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
The New Art—the New Life
Harry Holtzman et al.
A Nervous Splendor
Frederic Morton
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, 1679–1701
Gai Wang
The Modern Ideal
Paul Greenhalgh
The Mind in the Cave
David Lewis-Williams
Meditations on a Hobby Horse and Other Essays on the Theory of Art
Ernst (E. H.) Gombrich
Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West
Wesley M. Burnside
Masters of Modern Art
Alfred Barr
Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé
Alexander von Solodkoff
Mark Rothko: A Biography
James E. B. Breslin
Marinetti: Selected Writings
F. T. Marinetti
Marianne Brandt
Hans Brockhage et al.
Marcel Duchamp or The Castle of Purity
Octavio Paz
Marcel Duchamp in Munich 1912
Thomas Girst, ed.
Magritte and Contemporary Art
Stephanie Barron
The Magic of a People
Alexander Girard
Madame de Pompadour
Nancy Mitford
Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour
Gerald Matt et al.
Lothar Meggendorfers Spielwelt
Hildegard Krahe
The Living Museum
Samuel Cauman
Lives of the Great Twentieth Century Artists
Edward Lucie-Smith
Lives of the Artists
Calvin Tomkins
The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari
Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?)
Charlotte Salomon
The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
Erwin Panofsky
The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
Leo Steinberg
Le Livre futuriste
Giovanni Lista
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