The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
10 best books like The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination (Fiona MacCarthy): Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, An Object of Beauty, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, The Story of Art, Amphigorey, Gap Creek, Ways of Seeing, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
| Author | Ross King |
| ISBN | 0142000159 |
Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance man bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder. Not a master mason or carpenter, Filippo Brunelleschi was a goldsmith and clock maker. Over twenty-eight years, he would dedicate himself to solving puzzles...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
| Author | Edmund de Waal |
| ISBN | 0374105979 |
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in nineteenth-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none...
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
| Author | Simon Garfield |
| ISBN | 1592406521 |
What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with easy Jet or why it’s okay to like Comic Sans, Just My Type will have the answer. Learn why using upper case got a New Zealand health worker...
| Author | Steve Martin |
| ISBN | 0446573647 |
Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension...
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music.
Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than...
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...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
| Author | Robert Morgan |
| ISBN | 0743203631 |
Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of Gap Creek, where perhaps life will...
| Author | John Berger |
| ISBN | 0140135154 |
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...
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...
Learning to Love You More
| Author | Harrell Fletcher |
| ISBN | 3791337335 |
Once upon a time, when the Internet was young, a pair of artists made a site called http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/. They created "assignments" which people carried out, posting the results. It was sweet. It was wonky and personal and empowering. The site is still up. My favorite assignment is...
| Author | Miranda July |
| ISBN | 1936365014 |
In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film. During her increasingly long lunch breaks, she began to obsessively read the PennySaver, the iconic classifieds booklet that reached everywhere and seemed to come from nowhere....
