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Visual Arts Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 445,553 ratings — published 1972
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,260 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 471,600 ratings — published 1950
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,078 ratings — published 1980
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,748 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 — 383,994 ratings — published 1979
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 24,983 ratings — published 1943
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,411 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,937 ratings — published 2005
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,857 ratings — published 1912
The Animator's Survival Kit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,115 ratings — published 2001
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,559 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 3.96 — 344,253 ratings — published 2012
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,235 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 — 24,976 ratings — published 1936
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 205,908 ratings — published 2006
Towards a Philosophy of Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,364 ratings — published 1983
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 106,641 ratings — published 1994
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,658 ratings — published 1995
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,751 ratings — published 1954
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,645 ratings — published 2003
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,775 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 4.09 — 4,100 ratings — published 2024
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,552 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 — 2,016 ratings — published 2016
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,029 ratings — published 1994
Understanding a Photograph (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,636 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 — 1,211 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 — 33,447 ratings — published 1550
Amphigorey (Amphigorey, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 63,260 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 — 122,205 ratings — published 2002
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,968 ratings — published 1926
Klimt (Basic Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,117 ratings — published 1992
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,447 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 — 6,167 ratings — published 1960
The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,947 ratings — published 1981
Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,290 ratings — published 1939
Keys to Drawing (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.07 — 15,780 ratings — published 1985
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators (Force Drawing Series)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,001 ratings — published 2006
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,083 ratings — published 2010
Drawing the Head and Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,633 ratings — published 1956
Comics and Sequential Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,300 ratings — published 1985
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art)
by (shelved 4 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,534 ratings — published 2004
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,759 ratings — published 2016
Notes on ‘Camp’ (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,981 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 — 698 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 — 281 ratings — published 2001
Cezanne: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as visual-arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 281 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 3.99 — 14,814 ratings — published 2012
“[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the white
heterosexual male artist.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
heterosexual male artist.”
― Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
“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
