Chosen Books

Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
240 books
Historical Color Guide: Primitive to Modern Times with Thirty Plates in Color
Elizabeth Burris-Meyer
Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West
Wesley M. Burnside
Marianne Brandt
Hans Brockhage et al.
Mark Rothko: A Biography
James E. B. Breslin
Cleopatra’s Nose
Daniel J. Boorstin
Friedrich Kiesler: Architekt, Maler, Bildhauer, 1890–1965
Dieter Bogner, ed.
Cent ans d’histoire de France
Emmanuel Berl
Rediscovered Masterpieces of Mesoamerica
Gerald Berjonneau et al.
The Shape of a Pocket
John Berger
Füssli, the Wild Swiss (Fuseli, the Wild Swiss)
Christoph Becker, ed.
Art & Fear
David Bayles et al.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Michael Baxandall
La Sparizione dell’Arte (The Disappearance of Art)
Jean Baudrillard
Système de la Mode (The Fashion System)
Roland Barthes
Magritte and Contemporary Art
Stephanie Barron
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life
Carrie Barratt et al.
Masters of Modern Art
Alfred Barr
Punk’s Dead
Simon Barker et al.
Constantin Brancusi
Friedrich Teja Bach
Super Constellation
Christoph Asendorf
Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim
The Power of the Center
Rudolf Arnheim
Ocean Flowers
Carol Armstrong et al.
Storia dell’Arte Italiana (3 vols.)
Giulio Carlo Argan
The Art of Florence
Glenn M. Andres et al.
Conformismo e Trasgressione
Annamaria Andreoli
The Deposition of Richard Prince: In the Case of Cariou V. Prince et al.
Greg Allen, ed.
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