12 Best art books like The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth M. Clark

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The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

By: None , Kenneth M. Clark

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashion…

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Cover of Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende, Robert Shekter, Panchita Llona

1. Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

By: Isabel Allende , Robert Shekter , Panchita Llona

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Richard Pevear, John      Lee

2. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

Cover of Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E.H. Gombrich

3. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

By: E.H. Gombrich

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever re… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by Ted Orland, David Bayles

4. 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

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien

5. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

One of the most influential works of this century, this is a crucial exposition of existentialist t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Créer, c'est vivre deux fois."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Existence is illusory and it is eternal."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"There is scarcely any passion without struggle."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

"Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."

-Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Cover of Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood

6. Erotism: Death and Sensuality

By: Georges Bataille , Mary Dalwood

4.16

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues the… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality by Lynda Nead

7. The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality

By: Lynda Nead

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the fe… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb

8. M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

By: Peter Robb

4.03

Format: 320 pages,

A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blo… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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10. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris

4.48

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more

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11. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By: Mason Currey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by None, Kenneth M. Clark

12. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

By: None , Kenneth M. Clark

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the art of the Greeks to that of Renoir and Moore, this work surveys the ever-changing fashion… read more

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  • cultural
  • art history
  • art
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • reference

13. What Is Called Thinking?

By: Martin Heidegger , None , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

"For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking?is as important asBeing… read more

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14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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15. 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
  • art history
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"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

16. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

By: Walter Pater

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

'To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' The Re… read more

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17. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley

4.00

Format: 201 pages,

Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more

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18. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

By: William Styron

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true acc… read more

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19. The Technological Society

By: Robert K. Merton , Jacques Ellul

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

."..He goes through one human activity after another and shows how it has been technicized, rendere… read more

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20. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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21. The Practice and Science of Drawing

By: Harold Speed

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Much of the learning to practice as well as to appreciate art is concerned with understanding the b… read more

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22. 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
  • nonfiction
  • reference
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

Cover of The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata

23. The Rainbow

By: Yasunari Kawabata

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters i… read more

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"La profondità dell'essere umano è proporzionale alle esperienze vissute e alla lontananza del tempo in cui il suo animo si immerge."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow

"Un ponte di pietra tra le anime? Meglio allora un arcobaleno." "Sì, è possible che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow

"Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarr…"

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow

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24. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

Cover of Walking on the Ceiling by Aysegül Savas

25. Walking on the Ceiling

By: Aysegül Savas

3.50

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

"[Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation … read more

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  • cultural
"There are many ways of hurting without words. It is silence that shapes us."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"I don't think you should try and teach anyone how to talk about their family," I said. "It's arrogant."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"Stories are reckless things, blind to everything but their own shape. When you tell a story, you set out to leave so much behind."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything asid…"

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

Cover of Agua y jabón by Marta D. Riezu

26. Agua y jabón

By: Marta D. Riezu

3.78

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Preguntaron a Cecil Beaton: ¿qué es la elegancia? Y respondió: agua y jabón. Que es lo mismo que de… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Hay un tipo de persona terca, libre y con empuje para apartarse del discurso ortodoxo de su gremio. Ni siquiera se da cuenta, no funciona a la contra, solo hace lo que le da la gana y cree en ello ci…"

-Marta D. Riezu, Agua y jabón

Cover of Casi: Una crónica del desamparo by Jorge Bustos

27. Casi: Una crónica del desamparo

By: Jorge Bustos

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Rest and Be Thankful by Emma Glass

28. Rest and Be Thankful

By: Emma Glass

3.52

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Laura is a nurse in a paediatric unit. On long, quiet shifts, she and her colleagues, clad in their… read more

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"Toxicity drips out of him and I'll pour more into him."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"We are tethered. We share the same headache. We share the same wake. We stand in stillness. We stand in agony."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I don't need half-love, half-life, half is not enough. I can be whole with nothing. I came from nothing. I came from nowhere."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

"I will miss the lick you give your lips before you speak but I won't miss the words that follow and fall out of that wry wet mouth."

-Emma Glass, Rest and Be Thankful

Cover of Gente que ríe by Laura Chivite

29. Gente que ríe

By: Laura Chivite

3.93

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

« Seguimos hablando un rato y en un momento me pareció que se le caían un par de lágrimas. Me fijé … read more

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Cover of Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits by Frances Borzello

30. Seeing Ourselves: Women's Self-Portraits

By: Frances Borzello

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Looks at the ways women artists have chosen to picture themselves throughout history read more

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  • cultural
  • art history
  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of The Naked Nude by Frances Borzello

31. The Naked Nude

By: Frances Borzello

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Nudes that deliberately behave provocatively and pose awkward how artists portray the body in cont… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction

7 best-selling history books like The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth M. Clark

Transform Your Habits

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

E.H. Gombrich

3.11

Transform Your Habits

The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity, and Sexuality

Lynda Nead

3.60

Transform Your Habits

M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio

Peter Robb

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

None , Kenneth M. Clark

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11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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