History of Art Literature Anthologies. A Series Edited by Francesco Mazzaferro

History of Art Literature Anthologies
Series edited by Francesco Mazzaferro

Please, click on the title of each anthology to read its presentation.


Ernst Karl Guhl, Künstler-Briefe [Artists' Letters], 1853-1856

Julius von Schlosser and Two Anthologies of Art History Sources (1892 and 1896)

Enrico Panzacchi. [The Book of the Artists. An Anthology] 
Il Libro degli Artisti. Un'antologia, 1902

[Letters of the Artists of the Nineteenth Century] Künstlerbriefe aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Edited by Else Cassirer, Berlin, 1914

Paul Ratouis de Limay. Les Artistes Écrivains, Parigi, 1921

Paul Westheim, Confessions of Artists. Letters, Memoirs and Observations of Contemporary Artists, 1925

Florent Fels, Propos d'Artistes [The Propositions of the Artists], 1925

Hermann Uhde-Bernays, Künstlerbriefe über Kunst [Artists' Letters on Art], 1926

Hans Ekstein, Artists on Arts (1938 and 1954)

Pierre du Colombier, Les Plus Beaux Écrits Des Grands Artistes (Parigi, 1946)

From the Old to the New World: 

the Anthologies by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves (1945) and by Elizabeth Gilmore Holt (1947)

La critica dei Salons [The Criticism of Salons]. Edited by Mary Pittaluga (1948)

Roberto Salvini (edited by). 

La critica d'arte moderna: la pura visibilità [Criticism of modern art: the pure visibility] (1949)

Paul Éluard. Anthologie des écrits sur l’art (1952-1954)

Painters on Painting 

Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Eric Protter

'The Masters of Art discuss on Art' - A Soviet Anthology on History of Art Sources (1965-1970)

Lin Yutang. Teoria cinese dell’arte [The Chinese Theory of Art] (Italian edition, 1967)

Francisco Calvo Serraller, Teoría de la Pintura del Siglo de Oro (1981)

Herschel B. Chipp 

Theories of Modern Art: a Source Book by Artists and Critics.

With Contributions by Peter Selz and Joshua Taylor

Paola Barocchi

Testimonianze e polemiche figurative in Italia

[Statements and Controversies on Fine Arts in Italy]

Volume 1 - The Nineteenth Century. From Ideal Beauty to the Pre-Raphaelites

Volume 2 - From Divisionism to the Twentieth Century

Dore Ashton
Twentieth-Century Artists on Art

Storia dell’arte italiana in poesia 

[History of Italian Art in Poetry] 
Edited by Plinio Perilli

Bibliothek der Kunstliteratur [Library of Art Literature] (1992-1995). Edited by Gottfried Boehm and Norbert Miller

Fintan Cullen. Sources in Irish Art. A Reader (2000)

Islamic Art and Visual Culture. An Anthology of Sources.

Edited by D. Fairchild Ruggles (2011)

Chiara Marin. 

L’arte delle donne. Per una Kunstliteratur al femminile nell’Italia dell’Ottocento

[Women's Art. For a Female Kunstliteratur in Nineteenth Century Italy] (2013)

Écrire la peinture. De Diderot à Quignard.  Une anthologie réunie par Pascal Dethurens.  
[Writing on painting. From Diderot to Quignard. Anthology curated by Pascal Dethurens]. 

Quellen zur Theorie und Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte. Eine kommentierte Anthologie 

[Sources of Theory and History of Art History. An Annotated Anthology]

A series curated by Hubert Locher

Perspectives croisées. La critique d'art franco-allemande - 1870-1945
[Crossed perspectives. Franco-German Art Criticism - 1870-1945]
Edited by Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Mathilde Arnoux and Friederike Kitschen

Émilie Passignat

[The Cinquecento. Sources in the History of Art]

Il Cinquecento. Le fonti per la storia dell’arte

Jessica Lack
Why Are We 'Artists'? 100 World Art Manifestos