🖼️ Art & Design · France
Best Art & Design Books from France
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. France 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 France by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
La tentation de saint Antoine
Gustave Flaubert· 1884
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#2
literary-fiction
Illusions perdues
Honoré de Balzac· 1837
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#3
literary-fiction
La nausée
Jean-Paul Sartre· 1938
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#4
art-design
Poems
Charles Baudelaire· 1909
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#5
art-design
Essays
Charles Baudelaire· 1890
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#6
art-design
Curiosités esthétiques
Charles Baudelaire· 1885
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#7
art-design
Spleen de Paris
Charles Baudelaire· 1936
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#8
art-design
Mes haines
Émile Zola· 1893
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#9
art-design
The genius of architecture, or, The analogy of that art with our sensations
Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières· 1780
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#10
art-design
Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas· 1988
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#11
art-design
Art in Paris, 1845-1862
Charles Baudelaire· 1965
Library Journal
Editorial Score30/100
#12
art-design
Essays in aesthetics
Jean-Paul Sartre· 1963
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#13
art-design
The arts of Japan
Hugo Munsterberg· 1956
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#14
art-design
The Mediterranean gardener
Hugo Latymer· 1990
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#15
art-design
Essays
Jean-Paul Sartre· 1960
Library Journal
Editorial Score25/100





