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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 436,676 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,846 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 463,857 ratings — published 1950
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,791 ratings — published 1980
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,467 ratings — published 1933
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 380,503 ratings — published 1979
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,395 ratings — published 1943
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,903 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,683 ratings — published 2005
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,864 ratings — published 1912
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,072 ratings — published 2001
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,521 ratings — published 2009
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 337,750 ratings — published 2012
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,390 ratings — published 2010
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,565 ratings — published 1936
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,339 ratings — published 1983
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 104,594 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,013 ratings — published 1995
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,160 ratings — published 1954
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,447 ratings — published 2003
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,775 ratings — published 1964
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,874 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,363 ratings — published 2020
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,973 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,899 ratings — published 1994
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,517 ratings — published 2006
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,588 ratings — published 2013
How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,199 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,270 ratings — published 1996
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,187 ratings — published 1550
Amphigorey (Amphigorey, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 62,925 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,177 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,403 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,025 ratings — published 1992
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 111,549 ratings — published 1914
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,928 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,251 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,673 ratings — published 1985
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,994 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,048 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,588 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,283 ratings — published 1985
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,518 ratings — published 2004
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,695 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,574 ratings — published 1964
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 691 ratings — published 1568
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 272 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 269 ratings — published 2012
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,189 ratings — published 2012
A Life of Picasso, Vol. 2: The Painter of Modern Life, 1907-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.42 — 351 ratings — published 1996
“[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the white
heterosexual male artist.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
heterosexual male artist.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies







