18 books
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10 voters
Visual Arts Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 450,764 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 476,197 ratings — published 1950
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,865 ratings — published 1973
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,772 ratings — published 1980
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,299 ratings — published 1933
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 386,092 ratings — published 1979
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,241 ratings — published 1943
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,073 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 237,597 ratings — published 2005
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,346 ratings — published 1912
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,132 ratings — published 2001
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,583 ratings — published 2009
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 347,953 ratings — published 2012
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,662 ratings — published 2010
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,147 ratings — published 1936
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 207,431 ratings — published 2006
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,378 ratings — published 1983
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 107,576 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,889 ratings — published 1995
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,999 ratings — published 1954
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,118 ratings — published 2003
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,776 ratings — published 1964
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,544 ratings — published 2004
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,206 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,624 ratings — published 2020
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,043 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,098 ratings — published 1994
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,659 ratings — published 2013
How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,217 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,274 ratings — published 1996
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,596 ratings — published 1550
Amphigorey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,498 ratings — published 1972
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,037 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,210 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,258 ratings — published 1992
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 114,386 ratings — published 1914
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,190 ratings — published 1960
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,949 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,306 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,859 ratings — published 1985
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,004 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,099 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,656 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,309 ratings — published 1985
Street Photography Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,006 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,214 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,183 ratings — published 1964
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 704 ratings — published 1568
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,136 ratings — published 2007
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 287 ratings — published 2001










