History of Art Reading List

History of Art at Oxford and Cambridge allows you to study art as an academic pursuit, rather than the practical implications felt through the Fine Art course at Oxford and elsewhere.

As such, an appreciation of art from a historical and cross-cultural academic perspective is important to helping you develop your subject-knowledge prior to interview. Our History of Art reading lists offer you analytical and historical readings for the discipline, to give you an overview of some topics covered in the History of Art syllabuses.