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…
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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
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"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)
2. 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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- history
- psychology
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3. 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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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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5. 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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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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7. Imagine: How Creativity Works
By: Jonah Lehrer
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetin… read more
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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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9. 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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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
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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
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12. The Agony and the Ecstasy
By: Irving Stone , None
4.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special … read more
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13. About Looking
By: John Berger
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence an… read more
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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"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
21. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
By: Ross King
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelange… read more
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