{"id":76006,"date":"2025-09-20T22:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/76006\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:37:19","slug":"top-5-art-books-chosen-by-art-historian-and-comedian-verity-babbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/76006\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 art books, chosen by art historian and comedian Verity Babbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verity Babbs is the founder of\u00a0Art Laughs<\/a>, live art-themed comedy events. Her book The History of Art in One Sentence: 500 Years of Art (But Funny) continues her mission to make the art world more accessible and bring laughter into cultural spaces. Here are her top five books about art.<\/p>\n

Art, Annotated<\/a> by DK\u00a0<\/p>\n

With lovely, great big pictures and insightful, engaging commentary that brings clarity and context to ground your understanding, DK have created a joyful and innovative new format that makes the world\u2019s greatest masterpieces both accessible and deeply enjoyable to explore.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Muse<\/a> by Ruth Millington, illustrated by Dina Razin<\/p>\n

A diverting and highly accessible exploration of the remarkable women who shaped the course of art history, whose stories have for far too long been pushed to the sideline and overlooked in the traditional narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clay: A Human History<\/a> by Jennifer Lucy Allan\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re neutral about poetry<\/a> or a total clay head (rock on), this love letter to the craft will change how you think about and connect with the ceramic objects in your life that surround you.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u202fPoor Artists<\/a> by The White\u202fPube\u00a0<\/p>\n

Poor Artists\u202fby The White Pube, Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad is part expos\u00e9, part fever dream, and entirely empowering; a wild rollercoaster that offers sharp, unflinching glimpses into the Pandora\u2019s box that is the art world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reframing Blackness: What\u2019s Black about \u201cHistory of Art\u201d?<\/a> by Alayo Akinkugbe\u00a0<\/p>\n

The impressive recent debut of one of art history\u2019s most exciting and original young voices, this vital and thought-provoking reframing of art history is certain to secure its place on essential reading lists for years to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Verity Babbs is the founder of\u00a0Art Laughs, live art-themed comedy events. Her book The History of Art in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[595,359,18,117,8420,19,17,34872],"class_list":{"0":"post-76006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-from-the-magazine","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-top-5-books"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}