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Best books on appreciating art, how to look at paintings, art history, and the like?

>> No.17356936

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Aesthetics
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Fine_Arts

tldr: start with the greeks, or french, english, italians, germans of 18th century and stay the fuck away from anything 20th century

>> No.17356940

>>17356914
Lectures on Aesthetics - Hegel

>> No.17356957

>>17356914
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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>and stay the fuck away from anything 20th century

>> No.17357161

>>17356936
I enjoy those links a lot anon but they don't seem to give tangible advice on what to look for in paintings, how to tell a good painting from a bad one, etc?

>> No.17357175

>>17357161
the relevant writers are literally mentioned in the articles

>> No.17357196

from an earlier thread
>>/lit/thread/S17074046#p17075080