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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Wassily Kandinsky

96 pages • first pub 1912 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction art philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out by Rick Alan Ross

Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out

Rick Alan Ross

586 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction psychology religion informative slow-paced
Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siècle Culture by Bram Dijkstra

Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siècle Culture

Bram Dijkstra

480 pages • first pub 1986 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction art feminism history reflective slow-paced
Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

Earthseed #1-2

Octavia E. Butler

1600 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
fiction fantasy science fiction speculative fiction adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
A Rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans

A Rebours

Joris-Karl Huysmans

433 pages • first pub 1884 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

Edward Dolnick

349 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag

Against Interpretation: And Other Essays

Susan Sontag

336 pages • first pub 1966 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction art essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art by Simon Morley

Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art

Simon Morley

224 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

275 pages • first pub 1969 (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
fiction classics historical literary science fiction dark funny reflective medium-paced
Unexpected Journeys: Santa Monica Exhibition (Standard Poster) by Janet Kaplan
Unexpected Journeys: Santa Monica Exhibition (Standard Poster)
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Janet Kaplan

Unexpected Journeys: Santa Monica Exhibition (Standard Poster)

Janet Kaplan

286 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0quenquire's review
nonfiction art autobiography biography informative medium-paced