The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
By now a modern classic, The Gift is a brilliantly orchestrated defense of the value…
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Elements of Color
This is a condensation of Itten’s major work, “The Art of Color”, published in Germany…
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness…
Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
The definitive work on the profound and surprising links between manic-depression and creativity, from the…
Art Class: A Complete Guide to Painting
From the team behind Chronicle Books’ best-selling art reference book Artist’s Manual comes the ultimate…
The organism
Dear Artist, A new organism is created when artists get together with people who want…
Who Says That’s Art?: A Commonsense View of the Visual Arts
Today’s artworld experts accept virtually anything as “art”–from all-black paintings and facsimiles of supermarket cartons…
Express Yourself with Pastel
Carole Katchen, well-known artist, workshop instructor and author, invites readers to begin expressing their own…
Simplifying Design & Color for Artists: Positive Results Using Negative Painting Techniques
When you become a better designer and colorist, you become a better painter. Painting…
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Michael Kimmelman, the prominent New York Times writer and a regular contributor to The New…