History

Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by
Michael Baxandall | purchase
Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art by Hans Belting and Edmund Jephcott | purchase
Italian Painters of the Renaissance by Bernard Berenson | purchase
Ways of Seeing by John Berger | purchase
Italian Renaissance Art by Stephen J. Campbell and Michael W. Cole | purchase
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form by Kenneth Clark | purchase
Art and Ideas by William Fleming | purchase
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation by E. H. Gombrich | purchase
The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich | purchase
Greek Art and the Idea of Freedom by Denys Haynes | purchase
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes | purchase
Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods by Michael Hatt and Charlotte Klonk | purchase
The Problem of Form in Painting and Sculpture by Adolf Von Hildebrand | purchase
Taction: The Drama of the Stylus in Oriental Calligraphy by Ishikawa Kyuyoh | purchase
Art and Experience in Classical Greece by Jerome Jordan Pollitt | purchase
On Photography by Susan Sontag | purchase
The Lives of Artists Volumes 1 & 2 by Giorgio Vasari | purchase
Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance by Heinrich Wolfflin | purchase
Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art by Heinrich Wölfflin | purchase


Technique

On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti | purchase
Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More, by Andrew Biel| purchase
Body, Memory, and Architecture by Kent C. Bloomer, Cherles W. Moore, and Robert J. Yudell | purchase
Bridgman’s Complete Guide to Drawing from Life by George Bridgman | purchase
Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History of Spatial Illusion in Painting by William V. Dunning | purchase
Human Anatomy for Artists: The Elements of Form by Eliot Goldfinger | purchase
Painter’s Handbook by Mark David Gottsegen | purchase
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale | purchase
Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth by Andrew Loomis | purchase
Formulas for Painters by Robert Massey | purchase
The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer | purchase
Perspective as Symbolic Form by Erwin Panofsky and Christopher S. Wood | purchase
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist by Stephen Rodgers Peck | purchase
The Discovery of Pictorial Composition: Theories of Visual Order in Painting by Professor Thomas
Puttfarkenh | purchase
The Book of Fine Paper: A Worldwide Guide to Contemporary Papers for Art, Design & Decoration by
Silvie Turner | purchase
Which Paper?: A Guide to Choosing and Using Fine Papers for Artists, Craftspeople, and Designers by
Silvie Turner | purchase
A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci | purchase
The Human Figure by John H. Vanderpoel | purchase
The Craft of Old-Master Drawings by James Watrous | purchase


Inspiration

Art & Fear by David Bayles | purchase
The Horse’s Mouth by Joyce Cary | purchase
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy
Gallwey | purchase
Van Gogh’s Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and Words by Vincent van Gogh| purchase
Hawthorne on Painting by Mrs. Charles W. Hawthorne | purchase
Giacometti Portrait by James Lord | purchase
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke | purchase
The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn | purchase
My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski | purchase
The Art Spirit: Robert Henri by Forbes Watson | purchase