Books on theory and criticism abound and often cross many disciplines. The following represent only a sampling, and a biased one, of the many theoretical works available in a variety of areas and eras. Search the WNCLN catalog under subject for "art theory" or "art criticism". 

Baxandall, Michael. Patterns of Intention: On the historical explanation of pictures, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Blunt, Anthony. Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940

Bryson, Norman, ed. Calligram: Essays in New Art History from France. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988

Docherty, Thomas. Postmodernism: A Reader. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1993

Harrison, Charles and Paul Wood. Art in Theory 1900-1990, Oxford: Blackwells, 1992.   (A very useful anthology).

Ross, Stephen D. Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.  (Another excellent anthology).

Smagula, Howard. Re-Visions: New Perspectives of Art Criticism. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.

Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. 2nd ed.,  London: A Tiranti, 1952.