Arts and Ideas
10 best books like Arts and Ideas (William Fleming): The Art Forger, Still Lives, Piecing Me Together, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, Leonardo's Notebooks, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
| Author | B.A. Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1616201320 |
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and Claire Roth, a struggling young artist, is about to discover that there’s more to this crime than meets the...
| Author | Maria Hummel |
| ISBN | 1619021110 |
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women—the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others—and...
A timely and powerful story about a teen girl from a poor neighborhood striving for success, from acclaimed author Renée Watson.
Jade believes she must get out of her neighborhood if she’s ever going to succeed. Her mother says she has to take every opportunity. She has. She accepted a scholarship...
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
| Author | Thomas Sowell |
| ISBN | 0465081428 |
Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason,...
| Author | Leonardo da Vinci |
| ISBN | 1579124577 |
An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international best-seller.
Leonardo da Vinci—artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man—is a perennial source of fascination because of his astonishing intellect and boundless...
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| ISBN | 0192835807 |
An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also...
History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
| Author | Frederick Hartt |
| ISBN | 0133920933 |
An excellent book that gives us impressive details about the work of art which defines the Renaissance period. Placing himself in multiple angles to take a look at the artists'personal lives within the context of specific societal patterns, Hartt offers us more than enchanting images. He lets us see...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0553381342 |
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
| Author | Steven Pressfield |
| ISBN | 0446691437 |
Reading this book is like fishing through a landfill site for diamonds; they're there, just buried under mountains of crap.
The central thesis is that procrastination is often harmful to our long-term success, and of this point I have no disagreement. However the majority of the book is replete...
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
| Author | Pablo Neruda |
| ISBN | 0872864286 |
This collection of Neruda’s most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the United States, this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda’s various styles and themes. An impressive...
| Author | Dorothea Brande |
| ISBN | 0874771641 |
Refreshingly slim, beautifully written and deliciously elegant, Dorothea Brande's Becoming a Writer remains evergreen decades after it was first written. Brande believed passionately that although people have varying amounts of talent, anyone can write. It's just a question of finding the "writer's...
| Author | Helen Gardner |
| ISBN | 0155050907 |
The market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. With this book in hand, thousands of students have watched the story of art unfold in its...
Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel
| Author | Stefano Zuffi |
| ISBN | 0789310325 |
This exciting new art series combines the most popular artists with expert text and a fresh, unique, format destined to appeal to children and adults alike. Each of the Rizzoli Quadrifolios features sixteen foldout pages that open into huge poster-sized reproductions of the work, allowing readers...
| Author | Umberto Eco |
| ISBN | 0847826465 |
Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the...
| Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| ISBN | 0801831393 |
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
| Author | Marilyn Stokstad |
| ISBN | 0131893009 |
While I have always been interested in the history of art, I really didn’t know much about the subject. In order to rectify that fact, a few years ago I went in search of a good introductory book. After some research, I ended up picking up a copy of Marilyn Stokstad’s two-volume set, and I have...
30,000 Years of Art: The Story of Human Creativity across Time and Space
| Author | Phaidon Press |
| ISBN | 0714847895 |
30,000 Years of Art presents 1000 great works of art from all periods and regions in the world, arranged in chronological order for a general readership. Breaking through the usual geographical and cultural boundaries of art history, it celebrates the vast range of human artistry across time and space....
| Author | Jerry Z. Muller |
| ISBN | 0691174954 |
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government
Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards...
