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Last weekend you met the love of your life: she's sweet, smart, and she's into sports--she is your perfect woman. There is just one problem: in the initial moments of coquetry, you told a little fib to try and relate more to this amazing specimen of a human being. Upon finding out she was a graphic designer you conjured up all the knowledge you learned in that one semester of art history and feigned the part of the sensitive, yet alarmingly masculine twenty-something artist. Better get reading...

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The Grove Book of Art Writing 
Martin Gayford & Karen Wright

The Grove Book of Art Writing covers topics from artists in their studios, humanity in art, and art and psychology to art, travel and beyond.

Writers on Artists 
A.S. Byatt & David Bowie

This book features 39 art critiques (originally published in Modern Painters magazine), and short biographies of each artist and writer. Reading it is a great way to learn more about art.

Lives of the Great 20th Century Artists 
Edward Lucie-Smith

This easily readable book provides biographies for 100 famous--and not so famous--artists of the 20th century. It also includes examples of their work.

No Wave: Post-Punk, Underground, New York, 1976–1980 
Thurston Moore and Byron Coley

This book includes rare photographs and little known details that give us insight into the No Wave Movement. 

Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art 
David Batchelor

In this book artists write about their thoughts, philosophies, approaches and theories regarding colour. All of the writings are quoted from original documents--and the book provides details of where they were originally published or sourced. 

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