Nonfiction Art Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 469,263 ratings — published 1950
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 106,537 ratings — published 2023
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,945 ratings — published 1993
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,705 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 90,172 ratings — published 2023
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,432 ratings — published 2016
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 342,323 ratings — published 2012
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,652 ratings — published 2009
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,044 ratings — published 1994
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,039 ratings — published 2024
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,304 ratings — published 2016
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 442,935 ratings — published 1972
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 62,403 ratings — published 2014
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,748 ratings — published 1926
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,255 ratings — published 2018
Michelangelo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 213 ratings — published
Monet (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 355 ratings — published 1990
Van Gogh (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 344 ratings — published
What We See When We Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,987 ratings — published 2014
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 382,732 ratings — published 1979
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,169 ratings — published 2011
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,708 ratings — published 2009
Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,518 ratings — published
The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 322 ratings — published 2022
How to Fail as an Artist: My Best Tips (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin (Literary Conversations)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.46 — 114 ratings — published 2008
Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,668 ratings — published 2016
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,158 ratings — published 1998
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,701 ratings — published 1989
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,817 ratings — published 2017
The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,945 ratings — published 2004
Hopper (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,912 ratings — published 1990
Hokusai (Basic Art)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 260 ratings — published 2018
Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.06 — 911 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.88 — 354 ratings — published 1986
Rembrandt: The mystery of the revealed form (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,322 ratings — published 1992
J.C. Leyendecker: Monumental tribute to the Arrow Collar artist who invented America's debonair advertising ideal. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.60 — 349 ratings — published 2008
Monuments of Medieval Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published 1979
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.61 — 18 ratings — published 1998
Van Gogh (Phaidon Art and Ideas)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 47 ratings — published 2002
John Singer Sargent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.65 — 74 ratings — published 1998
Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.23 — 384 ratings — published 2025
Draw Your Adventures: Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travels Near and Far (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.39 — 103 ratings — published
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,047 ratings — published 2019
New Worlds, Year Eight: More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God: A spiritual meditation on his music and creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 87 ratings — published
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,972 ratings — published 2007
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 19,944 ratings — published 2010
Star Wars Art: Ralph McQuarrie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.89 — 205 ratings — published 2016
Secret Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Best Hidden Travel Gems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nonfiction-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 192 ratings — published 2011
