5 Best art design books like Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

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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…

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1. 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 Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
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2. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

By: Betty Edwards

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Betty Edwards's The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
"Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their conno…"

-Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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3. Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

By: Ted Orland , David Bayles

3.87

Format: 237 pages,

"This is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made… read more

Similar categories in Ted Orland's Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • nonfiction
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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

Similar categories in Carlos Fuentes's The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
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5. Wall and Piece

By: Banksy

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridg… read more

Similar categories in Banksy's Wall and Piece book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
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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
  • history
  • nonfiction

7. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

By: Austin Kleon

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

You don't need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That's the message from Austin Kleon, … read more

Similar categories in Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • nonfiction

8. 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

Similar categories in John Berger's Ways of Seeing book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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9. 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

Similar categories in Leonardo da Vinci's Leonardo's Notebooks book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history

10. 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

Similar categories in Victoria Finlay's Color: A Natural History of the Palette book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction

11. 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

Similar categories in Ingo F. Walther's Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
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12. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology

13. 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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14. 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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15. Girl with a Pearl Earring

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the … read more

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16. 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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17. 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

Similar categories in Susan Sontag's On Photography book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"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

18. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

By: Hayden Herrera

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hailed by readers and critics across the country, this engrossing biography of Mexican painter Frid… read more

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19. The Artist's Way Every Day: A Year of Creative Living

By: Julia Cameron

4.02

Format: 360 pages,

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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. 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

Similar categories in Steven Naifeh's Van Gogh: The Life book and Sarah Thornton's Seven Days in the Art World

  • 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

8 best-selling history books like Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

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Art Through the Ages

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

3.85

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History of Beauty

Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen , None

4.33

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Leonardo's Notebooks

Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh

4.31

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

4.14

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6 Best nonfiction books like Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Edmund de Waal

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

Gilles Néret

4.18

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Faeries

Brian Froud , Alan Lee

0.00

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

3.24

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