🖼️ Art & Design · United Kingdom
Best Art & Design Books from United Kingdom
Books about art and design range from scholarly monographs to accessible surveys, from artists' own accounts of their practice to cultural histories of visual movements. United Kingdom has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in art & design, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best art & design from United Kingdom by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
The tragedy of Macbeth
William Shakespeare· 1790
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#2
art-design
Vision and design
Roger Eliot Fry· 1920
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#3
literary-fiction
Those barren leaves, a novel
Aldous Huxley· 1925
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#4
biography-memoir
Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare· 1593
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#5
cooking-food
Kleine Schriften
Georg Forster· 1983
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#6
art-design
The brown decades
Lewis Mumford· 1931
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#7
art-design
Ways of Seeing
John Berger· 1972
ALA Notable Books
Editorial Score38/100
#8
literary-fiction
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Evelyn Waugh· 1955
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#9
art-design
Miss Bellard's inspiration
William Dean Howells· 1905
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#10
art-design
The art and architecture of Russia
George Heard Hamilton· 1954
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#11
art-design
Transformations
Roger Eliot Fry· 1926
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#12
art-design
A counterfeit presentment
William Dean Howells· 1877
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#13
art-design
From garden cities to new towns
Dennis Hardy· 1991
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#14
art-design
The arts and the art of criticism
Theodore Meyer Greene· 1940
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#15
art-design
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis· 1939
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#16
art-design
The end of print
Lewis Blackwell· 1995
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#17
art-design
Pattern design
Lewis Foreman Day· 1903
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#18
art-design
Sticks and stones
Lewis Mumford· 1924
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#19
art-design
Free culture
Lawrence Lessig· 2004
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#20
art-design
World so wide
Sinclair Lewis· 1951
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#21
art-design
On art and artists
Aldous Huxley· 1960
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#22
art-design
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence· 1974
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#23
art-design
Birth of Western Painting
Robert Byron· 1968
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#24
art-design
Art and technics
Lewis Mumford· 1952
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#25
art-design
Themes and variations
Aldous Huxley· 1950
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#26
art-design
Art-history as an academic study
Roger Eliot Fry· 1933
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#27
art-design
A Psychoanalytic Approach To Visual Artists
James W. Hamilton· 2012
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#28
art-design
Concepts of beauty in Renaissance art
Francis Ames-Lewis· 1998
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#29
art-design
The Great Migration
Jacob Lawrence· 1993
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#30
art-design
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Finlay, Ian Hamilton.· 1972
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#31
art-design
Smashing logo design
Gareth Hardy· 2011
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#32
art-design
Graphic design
Milton Glaser· 1973
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#33
art-design
Freeways
Lawrence Halprin· 1966
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#34
art-design
Newsletter design
Edward A. Hamilton· 1995
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#35
art-design
Milton Glaser
Milton Glaser· 1973
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#36
art-design
Using Drupal
Angela Byron· 2008
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#37
art-design
Instructional design
Robert D. Tennyson· 1997
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#38
art-design
HTML5 Media
Shelley Powers· 2011
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#39
art-design
History of interior design and furniture
Robbie G. Blakemore· 1996
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#40
art-design
Design + environment
Helen Lewis· 2001
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#41
art-design
Greek architecture
A. W. Lawrence· 1957
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#42
art-design
Artist's photo reference
Gary Greene· 1998
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#43
art-design
Utopian England
Dennis Hardy· 2000
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#44
art-design
Color drawing
Michael E. Doyle· 1980
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#45
art-design
The master builders
Blake, Peter· 1960
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#46
art-design
Architectural practice and procedure
Hamilton H. Turner· 1925
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#47
art-design
Victorian Photography, Literature and the Invention of Modern Memory
Jennifer Green-Lewis· 2017
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score25/100
#48
art-design
Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture
Lewis Johnson· 2013
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score25/100
#49
art-design
Protecting Suburban America
Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga· 2016
Library Journal
Editorial Score25/100
