The Great Courses: Visual Literacy Skills

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The books mentioned within The Great Courses course titled "Visual Literacy Skills".
1
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
13,043 members
237 reviews
3.9
2
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
5,958 members
67 reviews
4
3
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,763 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
4
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
4,854 members
65 reviews
4.1
5
On Photography
by Susan Sontag
3,939 members
48 reviews
4
6
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
by Daniel H. Pink
3,659 members
76 reviews
4
7
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
3,031 members
24 reviews
4.1
8
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative
by Austin Kleon
2,979 members
101 reviews
4.1
9
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
2,432 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
10
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
by Victoria Finlay
2,391 members
31 reviews
3.9
11
The Non-Designer's Design Book
by Robin Williams
2,145 members
32 reviews
4
12
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
by Twyla Tharp
1,983 members
34 reviews
4.1
13
Interaction of Color
by Josef Albers
1,770 members
7 reviews
4.1
14
Thinking with Type
by Ellen Lupton
1,764 members
17 reviews
3.9
15
The Secret Lives of Color
by Kassia St Clair
1,762 members
36 reviews
4.1
17
Comics and Sequential Art: Principle and practices from the legendary cartoonist
by Will Eisner
943 members
3 reviews
4
18
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
by Katharine Harmon
872 members
10 reviews
4
19
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by Rudolf Arnheim
863 members
6 reviews
4
20
Picture This: How Pictures Work
by Molly Bang
713 members
25 reviews
4.1
22
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques
by Ralph Mayer
671 members
1 review
½ 4.4
24
Art as Therapy
by Alain De Botton
602 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
25
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
by Yi-Fu Tuan
492 members
3 reviews
4.1
26
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice
by Otto G. Ocvirk
465 members
3 reviews
3.9
27
Dictionary of Symbols
by Carl G. Liungman
418 members
1 review
3.9
28
Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke
404 members
2 reviews
4
29
A Sense of Where You Are
by John McPhee
382 members
7 reviews
4
30
Primer of Visual Literacy
by Donis A. Dondis
343 members
3 reviews
4
31
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing
by James Elkins
298 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
32
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
by Arthur C. Danto
291 members
1 review
½ 4.4
33
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
by Anne Truitt
291 members
3 reviews
4.2
34
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
by Roma Agrawal
271 members
2 reviews
3.8
35
Chromaphobia : Ancient and Modern, and a Few Notable Exceptions
by David Batchelor
262 members
5 reviews
3.8
36
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
by Margaret Livingstone
238 members
2 reviews
½ 4.6
37
Launching the Imagination
by Mary Stewart
213 members
1 review
3
38
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
by Lucy R. Lippard
211 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
39
Living with Art
by Mark Getlein
191 members
1 review
½ 3.6
40
The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts
by Rudolf Arnheim
165 members
1 review
½ 4.3
41
Matisse on Art
by Jack Flam
163 members
½ 3.6
42
Visual Grammar
by Christian Leborg
132 members
1 review
4
43
Seeing & Writing
by Donald McQuade
96 members
½ 3.3
44
Inside the Painter's Studio
by Joe Fig
95 members
½ 4.3
45
Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches
by Matthew Champion
95 members
1 review
4
46
Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists
by Phaidon Editors
83 members
½ 4.3
47
The pocket dictionary of art terms
by Julia M. Ehresmann
74 members
48
Turn: The Journal of an Artist
by Anne Truitt
72 members
½ 4.3
50
Visual Literacy
by James Elkins
43 members
2 reviews
2
52
The eye's mind : Bridget Riley : Collected writings 1965-1999
by Bridget Riley
24 members
5
53
Aesthetics in Perspective
by Kathleen M. Higgins
14 members