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Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3303 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 445,447 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2739 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 471,504 ratings — published 1950
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1978 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,174 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1885 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 383,951 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1613 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 122,182 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1408 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,626 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1226 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,926 ratings — published 2005
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1213 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 788,458 ratings — published 1999
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1209 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,707 ratings — published 1997
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1105 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,440 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1063 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,852 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 953 times as art)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,231 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 908 times as art)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,266 ratings — published 2008
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 891 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,062,899 ratings — published 2013
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 880 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 92,060 ratings — published 2023
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 875 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,251 ratings — published 1973
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 866 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 110,163 ratings — published 2023
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 831 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,051 ratings — published 1963
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 830 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,504 ratings — published 2004
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 830 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,474 ratings — published 2002
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 803 times as art)
avg rating 4.17 — 132,542 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 786 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,657 ratings — published 1995
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 781 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,398 ratings — published 1993
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 764 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,754 ratings — published 2016
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as art)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,231 ratings — published 1988
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 731 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,964 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 699 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,456 ratings — published 2003
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 690 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 368,071 ratings — published 2010
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 686 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 14,813 ratings — published 2012
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 685 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,748 ratings — published 1954
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,978 ratings — published 1943
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 662 times as art)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,855 ratings — published 2014
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 643 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,330 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 634 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,827 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 598 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,231 ratings — published 1961
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 582 times as art)
avg rating 3.74 — 37,004 ratings — published 1980
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 568 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,183 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 566 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,050 ratings — published 1519
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 566 times as art)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,673 ratings — published 2022
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 526 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,971 ratings — published 1936
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 523 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,835 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,445 ratings — published 1550
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 513 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,058 ratings — published 1980
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 505 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,525 ratings — published 2016
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 498 times as art)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,352 ratings — published 2018
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,442 ratings — published 2002
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 496 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,859 ratings — published 2023
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 485 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,742 ratings — published 1933
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 471 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,780 ratings — published 2006
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 470 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 49,011 ratings — published 1975
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Eleanor & Park
― Eleanor & Park
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