essential books about art

>>9333530
my diary desu

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What is "essential"?

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>>9333530
I like this one

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I like this one as well
Also that Plato Dialogue about that athenean fuckboy who asks Socrates about a love letter he received fron another dude and they end up talking about rhetorics (I can't remember for the life of me what the fuck it's called)

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reminder that art is a money laundering scam

>>9333607

Care to explain how this is accomplished?

I just found out there's a book, but these documentary series are off the fucking chain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk

>>9333610
This explains it well.

>Money obtained illegally—from fraud, embezzlement, bribery, etc.—needs a hiding place. A huge deposit into a bank account, with no clear indication of where that money came from, is a red flag for the IRS. So instead of depositing dirty money, or holding onto it as cash, disreputable people will often turn the money into something else (cars, mansions) or filter it through a business so it comes out the other side looking like the profits of a legitimate enterprise.

>This is money laundering—the transformation of illegally obtained funds (or dirty money) into seemingly legitimate assets (laundered money, or at least Febreezed money.) Money laundering can be tricky since governmental tax and revenue agencies keep a close eye on how money is circulated. In the US, deeds and titles require a name, at least.

>Casinos, stockbrokers, mortgage brokers, etc. must report any suspicious activity or questionable funds to the government. And banks must report any transactions over $10,000 as suspicious activity.

>However, the art market—where the price of an artwork can rise or fall by the thousands from one sentence to the next, deals are made in secrecy, and “private collectors” remain anonymous—is virtually unregulated.

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/culture/art/214699-guide-to-laundering-money-art

>>9333589
Kitsch nonsense.

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Bump

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>>9333636
Matthew Collins did a similarly brilliant documentary called "this is modern art" in the late 90's. There isn't a book for the series but the videos are available on YouTube. I'm not a massive fan of modern art but it really is a fantastic doc.

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Anything Robert Hughes is great.

>>9335407
Actually there is a book

>>9335418
I have this. It looks excellent. I haven't read it as I'm reading op's book which is impoverished in the amount of modern art it covers.

>>9335418
>>9335433

what's this book about?

>>9335464
about all those modernist movements mostly

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>>9335566
This.
Gombrich's book doesn't cover much past impressionism, probably because it wss first published in the 50's, so although it covers cave paintings, the Greeks, the Renaissance etc fantastically you need to suppliment it with something like the shock of the new to get a feeling for modern art.

Gombrich writes fantastically well for beginners without being patronising.....I also enjoy Andrew Graham dixons biographies for similar reasons. His book on Caravaggio was wonderful.

> Matthew recieving the gospel from an angel....you can almost feel her breath whispering the word of God and smell her prepubescent stank....she guides the hand of Matthew as he's a semi-iliterate publican who doesn't even wear shoes. He is a modest, humble man bewildered by the words he is committing to paper.

This painting was rejected as it wasn't grand enough. The original was destroyed in the bombing of Berlin in ww2 so, although there are digital approximations, we will never know it in color.....only from a b&w photo.

>>9335881
>> Matthew recieving the gospel from an angel....you can almost feel her breath whispering the word of God and smell her prepubescent stank....she guides the hand of Matthew as he's a semi-iliterate publican who doesn't even wear shoes. He is a modest, humble man bewildered by the words he is committing to paper.

Is this not in the first chapter of Gombrich's book?

>>9335934
Yeah.....I've never had an original thought/observation in my life. I added "prepubescent stank" myself tho. I was recently re-reading lolita.
I don't think he mentioned that the painting was destroyed as it was bombed by the allies.....I wikipedia'd that part.

I really felt erotically drawn to the angel.

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>>9335992
"Her cunt nought but a paper-cut bespangled by a whisp of cotton-candy pubic hair"

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The Ecstasy of Saint terhisa on an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel, rome, submitting to God's divinity and literally cumming buckets.


No fap has had the unintended consequence of increasing my appreciation of art.

The part on art in Jungs 'man and his symbols' was quite interesting.

>>9333530
Gombrich's own Art and Illusion, of course.

>>9333607
True, started by the Medici who obtained money illegally. Banking family my ass.