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Books like About Looking

Readers who finished About Looking by John Berger and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Criticism & Theory, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Antiques & Collectibles, and Art.

Top related books to About Looking

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Antiques & Collectibles

When Art Really Works

Andy Pankhurst

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art

Colours and Colour Vision An Introductory Survey

Daniel Kernell

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art

Invention And Understanding A Pedagogical Guide to Three Dimensions

Steven Careau

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art

Art and the Brain

Joseph Goguen

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art

Unflattening

Nick Sousanis

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art

Recreative Minds Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology

Gregory Currie

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art

Trench Art A Brief History & Guide, 1914-1939

Nicholas J. Saunders

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Antiques & Collectibles • Art

100 Artists’ Manifestos From the Futurists to the Stuckists

Alex Danchev

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Antiques & Collectibles • Art

#10

Movements in Art Since 1945 Issues and Concepts

Edward Lucie-Smith

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Antiques & Collectibles • Art

#11

In-House Book Binding and Repair

Sharon McQueen

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Antiques & Collectibles • Art

#12

Disney In-Between The Lost Years 1966-1986

Stephen Anderson

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Antiques & Collectibles • Art

#13

Creative Intelligence and Self-Liberation Korzybski Non-Aristotelian Thinking and Enlightenment

Ted Falconar

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Antiques & Collectibles • Psychology

#14

Memory and History Understanding Memory as Source and Subject

Joan Tumblety

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#15

Encountering the Past Within the Present Modern Experiences of Time

Siobhan Kattago

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#16

European Civil War Films Memory, Conflict, and Nostalgia

Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#17

Emotion and the Arts

Mette Hjort

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Art • Psychology

#18

Understanding Art

Lois Fichner-Rathus

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#19

The Phenomenology of Observation Drawing Reflections on an Enduring Practice

Rose Montgomery-Whicher

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#20

Other Than Identity The Subject, Politics and Art

Juliet Steyn

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Art • Psychology

#21

Artforms An Introduction to the Visual Arts

Duane Preble

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#22

Distributed Perception Resonances and Axiologies

Natasha Lushetich

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#23

The Tiger in the Smoke Art and Culture in Post-war Britain

Lynda Nead

Themes: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition • Art • Psychology

#24

Biography, Identity and the Modern Interior

Penny Sparke

Themes: Criticism & Theory • Art • Psychology

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with About Looking by John Berger. Connected by Criticism & Theory, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Antiques & Collectibles. Authors featured include John Berger, Andy Pankhurst, Daniel Kernell, Steven Careau, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.