Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil)

Charles Baudelaire · 1857

Les Chants de Maldoror (FR)

Comte de Lautréamont · 1869

Visions of Excess

Georges Bataille · 1927–1939 (sel. writings)

Voices of Silence

André Malraux · 1951

Principles of Art History

Heinrich Wölfflin · 1915

Art in its Own Terms

Fairfield Porter · 1979

Domestic metaphysics.

In Relation to the Whole

Rackstraw Downes · 2005

Three decades of essays from the painter’s vantage.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Henry Cornelius Agrippa · 1531 (Tyson ed.)

Illuminations

Arthur Rimbaud · 1886

A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance

Stéphane Mallarmé · 1897

The Elements of Drawing

John Ruskin · 1857

Journal

Eugène Delacroix · 1822–1863

Codex Madrid

Leonardo da Vinci · 15th c.

Massive facsimile of notebooks. Worth the wait to load.

Ways of Seeing

John Berger · 1972

How images train attention.

Against Interpretation

Susan Sontag · 1964