The Lives of the Artists
Giorgio Vasari
1991 · 2020 edition
446 pages
The most popular visual art books
Visual art books are about painting, drawing and sculpture. Explore the great artists and movements, from cave walls to contemporary galleries, in histories, monographs and exhibition catalogues. Many of these books are objects of beauty themselves, made to be looked at slowly.
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Ignore Everybody
Hugh MacLeod
Published 2009
159 pages
The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity
David Graeber, David Wengrow
2021 · 2023 edition
720 pages
Brunelleschi's Dome The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence
Ross King
2000 · 2008 edition
192 pages
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss
Published 1998
288 pages
Not My Father's Son A Memoir
Alan Cumming
2001 · 2015 edition
304 pages
The Boys A Memoir of Hollywood and Family
Ron Howard, Clint Howard
2021 · 2022 edition
416 pages
From the Ashes My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Jesse Thistle
2019 · 2021 edition
368 pages
An Illustrated Life Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers
Danny Gregory
Published 2008
272 pages
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Published 2021
624 pages
Figure Drawing
Andrew Loomis
1971 · 2011 edition
208 pages
Dali
Robert Descharnes
1984 · 1993 edition
175 pages
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Walter Benjamin
2008 · 2011 edition
320 pages
The Zen of Seeing
Frederick Franck
Published 1973
162 pages
How to Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-world Problems
Randall Munroe
Published 2019
320 pages
Klimt
Gilles Néret
Published 1999
96 pages
Palestine
Joe Sacco
1994 · 2024 edition
300 pages
Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
2003 · 2004 edition
448 pages
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 Generally, and on Appreciation
Robert Henri, Margery Ryerson
Published 1984
284 pages
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
2005 · 2017 edition
211 pages
Do the Work
Steven Pressfield
Published 2011
112 pages
Color and Light A Guide for the Realist Painter
James Gurney
Published 2010
224 pages
I Wrote This for You
Iain S. Thomas
2011 · 2018 edition
216 pages
The Lonely City
Olivia Laing
2016 · 2017 edition
315 pages