29 books
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Arts Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 467,943 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 441,497 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,428 ratings — published 2002
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,209 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 382,066 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,012 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 321,435 ratings — published 2000
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 120,268 ratings — published 2002
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,736 ratings — published 1988
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,392 ratings — published 2012
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,516 ratings — published 1973
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,945 ratings — published 2023
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 130,907 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,036,554 ratings — published 2008
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,545 ratings — published 1914
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 362,882 ratings — published 2010
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,590 ratings — published 1926
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,066,055 ratings — published 1601
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 105,666 ratings — published 1994
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 149,580 ratings — published 1992
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,216,520 ratings — published 2009
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,986 ratings — published 2004
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 107,819 ratings — published 2007
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,263 ratings — published 2005
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,773,261 ratings — published 2010
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,320 ratings — published 1912
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,049 ratings — published 1988
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 28,983 ratings — published 2014
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,137 ratings — published 2007
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,574 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,606 ratings — published 1993
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,804 ratings — published 1936
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,226 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,619 ratings — published 2011
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,956 ratings — published 2007
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,814 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,059 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 168,517 ratings — published 2008
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,319 ratings — published 1999
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 53,830 ratings — published 1519
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 62,118 ratings — published 2014
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,666 ratings — published 2013
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,777 ratings — published 2008
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,518 ratings — published 1980
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.93 — 785,588 ratings — published 1999
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 520,194 ratings — published 1968
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.27 — 126,061 ratings — published 1929
Johnny Mnemonic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,267 ratings — published 1981
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,054,147 ratings — published 2013
“The point is, art never stopped a war and never got anybody a job. That was never its function. Art cannot change events. But it can change people. It can affect people so that they are changed... because people are changed by art – enriched, ennobled, encouraged – they then act in a way that may affect the course of events... by the way they vote, they behave, the way they think.”
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“...the arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.”
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