Art

Books that showcase particular types of art.

The Bohemians
Leonora in the Morning Light
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020
Everybody: A Book about Freedom
Letters to Camondo
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Kierunek zwiedzania
The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art
Shaped by Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
American Betiya
Amber and Clay
My Inner Sky: On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between
My Last Summer with Cass
Feelings: A Story in Seasons
  • Please Please Tell Me Now by Stephen Davis
    Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story

    Release date: Jun 29, 2021
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    Availability: 50 copies available, 1489 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: May 06 - May 18, 2021

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  • What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy
    What Storm, What Thunder
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    Release date: Oct 05, 2021
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    Giveaway dates: May 07 - May 19, 2021

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  • The Council of Animals by Nick McDonell
    The Council of Animals
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    Release date: Jul 20, 2021
    After The Calamity, animals convene to debate whether to help the last human stragglers . . . or to eat them.
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  • Big Lies in a Small Town
    Billie Eilish
    Nothing Ventured (Detective William Warwick, #1)
    Second Place
    The Great Believers
    Autumn (Seasonal, #1)
    Claudia and the New Girl
    Sea Prayer
    Cat Kid Comic Club
    Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
    Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
    How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
    I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
    ブルーピリオド 1 (Blue Period., #1)
    Still Lives
    Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
    Art & Artists in Fiction
    762 books — 1,088 voters
    Incarnate by Jodi MeadowsThe Selection by Kiera CassEverneath by Brodi AshtonA Million Suns by Beth RevisExiled by RaShelle Workman
    Breath Taking Covers Of 2011-2012
    497 books — 881 voters

    National Geographic by Leah Bendavid-ValThe Art Book by Phaidon PressSetting the Family Free by Eric D. GoodmanAnsel Adams by Ansel Adams"Vanity Fair" Portraits by Graydon Carter
    Best Coffee Table Books
    455 books — 273 voters
    1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellBeing and Time by Martin HeideggerSiddhartha by Hermann HesseGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
    Best Books To Frame Thinking
    1,161 books — 1,484 voters

    Torment by Lauren KateLinger by Maggie StiefvaterCrescendo by Becca FitzpatrickIncarceron by Catherine FisherMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
    Best Book Covers of 2010
    182 books — 281 voters
    Black Butler, Vol. 1 by Yana TobosoPandora Hearts 1巻 by Jun MochizukiFruits Basket, Vol. 1 by Natsuki TakayaSailor Moon, Vol. 1 by Naoko TakeuchiA Bride's Story, Vol. 1 by Kaoru Mori
    Best Manga Art
    283 books — 278 voters

    Ways of Seeing
    The Story of Art
    The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
    Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
    Wall and Piece
    The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
    Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    The Art Book
    Concerning the Spiritual in Art
    The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    Seven Days in the Art World
    The Goldfinch
    History of Beauty
    On Photography

    Anaïs Nin
    “ I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ...more ”
    ― Anais Nin

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “ If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous rewar ...more ”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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    Life imitates Art
    1 chapters — updated Aug 14, 2012 11:54AM — 14 people liked it

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