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Visual Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.94 — 435,543 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 462,978 ratings — published 1950
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 380,094 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.86 — 167,184 ratings — published 1997
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,345 ratings — published 1971
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,708 ratings — published 1993
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,910 ratings — published 1991
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,268 ratings — published 2003
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,707 ratings — published 1980
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,329 ratings — published 1943
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,362 ratings — published 2008
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,513 ratings — published 2005
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,664 ratings — published 1985
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,128 ratings — published 1960
Une Semaine de Bonté (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,801 ratings — published 1934
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,668 ratings — published 1962
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,717 ratings — published 1973
The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,468 ratings — published 1997
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 104,330 ratings — published 1994
Diane Arbus: Monograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 18,235 ratings — published 1972
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 48,654 ratings — published 1975
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,730 ratings — published 1873
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.55 — 11 ratings — published 2004
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,990 ratings — published 1954
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,266 ratings — published 1988
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,251 ratings — published 2014
How to Draw What You See (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,947 ratings — published 1972
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,670 ratings — published 1980
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,965 ratings — published 2002
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,542 ratings — published 2016
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,335 ratings — published 1983
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,643 ratings — published 1897
9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.14 — 295 ratings — published 2013
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 202,176 ratings — published 2006
Picasso (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.30 — 630 ratings — published 1991
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,571 ratings — published 2004
Klimt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,001 ratings — published 1992
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,824 ratings — published 1970
About Looking (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,307 ratings — published 1980
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,779 ratings — published 1912
The Natural Way to Draw (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.00 — 63,665 ratings — published 1941
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,572 ratings — published 2006
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,783 ratings — published 2003
What Artists Wear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,548 ratings — published
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.32 — 809 ratings — published 1961
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,988 ratings — published 1961
The Electric State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,431 ratings — published 2017
The Unknown Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,280 ratings — published 1831
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 3.77 — 20,096 ratings — published 2006
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-art)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,595 ratings — published 2016
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“Art appears in its best form when it is brought out from the boundaries of the rules, provided the artist knows the rules very well.”
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“Q: What do you think will be the future of your field?
There’s too much pessimism about the future for political cartooning. I think the future’s very bright. You see more and more sites like Politico that aggressively deploy cartoons on the homepage. I think the media is becoming increasingly visual… and increasingly made to match our shrinking attention spans. The business model for cartooning is going through a rough transition now, but in the long run the thing we cartoonists do—-deliver simple-minded political messages in short easily digestible bites—-is the direction the media in general is heading.
We’re living in a media landscape that seems to get more infantile and politically simple-minded all the time—-look at the huge popularity of Glenn Beck…and I saw someplace recently that Jon Stewart is now the most trusted man in America. The clowns seem to be taking over the circus. This may be bad for governance, but it can only be good news for cartoonists. The interesting part will be what the platforms are going to be, cell phones, iPads, the iChip in my forehead, whatever it is, I’m sure the combination of visual metaphor and incisive humor you find in good cartoons will adapt and evolve and really thrive in the future.
(Interview with Washington City Paper)”
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There’s too much pessimism about the future for political cartooning. I think the future’s very bright. You see more and more sites like Politico that aggressively deploy cartoons on the homepage. I think the media is becoming increasingly visual… and increasingly made to match our shrinking attention spans. The business model for cartooning is going through a rough transition now, but in the long run the thing we cartoonists do—-deliver simple-minded political messages in short easily digestible bites—-is the direction the media in general is heading.
We’re living in a media landscape that seems to get more infantile and politically simple-minded all the time—-look at the huge popularity of Glenn Beck…and I saw someplace recently that Jon Stewart is now the most trusted man in America. The clowns seem to be taking over the circus. This may be bad for governance, but it can only be good news for cartoonists. The interesting part will be what the platforms are going to be, cell phones, iPads, the iChip in my forehead, whatever it is, I’m sure the combination of visual metaphor and incisive humor you find in good cartoons will adapt and evolve and really thrive in the future.
(Interview with Washington City Paper)”
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