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Visual Arts Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 439,718 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,300 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 466,433 ratings — published 1950
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,216 ratings — published 1980
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,990 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 — 381,325 ratings — published 1979
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,498 ratings — published 1943
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,366 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,045 ratings — published 2005
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,141 ratings — published 1912
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,093 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 — 8,533 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 — 339,895 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 — 19,609 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 — 24,719 ratings — published 1936
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 203,798 ratings — published 2006
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,353 ratings — published 1983
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 105,291 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,152 ratings — published 1995
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,290 ratings — published 1954
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,951 ratings — published 2003
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,776 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 — 3,953 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,435 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 — 1,985 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,950 ratings — published 1994
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,606 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 — 1,206 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 — 33,273 ratings — published 1550
Amphigorey (Amphigorey, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,035 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 — 120,969 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,523 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,091 ratings — published 1992
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,203 ratings — published 1914
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,937 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,265 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,712 ratings — published 1985
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,997 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,066 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,602 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,292 ratings — published 1985
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,524 ratings — published 2004
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,032 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,747 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 — 693 ratings — published 1568
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 277 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 275 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 — 14,305 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 — 352 ratings — published 1996
“We create art, and those artworks shape us into what we are. We, as human beings, are capable of creating art. Or, perhaps, because of these arts, we have the capacity to become humans humanely.”
― Art Adventure: Visual Arts
― Art Adventure: Visual Arts
“No camera can capture, what your eyes capture.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words











