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Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3109 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 427,987 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2672 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 456,477 ratings — published 1950
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1928 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 331,223 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1855 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 376,872 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1529 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 118,405 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1360 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 102,696 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1213 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 234,406 ratings — published 2005
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1185 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 775,086 ratings — published 1999
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1171 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 166,006 ratings — published 1997
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1068 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 109,770 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1026 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,993 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 905 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,533 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 882 times as art)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,585 ratings — published 2008
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 874 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,025,533 ratings — published 2013
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 837 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,667 ratings — published 1973
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 805 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,734 ratings — published 2004
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 798 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 116,339 ratings — published 2002
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 795 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 76,748 ratings — published 2023
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 786 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,734 ratings — published 1971
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 775 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,840 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 763 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 49,365 ratings — published 1995
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 763 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,676 ratings — published 1993
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 739 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 84,278 ratings — published 2023
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 729 times as art)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,500 ratings — published 1988
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 718 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,663 ratings — published 2016
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 713 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,851 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 682 times as art)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,286 ratings — published 2003
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 677 times as art)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,547 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 671 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 343,425 ratings — published 2010
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 669 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,679 ratings — published 1954
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 654 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,127 ratings — published 2014
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 646 times as art)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,799 ratings — published 1943
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 631 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 39,096 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 611 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 26,426 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 578 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,390 ratings — published 1961
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 574 times as art)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,340 ratings — published 1980
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 555 times as art)
avg rating 3.76 — 92,991 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 550 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 52,862 ratings — published 1519
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,063 ratings — published 1980
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 501 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,651 ratings — published 2011
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 497 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,940 ratings — published 1550
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,193 ratings — published 1936
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 492 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,933 ratings — published 2016
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,854 ratings — published 2002
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 486 times as art)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,860 ratings — published 2018
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 480 times as art)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,994 ratings — published 2022
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 463 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,725 ratings — published 2006
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 462 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,056 ratings — published 2007
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 460 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,405 ratings — published 1975
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,477 ratings — published 1933
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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