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Art Books
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Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3199 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,615 ratings — published 1972
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2699 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 464,589 ratings — published 1950
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 1947 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 338,379 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 1871 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 380,790 ratings — published 1979
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1573 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 120,386 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 1380 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 104,801 ratings — published 1994
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 1219 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,797 ratings — published 2005
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 1199 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 782,148 ratings — published 1999
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 1189 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 167,459 ratings — published 1997
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 1079 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 111,717 ratings — published 1914
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 1038 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,931 ratings — published 1912
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 926 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,446 ratings — published 2010
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 896 times as art)
avg rating 3.61 — 71,493 ratings — published 2008
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 879 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,043,836 ratings — published 2013
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 849 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,969 ratings — published 1973
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 834 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 85,099 ratings — published 2023
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 818 times as art)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,733 ratings — published 2004
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 812 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 97,095 ratings — published 2023
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 810 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 118,988 ratings — published 2002
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 798 times as art)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,460 ratings — published 1971
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 790 times as art)
avg rating 4.18 — 129,400 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 774 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,054 ratings — published 1995
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 773 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,050 ratings — published 1993
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 738 times as art)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,447 ratings — published 1988
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 738 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,790 ratings — published 2016
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 719 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,445 ratings — published 1926
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 683 times as art)
avg rating 3.79 — 72,886 ratings — published 2003
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 681 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,216 ratings — published 2012
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 681 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 355,817 ratings — published 2010
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 676 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 72,189 ratings — published 1954
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 663 times as art)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,430 ratings — published 1943
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 657 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 61,554 ratings — published 2014
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 643 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,769 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 623 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,164 ratings — published 1929
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 590 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 97,033 ratings — published 1961
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 573 times as art)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,740 ratings — published 1980
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 561 times as art)
avg rating 3.76 — 94,489 ratings — published 2012
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 558 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 53,564 ratings — published 1519
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 529 times as art)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,361 ratings — published 2022
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 510 times as art)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,372 ratings — published 2011
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 508 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,599 ratings — published 1936
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 507 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,199 ratings — published 1550
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,897 ratings — published 1980
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 496 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,720 ratings — published 2016
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 492 times as art)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,117 ratings — published 2018
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,171 ratings — published 2002
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,109 ratings — published 2007
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 468 times as art)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,615 ratings — published 1933
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 467 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,767 ratings — published 2006
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 464 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 26,276 ratings — published 2023
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