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Popular Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by John Berger (shelved 421 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 53,789 ratings — published 1972
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by Banksy (shelved 416 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,817 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (shelved 378 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,653 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by Betty Edwards (shelved 364 times as art)
avg rating 3.90 — 67,498 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by Phaidon Press (shelved 314 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 49,510 ratings — published 1994
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) (shelved 297 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 277,792 ratings — published 1999
Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
by David Bayles (shelved 245 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 33,474 ratings — published 1993
The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by M.C. Escher (shelved 239 times as art)
avg rating 4.04 — 26,461 ratings — published 1960
Seven Days in the Art World (Hardcover)
by Sarah Thornton (shelved 190 times as art)
avg rating 3.58 — 29,305 ratings — published 2008
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by Wassily Kandinsky (shelved 185 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,799 ratings — published 1911
Faeries (Hardcover)
by Brian Froud (shelved 185 times as art)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,708 ratings — published 1980
PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)
by Frank Warren (shelved 177 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 48,220 ratings — published 2005
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by Vincent van Gogh (shelved 170 times as art)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,853 ratings — published 1963
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by Scott McCloud (shelved 166 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 46,393 ratings — published 1993
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by Victoria Finlay (shelved 165 times as art)
avg rating 3.80 — 30,854 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 — 34,614 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 — 22,615 ratings — published 1995
History Of Art
by H.W. Janson (shelved 143 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,485 ratings — published 1962
Amphigorey (Paperback)
by Edward Gorey (shelved 141 times as art)
avg rating 4.33 — 21,214 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by Susan Sontag (shelved 139 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 17,300 ratings — published 1973
Good Faeries Bad Faeries (Hardcover)
by Brian Froud (shelved 139 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 23,748 ratings — published 1998
Griffin and Sabine (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #1)
by Nick Bantock (shelved 139 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,679 ratings — published 1991
The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)
by Edward Gorey (shelved 137 times as art)
avg rating 4.42 — 30,430 ratings — published 1963
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature (Hardcover)
by Andy Goldsworthy (shelved 136 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,679 ratings — published 1990
An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers (Paperback)
by Danny Gregory (Goodreads Author) (shelved 136 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,110 ratings — published 2008
An Object of Beauty (Hardcover)
by Steve Martin (shelved 135 times as art)
avg rating 3.47 — 52,002 ratings — published 2010
Sabine's Notebook (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #2)
by Nick Bantock (shelved 134 times as art)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,238 ratings — published 1992
History of Beauty (Hardcover)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 133 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 24,320 ratings — published 2004
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Paperback)
by Irving Stone (shelved 132 times as art)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,181 ratings — published 1961
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by Patti Smith (shelved 131 times as art)
avg rating 4.14 — 76,223 ratings — published 2010
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by Helen Gardner (shelved 129 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,939 ratings — published 1926
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by Robert Hughes (shelved 127 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 12,443 ratings — published 1981
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by Andy Warhol (shelved 127 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,784 ratings — published 1975
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 120 times as art)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,079,396 ratings — published 2003
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by Hayden Herrera (shelved 118 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 36,837 ratings — published 1983
The Lost Painting (Paperback)
by Jonathan Harr (shelved 116 times as art)
avg rating 3.64 — 12,764 ratings — published 2005
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by Leonardo da Vinci (shelved 115 times as art)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,776 ratings — published 1950
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by Ross King (shelved 114 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 15,773 ratings — published 2000
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by Ross King (shelved 114 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,098 ratings — published 2003
The Golden Mean (Griffin & Sabine Trilogy #3)
by Nick Bantock (shelved 111 times as art)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,069 ratings — published 1993
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by Robert Henri (shelved 107 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,121 ratings — published 1929
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss (Hardcover)
by Dr. Seuss (shelved 105 times as art)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,376 ratings — published 1995
Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918 (Paperback)
by Gilles Néret (shelved 105 times as art)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,303 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 — 6,011 ratings — published 2006
The Dot (Hardcover)
by Peter H. Reynolds (shelved 101 times as art)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,081 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 — 7,438 ratings — published 2005
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by Giorgio Vasari (shelved 97 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,648 ratings — published 1550
Gnomes (Hardcover)
by Wil Huygen (shelved 96 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 15,831 ratings — published 1976
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book (Hardcover)
by Terry Jones (shelved 94 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,542 ratings — published 1994
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by Umberto Eco (shelved 94 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,374 ratings — published 2007
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso
― Pablo Picasso
“And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
― Lady Gaga
― Lady Gaga
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