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“The past is a source of inspiration and fellowship, allowing our solitary lives and artistic body of work to be seen in a larger context, and we are propelled forward in its current.The book is a hundred years old, yet is as true and useful now as when it was first released. An underlying theme through all the books we’re discussing is that art is a skill that can be taught and mastery achieved by cultivating your skills” Read more...
The best books on Drawing and Painting
Juliette Aristides, Artists & Art Critic
Our most recommended books
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Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
by Reyner Banham -
The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
The Success and Failure of Picasso
by John Berger -
Types Best Remembered/Types Best Forgotten
by Robert Norton (editor)