Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

8 best books like Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (Robert L. Herbert): In a Sunburned Country, Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Ways of Seeing, Uncommon Places: The Complete Works, Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings, The Upside of Falling Down, Islam : Art and Architecture

In a Sunburned Country
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0767903862
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE SUMMER

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned...
AuthorPeter Allison
ISBN0762745657
A hilarious, highly original collection of essays based on the Botswana truism: “only food runs!”

In the tradition of Bill Bryson, a new writer brings us the lively adventures and biting wit of an African safari guide. Peter Allison gives us the guide’s-eye view of living in the bush,...
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
AuthorWassily Kandinsky
ISBN0486234118
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonobjective painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), it explains Kandinsky's own theory of painting and...
Ways of Seeing
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0140135154
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
AuthorStephen Shore
ISBN0500542872
When I elbowed through the pink David LaChapelles and the anal-retentive Ansels (always the Ansels) I discovered this at the local B&N today, its dust jacket beaten-up and sliced a little on the back, by an incautiously wielded box cutter probably. Usually these defects alone would dissuade me...
AuthorJames Elkins
ISBN0415970539
Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins tells the story...
The Upside of Falling Down
AuthorRebekah Crane
For Clementine Haas, finding herself is more than a nice idea. Ever since she woke up in an Irish hospital with complete amnesia, self-discovery has become her mission.

They tell her she’s the lone survivor of a plane crash. They tell her she’s lucky to be alive. But she doesn’t feel lucky....
Islam : Art and Architecture
AuthorMarkus Hattstein
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