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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 431,109 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,994 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 459,067 ratings — published 1950
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,285 ratings — published 1980
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,939 ratings — published 1943
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 29,772 ratings — published 1933
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,946 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 234,818 ratings — published 2005
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 378,262 ratings — published 1979
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,031 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 4.11 — 8,485 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 — 333,462 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 4.09 — 18,759 ratings — published 2010
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,225 ratings — published 1912
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 103,307 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 49,525 ratings — published 1995
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,808 ratings — published 1954
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,903 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 4.10 — 3,741 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,245 ratings — published 2020
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,309 ratings — published 1936
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,957 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,830 ratings — published 1994
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 200,661 ratings — published 2006
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,566 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 — 1,184 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,269 ratings — published 1996
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 33,010 ratings — published 1550
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,959 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,958 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,864 ratings — published 1992
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,325 ratings — published 1983
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 110,365 ratings — published 1914
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,918 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,228 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,586 ratings — published 1985
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,018 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,553 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,266 ratings — published 1985
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,519 ratings — published 2004
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,954 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,319 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 — 682 ratings — published 1568
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 271 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 267 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 4.02 — 13,692 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 4.41 — 349 ratings — published 1996
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,025 ratings — published 1961
Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 266 ratings — published 2003
“No camera can capture, what your eyes capture.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“[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






