SeriesA. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

48 Works Popularity 2,431 (3,425 Members) 4,887 Books 22 Reviews ½ 4.0
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Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry by Jacques Maritain 181 copies1
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark 849 copies, 7 reviews2
The Art of Sculpture by Herbert Read 34 copies3
Painting and Reality by Etienne Gilson 78 copies4
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E. H. Gombrich 987 copies, 5 reviews5
The Eternal Present: A Contribution on Constancy and Change by S. Giedion 19 copies6
The paintings of Nicolas Poussin by Anthony Blunt 54 copies7
Of Divers Arts by Naum Gabo 22 copies8
Horace Walpole by W. S. Lewis 16 copies9
Christian Iconography by Andre Grabar 104 copies10
Blake and Antiquity by Kathleen Raine 47 copies11
Blake and Tradition by Kathleen Raine 25 copies11
The Portrait in the Renaissance by John Pope-Hennessy 65 copies12
On Quality in Art: Criteria of Excellence, Past and Present by Jakob Rosenberg 24 copies13
The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin 362 copies, 1 review14
Visionary and Dreamer: Two Poetic Painters, Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones by David Cecil 21 copies15
Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts by Mario Praz 49 copies16
The Visionary Eye: Essays in the Arts, Literature, and Science by Jacob Bronowski 70 copies, 3 reviews18
A History of Building Types by Nikolaus Pevsner 110 copies19
Giorgio Vasari: The Man and the Book by Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase 9 copies20
The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun 132 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 40 copies, 1 review26
The rare art traditions : the history of art collecting and its linked phenomena wherever these have appeared by Joseph Alsop 50 copies27
Cezanne and America: Dealers, Collectors, Artists and Critics, 1891-1921 (A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by John Rewald 28 copies28
Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade by Vincent Scully 418 copies, 1 review32
Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim 60 copies33
The Villa by James S. Ackerman 68 copies34
Imago Dei by Jaroslav Pelikan 50 copies36
Only Connect...: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John K. G. Shearman 34 copies37
The Mediation of Ornament by Oleg Grabar 43 copies38
Gold, Silver, and Bronze by Jennifer Montagu 15 copies39
On the Laws of the Poetic Art by Anthony Hecht 26 copies41
The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity by John Boardman 33 copies42
Kings & Connoisseurs by Jonathan Brown 40 copies43
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History by Arthur C. Danto 288 copies, 1 review44
Paths to the Absolute: Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still by John Golding 40 copies45
Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art by Lothar Ledderose 27 copies46
From Drawing to Painting by Pierre Rosenberg 10 copies47
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe 133 copies48
The Moment of Caravaggio by Michael Fried 36 copies51
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts) by Helen Vendler 38 copies53
Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica (Bollingen Series) by T. J. Clark 50 copies, 1 review56
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life by Joseph Leo Koerner 45 copies57
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences by Craig Clunas 16 copies61
Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820 by Thomas Crow 7 copies64

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The Beginnings of Art by S. Giedion 25 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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