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Visual Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 450,327 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 475,816 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 — 385,891 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 169,351 ratings — published 1997
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,012 ratings — published 1991
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,309 ratings — published 1963
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,808 ratings — published 1973
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,013 ratings — published 1993
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,851 ratings — published 1985
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,354 ratings — published 2003
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,722 ratings — published 1980
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,214 ratings — published 1943
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,616 ratings — published 2008
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,549 ratings — published 2005
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,185 ratings — published 1960
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,149 ratings — published 1980
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,955 ratings — published 2016
Une Semaine de Bonté (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,828 ratings — published 1934
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,596 ratings — published 1962
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,482 ratings — published 1997
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 107,486 ratings — published 1994
Diane Arbus: Monograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,247 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 — 49,165 ratings — published 1975
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,768 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 — 4,027 ratings — published 1954
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,611 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 4.07 — 63,395 ratings — published 2014
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,305 ratings — published 1939
How to Draw What You See (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,950 ratings — published 1972
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,376 ratings — published 1983
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,788 ratings — published 1897
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,625 ratings — published 2010
9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.16 — 296 ratings — published 2013
Picasso (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 634 ratings — published 1991
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,819 ratings — published 2004
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,889 ratings — published 1970
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,494 ratings — published 1980
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,315 ratings — published 1912
Keys to Drawing with Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing Your Creativity (Spiral-bound)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,191 ratings — published 2006
The Natural Way to Draw (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.01 — 64,950 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 — 14,616 ratings — published 2006
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,979 ratings — published 1954
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,686 ratings — published 2003
What Artists Wear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,659 ratings — published
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.31 — 828 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 — 3,010 ratings — published 1961
The Electric State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.33 — 10,054 ratings — published 2017
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.78 — 21,582 ratings — published 2006
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,648 ratings — published 2016
“An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?”
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“Q: What do you think will be the future of your field?
There’s too much pessimism about the future for political cartooning. I think the future’s very bright. You see more and more sites like Politico that aggressively deploy cartoons on the homepage. I think the media is becoming increasingly visual… and increasingly made to match our shrinking attention spans. The business model for cartooning is going through a rough transition now, but in the long run the thing we cartoonists do—-deliver simple-minded political messages in short easily digestible bites—-is the direction the media in general is heading.
We’re living in a media landscape that seems to get more infantile and politically simple-minded all the time—-look at the huge popularity of Glenn Beck…and I saw someplace recently that Jon Stewart is now the most trusted man in America. The clowns seem to be taking over the circus. This may be bad for governance, but it can only be good news for cartoonists. The interesting part will be what the platforms are going to be, cell phones, iPads, the iChip in my forehead, whatever it is, I’m sure the combination of visual metaphor and incisive humor you find in good cartoons will adapt and evolve and really thrive in the future.
(Interview with Washington City Paper)”
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There’s too much pessimism about the future for political cartooning. I think the future’s very bright. You see more and more sites like Politico that aggressively deploy cartoons on the homepage. I think the media is becoming increasingly visual… and increasingly made to match our shrinking attention spans. The business model for cartooning is going through a rough transition now, but in the long run the thing we cartoonists do—-deliver simple-minded political messages in short easily digestible bites—-is the direction the media in general is heading.
We’re living in a media landscape that seems to get more infantile and politically simple-minded all the time—-look at the huge popularity of Glenn Beck…and I saw someplace recently that Jon Stewart is now the most trusted man in America. The clowns seem to be taking over the circus. This may be bad for governance, but it can only be good news for cartoonists. The interesting part will be what the platforms are going to be, cell phones, iPads, the iChip in my forehead, whatever it is, I’m sure the combination of visual metaphor and incisive humor you find in good cartoons will adapt and evolve and really thrive in the future.
(Interview with Washington City Paper)”
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