bollingen Series) by T. J. Clark 57 copies, 1 review56
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life by Joseph Leo Koerner 55 copies, 1 review57
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas 21 copies61
Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820 by Thomas Crow 11 copies64

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The Beginnings of Art by S. Giedion 26 copies6.1
The paintings of Nicolas Poussin [Text] by Anthony Blunt 3 copies7.1

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The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts have been delivered annually since 1952 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. They are afterward published in Bollingen Series, under the collective number XXXV. (English, Unclassified)

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