Now here is a good idea for a website. Interview a series of people who really know their subject, and ask them about their 5 favourite books on a subject.
Except couldn’t really find anything arty or crafty on the menus. But I knew that couldn’t be right, because I found it via an Andrew Graham-Dixon tweet. So I did a bit of digging and found some interesting lists.
But be warned, there are some expensive books on there. I had a look at one about Elizabethian embroidery which turned out to cost £250.
- Andrew Graham-Dixon’s favourite art books
- inspiring illustrations
- fashion biographies
- typefaces
- extraordinary art books
- writing about art
- Vermeer and studio method
- British buildings
- Architecture history
- Pop art
- Context of architecture
- Pop modern
- Art and culture in Elizabethan England
- Art crime
- Art history for teenagers
- Leonardo da Vinci
