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Visual Arts Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 424,838 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,158 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 453,780 ratings — published 1950
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,731 ratings — published 1980
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 233,852 ratings — published 2005
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 23,443 ratings — published 1943
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,199 ratings — published 1933
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,202 ratings — published 1993
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 375,386 ratings — published 1979
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,007 ratings — published 2001
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 328,938 ratings — published 2012
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 18,073 ratings — published 2010
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 117,933 ratings — published 2002
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,538 ratings — published 1912
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,043 ratings — published 1995
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 71,368 ratings — published 1954
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,452 ratings — published 2009
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,445 ratings — published 2003
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,768 ratings — published 1964
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 4.11 — 3,578 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,142 ratings — published 2020
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,078 ratings — published 1936
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,765 ratings — published 1994
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 198,912 ratings — published 2006
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,536 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 4.56 — 1,173 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,265 ratings — published 1996
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,826 ratings — published 1550
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,557 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,560 ratings — published 1992
Art Forms in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,661 ratings — published 1904
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,304 ratings — published 1983
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 109,038 ratings — published 1914
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 101,923 ratings — published 1994
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,911 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,203 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,429 ratings — published 1985
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,995 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,528 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,249 ratings — published 1985
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,515 ratings — published 2004
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,246 ratings — published 2016
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 677 ratings — published 1568
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 268 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 266 ratings — published 2012
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,201 ratings — published 2012
A Life of Picasso, Vol. 2: The Painter of Modern Life, 1907-1917 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.40 — 343 ratings — published 1996
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,791 ratings — published 1961
Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.78 — 265 ratings — published 2003
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,834 ratings — published 1991
“The problem is not that erotically charged images
can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they
can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been
as a passive sex object, and not as an artist or creator of
culture herself. This has limited what women have been able
to achieve in a patriarchal society that cannot separate
women’s value and worth from a very fixed idea of their
sexuality.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they
can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been
as a passive sex object, and not as an artist or creator of
culture herself. This has limited what women have been able
to achieve in a patriarchal society that cannot separate
women’s value and worth from a very fixed idea of their
sexuality.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
“I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.”
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