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
George Ohr, Art Potter: The Apostle of Individuality
Robert A. Ellison
Futurism and Futurisms
Pontus Hulten
Füssli, the Wild Swiss (Fuseli, the Wild Swiss)
Christoph Becker, ed.
Fritz Kahn: Man Machine
Uta and Thilo von Debschitz
Friedrich Kiesler: Architekt, Maler, Bildhauer, 1890–1965
Dieter Bogner, ed.
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
The Faith of Graffiti
Jon Naar et al.
The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera
Bertram Wolfe
Essays on Mexican Art
Octavio Paz
El Lissitzky
Frank Lubbers, ed.
Einstein, Picasso, Space, Time and the Beauty that Causes Havoc
Arthur I. Miller
Dynamo
Julie Houis et Collectif
Duchamp: A Biography
Calvin Tomkins
Double-Face: The Story about Fashion and Art from Mohammed to Warhol
Christoph Doswald, ed.
Donald Judd: Raume Spaces
Donald Judd et al.
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959–1975
Donald Judd
Die Welt als Labyrinth (The World as a Labyrinth)
Gustav René Hocke
The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
E. D. Hirsch et al.
The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898–1918
Felix Klee
Dialogue in the Void: Beckett & Giacometti
Matti Megged
Design and Art (Documents of Contemporary Art)
Alex Coles
The Deposition of Richard Prince: In the Case of Cariou V. Prince et al.
Greg Allen, ed.
Daybook: The Journey of an Artist
Ann Truitt
Dada: Art and Anti-Art
Hans Richter
Cy Twombly: Zeichnungen 1953–1973
Cy Twombly et al.
The Cut-Outs of Henri Matisse
John Elderfield
The Culture of the Copy
Hillel Schwartz
Constantin Brancusi
Friedrich Teja Bach
Conformismo e Trasgressione
Annamaria Andreoli
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