need to restart

• from dawn to decadence: 500 years of western cultural life, 1500 to the present, jacques barzun
• watchmen and philosophy: a rorschach test, william irwin, mark white

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art history

• the prehistory of the mind: the cognitive origins of art, religion and science, steven mithen
• the story of art, e.h. gombrich
• apocryphal tales, karel capek