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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorAmazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
David Attenborough, Susan Owens · 223 pages
Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery.
History of Beauty
Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele · 438 pages
From the Publisher: What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today. While closely examining the development of the visual
The Book of Kells: An Illustrated Introduction to the Manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin
Bernard Meehan · 95 pages
The Book of Kells is the most spectacular of a group of manuscripts created in Ireland and northern Britain between the seventh and tenth centuries, a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history remains controversial but it was in the keeping of the monastery of Kells, Co. Meath, for most of the Middle Ages - hence its name - and has been in the lib
Salvador Dali: 1904-1989
Gilles Neret · 96 pages
René Magritte: 1898–1967
Jacques Meuris, Rene Magritte · 176 pages
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
Carol Strickland · 222 pages
An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format.
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
Diane Waldman · 152 pages
"Out of the fantasies that enriched a private, often reclusive life, Joseph Cornell created a "poetic theater of memory." His box constructions and collages feature such characters as a Medici princess, birds, ballerinas, and movie stars. Using the seemingly commonplace materials that he collected in five-and-dime stores and other shops in New York City - cordial glasses, mirrors, marbles, and ma
Dalí
Robert Descharnes, Gilles Neret · 224 pages
Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918: The World in Female Form
Gottfried Fliedl · 239 pages
Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition
Vincent van Gogh · 2,500 pages
Rembrandt, 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
Michael Bockemuhl · 96 pages
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 166 pages
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we e
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality
Ingo F. Walther · 418 pages
Rothko
Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Mark Rothko · 96 pages
The Story of Painting
Wendy Beckett, Patricia Wright · 736 pages
Containing over 400 masterpieces of Western painting from the very beginnings of art to the present day, Sister Wendy Beckett includes nearly 200 close-ups to allow the reader to share her passion for, and knowledge of, painting.
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
Bruno Ernst, M.C. Escher · 112 pages
Mathematician Bruno Ernst examines the oeuvre of twentieth-century Dutch artist M. C. Escher, as well as the artist's life and his inspirations and techniques.
Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis
Lea van der Vinde
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
David Hockney · 312 pages
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Gregory White Smith, Steven Naifeh · 934 pages
Based on interviews with more than 850 people, this illustrated biography profiles the troubled life of the enigmatic avant-garde artist whose controversial work changed the definition of modern art.