7 Top art design books like Art Through the Ages by Fred S. Kleiner, Helen Gardner, Christin J. Mamiya

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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…

If you liked the art design plot in Art Through the Ages by Fred S. Kleiner, Helen Gardner, Christin J. Mamiya , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

By: James Gurney

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully cr… read more

Similar categories in James Gurney's Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art) book and Fred S. Kleiner's Art Through the Ages

  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
"There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. …"

-James Gurney, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

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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

Similar categories in Fred S. Kleiner's Art Through the Ages book and Fred S. Kleiner's Art Through the Ages

  • architecture
  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • school
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • textbooks
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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
  • reference
"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. 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
  • nonfiction
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6. Leonardo's Notebooks

By: Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international … read more

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

8. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. 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
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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10. 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
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction

11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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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. The Complete Paintings and Drawings

By: Leonardo da Vinci , Frank Zöllner , None

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519… read more

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19. 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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20. 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
  • art history
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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21. Van Gogh: The Life

By: Steven Naifeh

4.18

Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"

-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life

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3.85

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4.33

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Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh

4.31

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Victoria Finlay

4.14

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Edmund de Waal

3.95

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Gilles Néret

4.18

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Brian Froud , Alan Lee

0.00

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John Berger

3.24

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