If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Ish (Creatrilogy)
By: Peter H. Reynolds
4.39
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in th… read more
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- art
2. Up in the Old Hotel
By: David Remnick , Joseph Mitchell
4.32
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
Saloon-keepers and street preachers, gypsies and steel-walking Mohawks, a bearded lady and a 93-yea… read more
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- nonfiction
- journalism
- history
- essays
"Mazie became interested in Catholicism in the winter of 1920. A drug addict on Mulberry Street, a prostitute with two small daughters, came to her cage one night and asked for help. The woman said he…"-David Remnick, Up in the Old Hotel
3. What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
By: Will Gompertz
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humorEvery year, millions of… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
"It is Duchamp who is to blame for the whole “is it art?"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Picasso is said to have once mused that it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child."-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"We'll be fine’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir said assertively. ‘We are good artist; we know that. Remember what Baudelaire said before he died: "Nothing can be done except little by little." That is what we…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Porque no pienso que la cuestion de fondo resida en juzgar si una obra nueva de arte contemporaneo es buena o mala: el tiempo se encargará de eso. es más importante comrpender de qué modo y por qué e…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
4. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
By: Padmasambhava , Robert A.F. Thurman , Karma-glin-pa
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Imagine that as you leave your body at death, you hear the voice of a loved one whispering in your … read more
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- nonfiction
"No sane person fears nothingness."-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"But his virtue was a matter of habit only and he had no philosophy"-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Our past thinking has determined our present status, and our present thinking will determine our future status; for man is what man thinks."-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
"Thine own consciousness, not formed into anything, in reality void, and the intellect, shining and blissful, --these two,-- are inseparable. The union of them is the Dharma-Kāya state of Perfect Enli…"-Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead
5. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By: David Foster Wallace
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
6. The Power of Art
By: Simon Schama
4.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosiv… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
7. Keys to Drawing
By: Bert Dodson
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodsonshares his complete drawin… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
Similar categories in Maira Kalman's The Principles of Uncertainty book and Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word
- art
- nonfiction
- essays
Similar categories in Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word book and Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word
- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
- criticism
- essays
- journalism
10. The Shock of the New
By: Robert Hughes
4.33
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. M… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- nonfiction
11. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
By: Henry Miller
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it … read more
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- essays
12. What Is Art?
By: Leo Tolstoy , Aylmer Maude
3.73
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
During the decades of his world fame as sage & preacher as well as author of War & Peace & Anna Kar… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
- essays
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, it is impossible for me to live. And I cannot know that, and consequently it is impossible for me to live,"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"A true work of art is the revelation of a new conception of life arising in the artist's soul, which, when expressed, lights up the path along with humanity progresses"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling th…"-Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
13. About Looking
By: John Berger
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more
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- art
- art history
- nonfiction
- essays
14. Lunch Poems
By: Frank O'Hara
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, F… read more
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15. Stuart Little
By: E.B. White , Garth Williams
3.90
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more
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"Well,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"Very fine law,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"-E.B. White, Stuart Little
16. Charlotte's Web and Other Illustrated Classics
By: E.B. White , Garth Williams , Fred Marcellino
3.33
Format: 140 pages, Leather Bound
For more than half a century, E. B. White's novel Charlotte's Web has charmed readers with its acco… read more
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17. The Trumpet of the Swan
By: E.B. White , Fred Marcellino
4.10
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Generations have grown up with E. B. White's classic novels. One of his best-loved books, The Trump… read more
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"When in love, one must take risks."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
"Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
"Besides, my life is a catastrophe. It's a catastrophe to be without a voice."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
"In almost everyone's life there is one event that changes the whole course of his existence."-E.B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan
18. Here Is New York
By: E.B. White , Barbara Cohen , Roger Angell , None
4.11
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E.B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential l… read more
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19. Little Women
By: Louisa May Alcott , Deanna McFadden , Lucy Corvino
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
While their chaplain father is away in the American Civil War, mother "Marmee" watches the four Mar… read more
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20. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
21. 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
- history
"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
