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Visual Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 430,300 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 458,371 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 377,842 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 166,280 ratings — published 1997
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 14,853 ratings — published 1971
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,821 ratings — published 1993
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,872 ratings — published 1991
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,214 ratings — published 2003
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,179 ratings — published 1980
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,878 ratings — published 1943
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,762 ratings — published 2008
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 234,673 ratings — published 2005
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,559 ratings — published 1985
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,110 ratings — published 1960
Une Semaine de Bonté (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,800 ratings — published 1934
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.78 — 39,147 ratings — published 1962
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,877 ratings — published 1973
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,455 ratings — published 1997
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 103,127 ratings — published 1994
Diane Arbus: Monograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,219 ratings — published 1972
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,505 ratings — published 1975
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,726 ratings — published 1873
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 2004
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,975 ratings — published 1954
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,654 ratings — published 1988
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,354 ratings — published 2014
How to Draw What You See (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,946 ratings — published 1972
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,406 ratings — published 1980
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,811 ratings — published 2002
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,087 ratings — published 2016
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,323 ratings — published 1983
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,604 ratings — published 1897
9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.14 — 294 ratings — published 2013
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 200,421 ratings — published 2006
Picasso (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 626 ratings — published 1991
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,961 ratings — published 2004
Klimt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,820 ratings — published 1992
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,794 ratings — published 1970
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,237 ratings — published 1980
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,128 ratings — published 1912
The Natural Way to Draw (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 63,121 ratings — published 1941
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,543 ratings — published 2006
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,342 ratings — published 2003
What Artists Wear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,505 ratings — published
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.33 — 802 ratings — published 1961
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,984 ratings — published 1961
The Unknown Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,172 ratings — published 1831
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 19,546 ratings — published 2006
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,588 ratings — published 2016
Salvador Dalí: 1904-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,664 ratings — published 1992
“An idea has formed in my mind. At university, I performed pieces where I'd sit on various materials that had long life spans, like plastic, trees, stone, and I gradually glued my skin to them, or else connected myself to the material with clay or plaster and painted the joins to look like the material---the bark of a tree, marble, cement. I wanted to look like I was a part of whatever material I was using and it was a part of me. I think that those works came from a kind of naive and youthful desire to be seen for what I was. For my body to be seen for what it is: this un-decaying, eternal thing---familiarly human, but also not.”
― Woman, Eating
― Woman, Eating
“When visual imagery, the written word… that includes the lyrics in a song… vocalized words, storytelling and music are all combined, its ability to convey ideas & promote thought… is astounding”
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