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Art Books
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![Ways of Seeing](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1703328414l/2784._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 2787 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 375,919 ratings — published 1972
![The Story of Art](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389274650l/222078._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 2353 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 415,704 ratings — published 1950
![The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348133732l/627206._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1712 times as art)
avg rating 3.88 — 355,284 ratings — published 1979
![Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404576602l/13099738._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1711 times as art)
avg rating 3.96 — 291,743 ratings — published 2012
![The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1440952332l/615570._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1354 times as art)
avg rating 3.95 — 111,488 ratings — published 2002
![Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1442712080l/187633._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1231 times as art)
avg rating 3.77 — 91,359 ratings — published 1994
![Wall and Piece](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327904853l/114683._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1175 times as art)
avg rating 3.85 — 226,602 ratings — published 2005
![The Art Book](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1411210646l/567616._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 1120 times as art)
avg rating 3.86 — 157,477 ratings — published 1997
![Girl with a Pearl Earring](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327197580l/2865._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 1105 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 737,269 ratings — published 1999
![The Letters of Vincent van Gogh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1657544597l/395233._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 977 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,455 ratings — published 1914
![Concerning the Spiritual in Art](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405982387l/857502._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 925 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 86,473 ratings — published 1912
![Seven Days in the Art World](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1358748500l/6988014._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 823 times as art)
avg rating 3.62 — 65,626 ratings — published 2008
![The Goldfinch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1378710146l/17333223._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 800 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 926,729 ratings — published 2013
![On Photography](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1671548651l/52372._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 766 times as art)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,833 ratings — published 1973
![History of Beauty](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1386926937l/10505._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 761 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 61,654 ratings — published 2004
![The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1407009131l/91760._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 707 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,375 ratings — published 1995
![The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1574272133l/1319._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 701 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 103,592 ratings — published 2002
![Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328408101l/102920._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 688 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 122,676 ratings — published 1993
![Leonardo da Vinci](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1523543570l/34684622._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 680 times as art)
avg rating 4.20 — 106,521 ratings — published 2017
![Interaction of Color](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328870173l/111113._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 673 times as art)
avg rating 4.06 — 11,201 ratings — published 1971
![Art Through the Ages](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1168391513l/32525._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 655 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 41,540 ratings — published 1926
![Color: A Natural History of the Palette](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1427998243l/19596._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 653 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,595 ratings — published 2003
![The Secret Lives of Color](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1498826320l/34122206._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 632 times as art)
avg rating 4.12 — 14,657 ratings — published 2016
![Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347681065l/203805._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 629 times as art)
avg rating 4.14 — 50,803 ratings — published 1988
![M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388377308l/276287._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 628 times as art)
avg rating 3.94 — 68,265 ratings — published 1954
![Just Kids](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1706691407l/206318521._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 612 times as art)
avg rating 4.21 — 281,409 ratings — published 2010
![What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348756302l/15929764._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 593 times as art)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,859 ratings — published 2012
![History of Art](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1330064588l/2693801._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 586 times as art)
avg rating 3.81 — 35,568 ratings — published 1962
![Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1404580714l/18290401._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 580 times as art)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,483 ratings — published 2014
![Figure Drawing for All It's Worth](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387701635l/147941._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 568 times as art)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,174 ratings — published 1943
![The Shock of the New](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1175649708l/542639._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 559 times as art)
avg rating 3.74 — 34,334 ratings — published 1980
![The Lives of the Artists](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387708111l/233389._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 551 times as art)
avg rating 3.78 — 30,574 ratings — published 1550
![The Art Forger](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348518546l/14568987._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 541 times as art)
avg rating 3.75 — 88,721 ratings — published 2012
![The Art Spirit](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1405666033l/207781._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 539 times as art)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,868 ratings — published 1929
![The Agony and the Ecstasy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327879079l/321552._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 522 times as art)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,565 ratings — published 1958
![Leonardo's Notebooks](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388230805l/24096._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 512 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,007 ratings — published 1519
![Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1532024623l/40090596._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 461 times as art)
avg rating 4.30 — 18,427 ratings — published 2018
![Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312018081l/497164._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 456 times as art)
avg rating 3.99 — 69,557 ratings — published 1980
![Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1700961214l/737957._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 453 times as art)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,017 ratings — published 2002
![The Power of Art](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1385316815l/19797._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 448 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,532 ratings — published 2006
![The Creative Act: A Way of Being](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1663707011l/60965426._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 447 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 32,942 ratings — published 2023
![On Ugliness](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1320443510l/520738._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 435 times as art)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,703 ratings — published 2007
![The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1423704668l/31818._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 432 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 46,395 ratings — published 1975
![The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1450039964l/25667449._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 422 times as art)
avg rating 3.92 — 28,547 ratings — published 2016
![An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration from the Private Sketchbooks of Artists, Illustrators and Designers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1391275504l/3253215._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 415 times as art)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,484 ratings — published 2008
![The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1441521513l/56912._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 410 times as art)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,316 ratings — published 2006
![The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348198131l/2474084._SX50_.jpg)
by (shelved 405 times as art)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,281 ratings — published 1936
![Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1407108642l/91767._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 400 times as art)
avg rating 4.01 — 66,487 ratings — published 1983
![In Praise of Shadows](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409951563l/34473._SY75_.jpg)
by (shelved 392 times as art)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,763 ratings — published 1933
![Albert Einstein](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1429114964i/9810._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
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