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# UC Press Makes 700 Books Free Online, Incl. Important Art Titles
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/uc-press-makes-700-books-free-online-incl-important-art-titles/
- Published: 2014-01-15T23:15:33.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:34:00.000Z
- Description: The University of California's storied academic imprint is making freely available online 700 titles published between 1984 and 2004, Open Culture has reported.
- Author: Mostafa Heddaya
- Tags: News, Dore Ashton, ebooks, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

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The University of California (Berkeley) (via Wikimedia)

The University of California’s storied [academic imprint](www.ucpress.edu/blog/about/) is making freely available online 700 titles published between 1984 and 2004, Open Culturehas [reported](http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/read-700-free-ebooks-made-available-by-the-university-of-california-press.html?ref=hyperallergic.com). The books encompass a broad range of topics, with a healthy dose of critical and historical writings on the arts.

In the field of art history and criticism, the most notable releases are arguably Dore Ashton’s [*A Fable of Modern Art*](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8779p1x3;query=;brand=ucpress&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1991) and[*A Critical Study of Philip Guston*](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4x0nb2f0;query=;brand=ucpress&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1990), though a great deal of other titles are of interest: Edwin Hall’s [*The Arnolfini Betrothal: Medieval Marriage and the Enigma of Van Eyck’s Double Portrait*](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1d5nb0d9;query=;brand=ucpress&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1997); essayist and poet W. S. Di Piero’s [*Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art*](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft1n39n811;query=;brand=ucpress&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1991); Paul J. Karlstrom’s [*On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950*](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5p30070c;query=;brand=ucpress&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1996); and Ellen Wiley Todd’s [*The “New Woman” Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street*](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft9k4009m7;query=;brand=ucpress&ref=hyperallergic.com) (1993).

Below are direct links to the art and architecture categories as they appear in [the index page for the publicly-accessible ebooks](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?facet=subject;rights=Public;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (the figure in parenthesis indicates the number of titles available):

- [Architectural History](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Architectural%20History;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (5)
- [Architecture](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Architecture;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (13)
- [Art](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Art;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (34)
- [Art Criticism](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Art%20Criticism;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (4)
- [Art History](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Art%20History;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (28)
- [Art Theory](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Art%20Theory;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (5)
- [Art and Architecture](http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/search?subject-ucp=Art%20and%20Architecture;subject-ucp-join=exact;rights=Public;sort=title;style=eschol;brand=eschol&ref=hyperallergic.com) (4)