7 best-selling design books like Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber

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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…

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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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  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
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  • reference
"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

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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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  • architecture
  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
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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
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
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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

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4. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

By: Carlos Fuentes , Frida Kahlo , Sarah M. Lowe

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

Published here in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten ye… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
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5. 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
  • design
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6. 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
  • nonfiction
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7. 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
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
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8. 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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  • architecture
  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference

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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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction

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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  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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11. Seven Days in the Art World

By: Sarah Thornton

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Timesand The Sunday Times[London]: "An inde… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction

12. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

By: Vincent van Gogh , Mark Roskill , Arnold J. Pomerans , Ronald de Leeuw

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters,The Letters of Vincent va… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson

3.72

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A #1 New York Timesbestseller "A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creat… read more

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16. 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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17. Concerning the Spiritual in Art

By: Wassily Kandinsky

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this … read more

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18. On Photography

By: Susan Sontag

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more

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  • art
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."

-Susan Sontag, On Photography

19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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  • art
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  • art design
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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

13 best-selling nonfiction books like Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber

Transform Your Habits

What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell

Will Gompertz

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Art Through the Ages

Fred S. Kleiner , Helen Gardner , Christin J. Mamiya

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Andrew Loomis

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Carlos Fuentes , Frida Kahlo , Sarah M. Lowe

4.81

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7 Best history books like The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

Transform Your Habits

What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell

Will Gompertz

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Art Through the Ages

Fred S. Kleiner , Helen Gardner , Christin J. Mamiya

3.85

Transform Your Habits

History of Beauty

Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen , None

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Shock of the New

Robert Hughes

4.33

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