why aren't there many comprehensive books about art history?

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see what I mean?

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and for example there are more books about one philosopher in the same timeframe than there are books about an entire period of art history

>>2583252
what are you smoking OP? maybe you can't access free books on art history, but there is still tons of scholarship on all those things you mention. that said, I think a part of the problem is that a lot of these works are also in french, italian and german, making a lot of scholarship inaccessible to us anglophone normies.

>>2584085
these seem like pretty good evidence to me:

>>2583275
>>2583267

the fact that you couldn't even think of one example of this scholarship says a lot

If you are sincerely interested in impressionism then this Met catalog would be of interest.
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Origins_of_Impressionism#about_the_title

>>2584432
>the fact that you couldn't even think of one example of this scholarship says a lot
I'm not sure if that was an insult or not... but anyway I'm not trying to get into an argument and I never pretended to know anything about art historical scholarship.
All I'm saying is that there are plenty of art historians out there, but libgen usually favors english books so a lot of international scholarship might be missing. And if you asking for art history books or you want me to provide you a list of scholars to prove my point, I don't mind doing so; it's just that I wouldn't have read any of them.

>>2585366
typing into google i found this in a few seconds
https://dictionaryofarthistorians.org/a.html