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…
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1. 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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"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
2. Art Through the Ages
By: Fred S. Kleiner , Helen Gardner , Christin J. Mamiya
3.85
Format: 1150 pages, Hardcover
The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has serve… read more
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3. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
By: Andrew Loomis
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing… read more
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- art
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- nonfiction
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"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself."-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, "I like it better my way."-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained…"-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old cou…"-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
4. History of Beauty
By: Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen , None
4.33
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
Now in paperback, Umberto Eco's groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- philosophy
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- design
6. 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
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- art design
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- design
7. Interaction of Color
By: Josef Albers , Nicholas Fox Weber
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Josef Albers's Interaction of Coloris a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as… read more
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8. The Art Forger
By: B.A. Shapiro
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more
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9. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
By: Victoria Finlay
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saff… read more
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10. Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
By: Ingo F. Walther , Rainer Metzger
3.71
Format: 412 pages, Paperback
Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more
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11. M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
By: M.C. Escher , Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer
4.06
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Presenting the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature M.C. Escher was born in 1… read more
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12. The Lives of the Artists
By: Peter Bondanella , Giorgio Vasari , None
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's coll… read more
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13. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
By: Scott McCloud
4.75
Format: 2112 pages, Paperback
The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more
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14. History of Art
By: H.W. Janson , Anthony F. Janson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
For 1000s of art lovers both amateur & professional, esthetic life began with Janson, as his Histor… read more
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15. The Story of Art
By: E.H. Gombrich
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art his… read more
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16. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
By: Austin Kleon
4.75
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
In his New York Timesbestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock the… read more
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17. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
By: Robert Henri , None , None
1.75
Format: 134 pages,
In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert … read more
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18. The Art Book
By: Phaidon Press
3.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art h… read more
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19. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
20. Memory Piece
By: Lisa Ko
3.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more
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"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece
21. Consent: A Memoir
By: Jill Ciment
3.96
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more
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