6 Best reference books like The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair

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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…

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

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

If you liked the reference plot in The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St. Clair , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell by Will Gompertz

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

Similar categories in Will Gompertz's What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell book and Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • historical
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • 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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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
Cover of Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

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

Similar categories in Andrew Loomis's Figure Drawing for All It's Worth book and Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color

  • 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

Cover of The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes, Frida Kahlo, Sarah M. Lowe

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 Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color

  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim

5. Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

By: Rudolf Arnheim

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in 1954, this work has established itself as a unique classic. It appli… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • science
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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
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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
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber

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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  • art
  • art history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
Cover of The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

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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  • art

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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  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science

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 Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color

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

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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  • art
  • art history
  • historical

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. 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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15. 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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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. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

By: Austin Kleon

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In his New York Timesbestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock the… read more

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18. 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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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

Similar categories in Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color book and Kassia St. Clair's The Secret Lives of Color

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • historical
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • essays
  • reference
  • science
"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 Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The official magical companion to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling

21. The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac: The official magical companion to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books

By: J.K. Rowling

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The only official companion to the seven spellbinding novels about the Boy Who Lived, fully illustr… read more

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  • art

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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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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