Fine Art


Ways of Seeing
Leonardo da Vinci
The Story of Art
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
The Art Spirit
History of Art
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
Atlas Maior
Anatomy for the Artist
Wall and Piece
Leonardo's Notebooks
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
J.W. Waterhouse
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantFake Like Me by Barbara BourlandLust for Life by Irving Stone
Fiction about Art
27 books — 9 voters
The Late Hector Kipling by David ThewlisWhy Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda NochlinMeaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin PanofskyThe Modern Art Cookbook by Mary Ann CawsBelieving Is Seeing by Mary Anne Staniszewski
Wonderful reads for Art lovers
45 books — 1 voter

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett JohnsonBrown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.The Art Lesson by Tomie dePaolaPat the Bunny by Dorothy KunhardtThe Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle
Art-Related Books for Children
198 books — 8 voters
Performance Art by Roselee GoldbergBody Art and Performance by Lea VergineKurt Johannessen  by Kurt JohannessenThe Complete Lunch Box by Tim RuttenberPaul Mccarthy by Lisa  Phillips
Performance Art
9 books — 3 voters

What Comes After Farce by Hal FosterPotential History by Ariella Aïsha AzoulayWhat Art Is by Arthur C. DantoWhat Is Art? by Leo TolstoyThe Geometry of the Last Supper by Raphaël Mouterde
Art Philosophy Books
97 books — 6 voters
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher by Bruno ErnstEdvard Munch by Ulrich BischoffErotica 19th Century  by Gilles NéretErotica 17th-18th Century by Gilles NéretDiseño del siglo XX by Charlotte Fiell
Taschen Books
29 books — 5 voters

Tonia Shimin
…as long as we seek to understand and express the value and significance of human experience as such, there will be a place for artists such as Shimin.”   Sam Ben-Meir
Tonia Shimin, The Art of Symeon Shimin

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Julian Stallabrass, Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction

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Artists Who Read This group is for artists who also love to read as a break from creating their art.
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