M.C. Escher: 29 Masterworks

8 best books like M.C. Escher: 29 Masterworks (M.C. Escher): Color: A Natural History of the Palette, The Story of Art, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Georgia O'Keeffe, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, The Story of Painting, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Author	Victoria Finlay
ISBN	0812971426

Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors.
For example: Cleopatra used saffron—a source of the color yellow—for seduction. Extracted from an Afghan mine, the blue “ultramarine” paint used by Michelangelo was so expensive he couldn’t afford to buy it himself....

The Story of Art

Author

E.H. Gombrich

This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence...

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Author	Wassily Kandinsky
ISBN	0486234118

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...

Georgia O'Keeffe

Author	Georgia O'Keeffe
ISBN	0140046771

I recommend reading this book after Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, which I gave five stars. The first is a biography of her whole life. With that as a background you easily recognize the people and the places she speaks of. Here, the artist speaks only of her art. This is a large format...

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Author	Vincent van Gogh
ISBN	0140446745

A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this Penguin Classics edition, the letters are selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw, and translated by Arnold...

The Story of Painting

Author	Wendy Beckett
ISBN	0789468050

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This book hit me before the television portion did...literally. I was at a gallery showing of photos from the brother of the film industry's biggest star in the 1990s, and as usual I was lost, not being the most adept at art or photography. When...

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Author	Betty Edwards
ISBN	0874774241

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary...

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

Author	Gregory White Smith
ISBN	0913391190

I've always liked Jackson Pollock's paintings but never really knew that much about him personally. Well, OK, I knew he was an angry drunk & a nice guy when sober. I knew he had major fame after a Life Magazine article about him. I knew most of his work. I even knew he died in a car accident. But this book...