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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 479,745 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 454,932 ratings — published 1972
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 350,820 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,775 ratings — published 2002
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 387,819 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 170,043 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 327,430 ratings — published 2000
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,570 ratings — published 2002
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,402 ratings — published 1973
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,924 ratings — published 1988
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 135,622 ratings — published 2017
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 98,728 ratings — published 2023
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 15,300 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 380,548 ratings — published 2010
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 115,187 ratings — published 1914
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,263,128 ratings — published 2008
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,370 ratings — published 1926
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,088,940 ratings — published 1601
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 108,399 ratings — published 1994
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,794 ratings — published 1912
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 155,796 ratings — published 1992
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,325,753 ratings — published 2009
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 108,926 ratings — published 2007
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,867,562 ratings — published 2010
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 69,166 ratings — published 2004
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 238,201 ratings — published 2005
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 49,156 ratings — published 1988
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 51,122 ratings — published 1995
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,433 ratings — published 1980
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,362 ratings — published 2007
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,714 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,591 ratings — published 1993
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 533,839 ratings — published 1968
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,332 ratings — published 1936
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,452 ratings — published 1972
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 32,452 ratings — published 2011
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,097 ratings — published 2007
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,883 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 112,413 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 169,170 ratings — published 2008
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,602 ratings — published 1999
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,019 ratings — published 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 122,479 ratings — published 2023
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,195 ratings — published 2023
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 54,592 ratings — published 1519
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,957 ratings — published 2014
Art as Therapy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,797 ratings — published 2013
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,927 ratings — published 2008
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.93 — 795,919 ratings — published 1999
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 114,886 ratings — published 1994
“A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.”
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“Maybe it's the fact the most of the arts here are produced by world-weary and sophisticated older people and then consumed by younger people who not only consume art but study it for clues on how to be cool, hip - and keep in mind that, for kids and younger people, to be hip and cool is the same as to be admired and accepted and included and so Unalone. Forget so-called peer-pressure. It's more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendant horror is loneliness, excluded encagement in the self. Once we've hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young. The U.S. arts are our guide to inclusion. A how-to. We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age where the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of whatever it wears. And then it's stuck there, the weary cynicism that saves us from gooey sentiment and unsophisticated naivete.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
