Recs if you like The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums... and why we need to talk about it...
In which the title is comically long
We love books with a verbose title, and this list celebrates them! Suggestions welcome 🤗
Memory : Narratives and Monuments
A list of books about how we remember, or avoid remembering history.
Commemoration, memorials, monuments, narratives, and rhetoric.
Philosophical, creative and social justice themes. Decolonization focused.
Considering statues, museums, journalism, books, etc. with nuance and depth.
Art is Political!
Creative expression x political themes
Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)
human rights for all? why yes!
or: some leftist nonfiction. we love being educated and wanting basic human rights for everybody ♡
In the Eye of the Beholder
Nonfiction books and essays about visual art and how it functions as a mirror to ourselves. They discuss art's meaning, its interpretations, how art changes through our eyes, the effects of systematic discrimination upon how art is made and consumed, and help to develop better, more critical, and more introspective ways of looking at art and our museums.
Recommendations welcome!
Hyperfixating on Niche Facts
Let's learn a little bit about a lot. Nonfiction in the niche, unique, or not-commonly-discussed topics.
Authors reading their own books
Audiobooks where the author narrates themselves (or is apart of a cast, not just some preface type stuff) Open for suggestions
the system sucks and you WILL hear about it
Tired about the twisted, corrupt, cruel system we live in that advertises meritocratic „values“ at your face while in fact valuing capital and control over everything else, to the detriment of everyone else, but most of all those that are in need of basic necessities but Nooo The B***ionaires need the 50 ply organic locally grown grass fed chemical free sulfate free ad free HD ultra lite premium ecofriendly recyclable recyled child safe consumption safe 10-in-1 deluxe toiletpaper!
Reading Specifically, and Deeply
Niche non-fiction to open your mind to a world in specifics
non-fiction tbr
my personal non-fiction tbr list
