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In his Good Books: A Book Lover's Companion (1982) Steven Gilbar asks "What do I mean by good? Not morally good, and not academically good, and not simply popular, although the book I recommend may have one or all of those qualities. 'Rewarding and pleasurable' - those terms I think characterize the books I am recommending." The titles he lists under Art are grouped in the following sub-categories: Art (In General), Art Dealing and Collecting, Painting and Drawing, Design, Fashion, Photography.
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ART (IN GENERAL)
| John Berger | About Looking. 1980 |
| Bernard Berenson | The Bernard Berenson Treasury. 1962 |
| John Canaday | What Is Art? |
| Barbaralee Diamondstein, ed. | The Art World. 1977 |
| Janet Flanner | Men and Monuments. 1957 |
| E.H. Gombrich | The Story of Art. Rev. ed. 1978 |
| Robert Hughes | The Shock of the New. 1980 |
| Aldous Huxley | On Art and Artists. 1960 |
| Hilton Kramer | The Age of the Avant-Garde. 1973 |
| Russell Lynes | The Good Old Modern. 1973 |
| Andre Malraux | The Voices of Silence |
| Herbert Read | Art and Society: Rev. ed. 1966 |
| Harold Rosenberg | Art on the Edge. 1975 |
| John Ruskin | The Lamp of Beauty: Writings on Art. 1959 |
| John Russell | The Meaning of Modern Art. 1981 |
| Meyer Schapiro | Modern Art. 1978 |
| Leo Stein | Appreciation. 1947 |
| Leo Steinberg | Other Criteria: Confrontations With Art. 1972 |
| Calvin Tomkins | Merchants and Masterpieces. 1970 |
| Giorgio Vasari | Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Rev. ed. 1568 |
| Time-Life Editors | Time-Life Library of Art. 1966-70 |
ART DEALING AND COLLECTING
| S.N. Behrman | Duveen. 1952 |
| Carl David | Collecting and Care of Fine Art. 1981 |
| Rene Gimpel | Diary of an Art Dealer. 1966 |
| Peggy Guggenheim | Out of This Century. 1946 |
| Julien Levy | Memoir of an Art Gallery. 1977 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | The Chase, The Capture: Collecting at the Metropolitan. 1975 |
| Francis Steegmuller | The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves. 1951 |
| Francis H. Taylor | The Taste of Angels. 1948 |
| Louise Hall Tharp | Mrs. Jack. 1965 |
| Ambroise Vollard | Recollections of a Picture Dealer. 1936 |
PAINTING AND DRAWING
| Charles Baudelaire | Art in Paris, 1845-1862. 1981 |
| Quentin Bell | Victorian Artists. 1968 |
| Kenneth Clark | Looking at Pictures. 1960 |
| Richard Cox | The Boticelli Madonna. 1979 |
| Jules Feiffer | The Great Comic Book Heroes. 1965 |
| James Thomas Flexner | American Old Masters. Rev. ed. 1980 |
| M.B. Goffstein | An Artist. 1980 |
| Edmund Goncourt and
Jules Goncourt |
French XVIII Century Painters. 1856-75 |
| William M. Ivins, Jr. | Prints and Visual Communication. 1953 |
| Henry James | The Painter's Eye. 1957 |
| Richard Lane | Images From the Floating World. 1978 |
| Genevieve Monnier and
Bernice Rose |
Drawing: History of an Art. 1979 |
| Frank O'Hara | Art Chronicles, 1954-66. 1975 |
| John Rewald | The History of Impressionism. Rev. ed. 1973 |
| Richard H. Childers Productions | Air Powered: The Art of the Air Brush. 1980 |
DESIGN
| Victor Arwas | Art Deco. 1980 |
| Stephen Bayley | In Good Shape. 1979 |
| Edward Booth-Clibborn and
Daniele Baroni |
The Language of Graphics. 1979 |
| Erica Brown | Interior Views: Design at Its Best. 1980 |
| Jonathan L. Fairbanks and
Elizabeth Bidwell Bates |
American Furniture, 1620 to the Present. 1981 |
| Nikolas Pevsner | Pioneers of Modern Design. Rev ed. 1964 |
| Mario Praz | The House of Life, 1964 |
| Brian Rice, Tony Evans | The English Sunrise. 1972 |
FASHION
| Michael Batterberry and
Ariane Batterberry |
Mirror, Mirror. 1977 |
| Christian Dior | Christian Dior and I. 1957 |
| Kennedy Fraser | The Fashionable Mind. 1981 |
| Alison Lurie | The Language of Clothes. 1981 |
| Irving Penn and
Diane Vreeland |
Inventive Paris Clothes, 1909-39. 1978 |
PHOTOGRAPHY
| Ansel Adams | The Camera. 1980 |
| Gail Buckland | Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. 1980 |
| A,D. Coleman | Light Readings. 1979 |
| Eastman Kodak Company | The Joy of Photography. 1979 |
| David Galloway | A Family Album. 1978 |
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