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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 471,413 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 445,337 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,161 ratings — published 2002
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,095 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 383,905 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,697 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 323,258 ratings — published 2000
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,442 ratings — published 2002
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,222 ratings — published 1988
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 91,997 ratings — published 2023
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,808 ratings — published 2012
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,247 ratings — published 1973
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 367,943 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 132,503 ratings — published 2017
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,413 ratings — published 1914
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,101,663 ratings — published 2008
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,962 ratings — published 1926
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,073,248 ratings — published 1601
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,610 ratings — published 1994
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 151,459 ratings — published 1992
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,248,974 ratings — published 2009
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,843 ratings — published 1912
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,501 ratings — published 2004
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 108,171 ratings — published 2007
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,920 ratings — published 2005
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,801,525 ratings — published 2010
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,295 ratings — published 1988
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,825 ratings — published 2011
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,493 ratings — published 2007
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,616 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,392 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 — 24,963 ratings — published 1936
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,219 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,653 ratings — published 1995
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,041 ratings — published 1980
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,994 ratings — published 2007
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,844 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,186 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 168,740 ratings — published 2008
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,405 ratings — published 1999
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 524,285 ratings — published 1968
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,043 ratings — published 1519
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,840 ratings — published 2014
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,703 ratings — published 2013
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,258 ratings — published 2008
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,351 ratings — published 1972
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.93 — 788,387 ratings — published 1999
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.27 — 128,034 ratings — published 1929
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,868 ratings — published 2023
“Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.”
― Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists
― Giving Back: A Tribute to Generations of African American Philanthropists
“Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on how to be cool, hip - and keep in mind that, for kids and younger people, to be hip and cool is the same as to be admired and accepted and included and so Unalone. Forget so-called peer-pressure. It's more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendant horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self. Once we've hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young. The U.S. arts are our guide to inclusion. A how-to. We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age where the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of whatever it wears. And then it's stuck there, the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentiment and unsophisticated naivete.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
