Visual Arts


Ways of Seeing
On Photography
The Story of Art
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]
In Praise of Shadows
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Wall and Piece
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The Animator's Survival Kit
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
A History of Japanese Art by Noritake TsudaWave and Ripple Design Book by Satoshi NakamotoRyukyu - Okinawa Impressionism by Rob KajiwaraNeon Spectacular by Kody Shafer77 Dances by Stephen Addiss
Japanese Visual Arts
54 books — 5 voters

Dance With Me by Heidi CullinanMuscling Through by J.L. MerrowSt. Nacho's by Z.A. MaxfieldMy Fair Captain by J.L. LangleyFatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon
Best Gay Romance with Artists
404 books — 197 voters
Joy & Sorrow by Peter Sean DalyDaisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
ATY 2020 - A Book Related To The Arts
313 books — 125 voters


Ashmita Acharya
We create art, and those artworks shape us into what we are. We, as human beings, are capable of creating art. Or, perhaps, because of these arts, we have the capacity to become humans humanely.
Ashmita Acharya, Art Adventure: Visual Arts

Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporary viewer they have become a reassuring confirmation of left-of-centre politics, of anti-establishment positions and of an intellectual kudos that doesn’t need art to look classical to be meaningful. And the frankness of the male artist’s unflinchingly libidinal vision is taken as evidence of the sepa ...more
Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies

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