I Wrote This for You
Iain S. Thomas
2011 · 2018 edition
216 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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The Lonely City
Olivia Laing
2016 · 2017 edition
315 pages
Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton
Published 2015
428 pages
The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn
1988 · 2022 edition
102 pages
On Ugliness
Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen
2007 · 2011 edition
455 pages
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan
2024 · 2025 edition
321 pages
The Power of Art
Simon Schama
Published 2006
448 pages
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus, Doon Arbus, Marvin Israel
1972 · 2011 edition
15 pages
Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton
Published 2013
304 pages
Red Scarf Girl
Ji-li Jiang
1997 · 1999 edition
285 pages
Story
Robert McKee
Published 1997
466 pages
Simulacra and Simulation
Jean Baudrillard
Published 1994
164 pages
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
Grant Snider
Published 2020
125 pages
Marching Powder A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine and South America's Strangest Jail
Thomas McFadden, Rusty Young
2003 · 2013 edition
459 pages
The Art Thief
Michael Finkel
Published 2023
240 pages
Interaction of Color
Joseph Albers
1971 · 2006 edition
160 pages
How to be an Explorer of the World Portable Life Museum
Keri Smith
2008 · 2011 edition
204 pages
Keys to Drawing
Bert Dodson
Published 1985
224 pages
What are You Looking At? 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye
Will Gompertz
2012 · 2016 edition
435 pages
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
Bruno Ernst
1976 · 2008 edition
116 pages
Chuck Klosterman IV A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
Chuck Klosterman
Published 2006
374 pages
Wreck This Journal
Keri Smith
Published 2007
192 pages
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Kind of the Story of My Life
Scott Adams
2013 · 2023 edition
288 pages
The Judgment of Paris The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Ross King
2006 · 2007 edition
448 pages