📚 Art History

11 works · ordered by editions in print

How images were made, paid for and read — from cave walls to the gallery wall, and who got to be called an artist.

Below are the 11 works carrying the subject art history in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Sozialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur	Arnold Hauser	1951	129
Art history	Marilyn Stokstad	1995	46
Art	Frederick Hartt	1969	37
Pottery and porcelain	Frederick Litchfield	1880	24
The World of Delacroix	Tom Prideaux	1966	17
Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European Art	Helen Gardner	1980	17
Prebles' artforms	Patrick Frank	2005	11
WORLD HISTORY OF ART	Hugh Honour	2005	3
Art history	Marilyn Stokstad	2013	2
Imaginative Realism	James Gurney	2009	1
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica	Jessica Hundley	2021	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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