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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 460,858 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,654 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 485,463 ratings — published 1950
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,955 ratings — published 1980
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,450 ratings — published 1933
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 391,666 ratings — published 1979
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,741 ratings — published 1943
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 135,674 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 241,003 ratings — published 2005
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 97,346 ratings — published 1912
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,595 ratings — published 1954
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,214 ratings — published 2001
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,256 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 3.97 — 355,911 ratings — published 2012
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 23,573 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 — 26,709 ratings — published 1936
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 209,870 ratings — published 2006
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,400 ratings — published 1983
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.78 — 111,784 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,890 ratings — published 1995
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,867 ratings — published 2003
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,800 ratings — published 1964
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,557 ratings — published 2004
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 — 4,363 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,019 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 — 2,101 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,232 ratings — published 1994
How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.56 — 1,270 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,283 ratings — published 1996
Amphigorey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,687 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 127,507 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,973 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,697 ratings — published 1992
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 118,143 ratings — published 1914
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,481 ratings — published 1960
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,981 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,428 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,372 ratings — published 1985
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,021 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,161 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.22 — 7,023 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,333 ratings — published 1985
Street Photography Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,011 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 24,372 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,491 ratings — published 1964
How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.71 — 846 ratings — published 2015
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 717 ratings — published 1568
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,157 ratings — published 2007
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 289 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 285 ratings — published 2012
“[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
“No camera can capture, what your eyes capture.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
