Art history book recommendation please

[craner]

As well as the aforementioned 'Story of Art' and 'Shock of the New', some art related books I've enjoyed:

'About Modern Art' by David Sylvester
'Interviews with Francis Bacon' by David Sylvester
'Nothing if Not Critical' by Robert Hughes
'The Nude' by Sir Kenneth Clark
'Five Centuries of British Painting: From Holbein to Hodgkin (World of Art)' by Andrew Wilton (World of Art books are generally really good, ditto Taschen guides)
'Matt's Old Masters: Titian, Rubens, Velasquez' by Matthew Collings
'Man with the Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a portrait by Lucien Freud' by Martin Gayford
'Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters' by Martin Gayford
'The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles' by Martin Gayford
'Art and Illusion' E.H. Gombrich

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[woops]

I've read van Gogh's letters he was a god botherer when not drinking

 

[sufi]

Really? noone recommended

Books by Catherine Ingram (Author of This is Dali)

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