I Paint What I Want to See
By: Philip Guston
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twenti…
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1. Design as Art
By: Patrick Creagh , Bruno Munari
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an il… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
- essays
2. The Mezzanine
By: Nicholson Baker
4.35
Format: None pages,
Although most of the action of The Mezzanineoccurs on the escalator of an office building, where it… read more
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- classics
3. The Decay of the Angel
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, 'The Decay of the Angel' brings together the domina… read more
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- classics
4. A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
By: Martin Gayford , David Hockney
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a coll… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
5. Ways of Curating
By: Hans Ulrich Obrist
3.37
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Sin… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
6. Chroma
By: Derek Jarman
4.06
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Chroma is a meditation on the color spectrum by the celebrated late artist and filmmaker Derek Jarm… read more
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7. Notes on ‘Camp’
By: Susan Sontag
3.97
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.' These two classic essays were the f… read more
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- art
- classics
- nonfiction
- essays
"Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion."-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…"-Susan Sontag, Notes on ‘Camp’
8. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
9. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.60
Format: 5 pages, ebook
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
10. I Paint What I Want to See
By: Philip Guston
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twenti… read more
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- classics
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
- essays
- modern classics
11. The Beauty of Everyday Things
By: Soetsu Yanagi
3.52
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace sett… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
- essays
"Disreputable and heinous acts are often carried out in the name of the nation. Nations do not always abide by the truth; instead truth is manipulated and distorted."-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"These days, personal taste has suffered a decline. Colours have become garish, forms flimsy, and designs hideous. It is only natural that surrounded by such objects, our sense of beauty should be dul…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"Under the snow's reflected light creeping into the houses, beneath the dim lamplight, various types of manual work is taken up. This is how time is forgotten; this is how work absorbs the hours and d…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
"What is the proper way of seeing? In brief, it is to see things as they are. However, very few people possess this purity of sight. That is, such people are not seeing things as they are, but are inf…"-Soetsu Yanagi, The Beauty of Everyday Things
12. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
By: Olivia Laing
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in th… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
"Empathy is not something that happens to us when we read Dickens. It’s work. What art does is provide material with which to think: new registers, new spaces. After that, friend, it’s up to you."-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"The Argonauts is about these small, miraculous domestic dramas, and the acts of readjustment and care that they require, but it is also a reconsideration of what the institutions established around s…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"Fiction can do that: can make a space for reflecting, for generating novel ways of responding and reacting to lies and guns and walls alike. The mere act of cracking open a book, Smith thinks, is cre…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
"These narratives are interesting in and of themselves, but Nelson isn’t just airing her feelings out. She’s bent on using these experiences as ways of prying the culture open, of investigating what i…"-Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
13. Love Me Tender
By: Constance Debré
3.87
Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition
« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more
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"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender
14. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
15. Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Hardcover
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey
16. The Death of Francis Bacon
By: Max Porter
3.14
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Madrid. Unfinished. Man dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed, synapses firing, writhing a… read more
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- art
17. What Artists Wear
By: Charlie Porter
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and richly illustrated journey through the clothes worn by artists, and what they re… read more
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- art
- art design
- nonfiction
- design
- essays
18. Spring Cannot Be Cancelled
By: David Hockney
4.47
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
David Hockney reflects upon life and art as he experiences lockdown in rural Normandy in this inspi… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Self-Portrait
By: Celia Paul
4.09
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"Decidí usar palabras en vez de cuadros porque las palabras son más directas para comunicarnos. El lenguaje hermético de la pintura guarda necesariamente su secreto, y su poder permanece en el misteri…"-Celia Paul, Self-Portrait
20. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston
By: Ross Feld
4.01
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
In the years following his controversial 1970 exhibition at the Marlborough Galleries, Philip Gusto… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Guston tacked toward celebrating the crap of life not for its own ironic sake, but as the ever-present still life that surrounds the embarrassingly, even tragically human. No Duchampian object is eve…"-Ross Feld, Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston
21. Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object
By: Philippa Snow
4.18
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
We know that celebrities can make great think of the work of Richard Phillips, who has painted an … read more
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