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Popular Art Books
Popular Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by John Berger (shelved 421 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 54,432 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by Banksy (shelved 419 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,326 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (shelved 381 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 50,864 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by Betty Edwards (shelved 367 times as art)
avg rating 3.90 — 68,116 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by Phaidon Press (shelved 314 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 49,973 ratings — published 1994
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) (shelved 301 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 279,187 ratings — published 1999
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles (shelved 247 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 33,747 ratings — published 1993
The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by M.C. Escher (shelved 240 times as art)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,607 ratings — published 1960
Seven Days in the Art World (Hardcover)
by Sarah Thornton (shelved 191 times as art)
avg rating 3.58 — 29,500 ratings — published 2008
Faeries (Hardcover)
by Brian Froud (shelved 186 times as art)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,955 ratings — published 1980
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by Wassily Kandinsky (shelved 185 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,960 ratings — published 1911
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)
by Frank Warren (shelved 177 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,502 ratings — published 2005
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by Vincent van Gogh (shelved 171 times as art)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,091 ratings — published 1963
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by Scott McCloud (shelved 168 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 46,739 ratings — published 1993
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by Victoria Finlay (shelved 165 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 31,076 ratings — published 2003
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author) (shelved 162 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 35,156 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by Frida Kahlo (shelved 148 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,770 ratings — published 1995
History Of Art
by H.W. Janson (shelved 144 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,659 ratings — published 1962
Amphigorey (Paperback)
by Edward Gorey (shelved 141 times as art)
avg rating 4.33 — 21,339 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by Susan Sontag (shelved 139 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,397 ratings — published 1973
Good Faeries Bad Faeries (Hardcover)
by Brian Froud (shelved 139 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 23,921 ratings — published 1998
Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #1)
by Nick Bantock (shelved 139 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,782 ratings — published 1991
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)
by Edward Gorey (shelved 137 times as art)
avg rating 4.41 — 30,614 ratings — published 1963
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers (Paperback)
by Danny Gregory (Goodreads Author) (shelved 137 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 16,255 ratings — published 2008
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature (Hardcover)
by Andy Goldsworthy (shelved 136 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,792 ratings — published 1990
An Object of Beauty (Hardcover)
by Steve Martin (shelved 135 times as art)
avg rating 3.47 — 52,269 ratings — published 2010
Sabine's Notebook (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #2)
by Nick Bantock (shelved 134 times as art)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,249 ratings — published 1992
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Paperback)
by Irving Stone (shelved 133 times as art)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,454 ratings — published 1961
History of Beauty (Hardcover)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 133 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,576 ratings — published 2004
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by Patti Smith (shelved 131 times as art)
avg rating 4.14 — 76,755 ratings — published 2010
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by Helen Gardner (shelved 130 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,039 ratings — published 1926
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by Robert Hughes (shelved 129 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,772 ratings — published 1981
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by Andy Warhol (shelved 128 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,939 ratings — published 1975
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 122 times as art)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,082,968 ratings — published 2003
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by Hayden Herrera (shelved 118 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 37,143 ratings — published 1983
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by Leonardo da Vinci (shelved 116 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,913 ratings — published 1950
The Lost Painting (Paperback)
by Jonathan Harr (shelved 116 times as art)
avg rating 3.65 — 12,813 ratings — published 2005
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by Ross King (shelved 114 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 15,842 ratings — published 2000
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by Ross King (shelved 114 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,157 ratings — published 2003
The Golden Mean (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #3)
by Nick Bantock (shelved 111 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,082 ratings — published 1993
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by Robert Henri (shelved 107 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,170 ratings — published 1929
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss (Hardcover)
by Dr. Seuss (shelved 105 times as art)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,441 ratings — published 1995
Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 (Paperback)
by Gilles Néret (shelved 105 times as art)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,344 ratings — published 2000
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by Ross King (shelved 103 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,038 ratings — published 2006
The Dot (Hardcover)
by Peter H. Reynolds (shelved 101 times as art)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,151 ratings — published 2003
The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are (Paperback)
by Danny Gregory (Goodreads Author) (shelved 100 times as art)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,497 ratings — published 2005
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by Giorgio Vasari (shelved 99 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,700 ratings — published 1550
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 97 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,448 ratings — published 2007
Gnomes (Hardcover)
by Wil Huygen (shelved 97 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,906 ratings — published 1976
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (Hardcover)
by Terry Jones (shelved 94 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,570 ratings — published 1994
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso
― Pablo Picasso
“Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
― Groucho Marx
― Groucho Marx
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