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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 455,084 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 479,883 ratings — published 1950
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,431 ratings — published 1973
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,462 ratings — published 1980
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,874 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 — 387,902 ratings — published 1979
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 25,429 ratings — published 1943
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,634 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 238,239 ratings — published 2005
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,825 ratings — published 1912
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 73,192 ratings — published 1954
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,167 ratings — published 2001
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,633 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 — 350,940 ratings — published 2012
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,100 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 — 25,356 ratings — published 1936
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 208,530 ratings — published 2006
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,386 ratings — published 1983
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 108,458 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 51,137 ratings — published 1995
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,458 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 — 3,548 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 — 4,280 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,729 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 — 2,067 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,160 ratings — published 1994
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,674 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 — 1,238 ratings — published 2012
Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,280 ratings — published 1996
Amphigorey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,629 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 — 123,848 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,377 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,368 ratings — published 1992
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 115,227 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 — 6,222 ratings — published 1960
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,959 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,334 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,944 ratings — published 1985
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,009 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,126 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,697 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,322 ratings — published 1985
Street Photography Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,008 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,579 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,330 ratings — published 1964
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 709 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 — 6,151 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 — 288 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 285 ratings — published 2012
“For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.”
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“Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporary viewer they have become a reassuring confirmation of left-of-centre politics, of anti-establishment positions and of an intellectual kudos that doesn’t need art to look classical to be meaningful. And the frankness of the male artist’s unflinchingly libidinal vision is taken as evidence of the separation from restrictive bourgeois respectability and taste.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
