The Great Courses: Visual Literacy Skills

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The books mentioned within The Great Courses course titled "Visual Literacy Skills".
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
by Oliver Sacks
11,290 members
203 reviews
3.9
2
The Design of Everyday Things
by Donald A. Norman
5,287 members
66 reviews
4
3
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
by Scott McCloud
5,034 members
96 reviews
½ 4.3
4
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger
4,830 members
59 reviews
4
5
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
by Daniel H. Pink
3,398 members
74 reviews
4
6
On Photography
by Susan Sontag
3,266 members
40 reviews
4
7
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
2,534 members
20 reviews
4.1
8
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative
by Austin Kleon
2,217 members
90 reviews
4
9
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
2,120 members
43 reviews
½ 3.7
10
Colour: Travels Through the Paintbox
by Victoria Finlay
2,100 members
28 reviews
3.9
11
The Non-Designer's Design Book
by Robin Williams
1,957 members
31 reviews
4
12
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
by Twyla Tharp
1,687 members
33 reviews
4.1
13
Thinking with Type
by Ellen Lupton
1,454 members
16 reviews
3.9
14
Interaction of Color
by Josef Albers
1,389 members
6 reviews
4
15
The Secret Lives of Color
by Kassia St Clair
1,188 members
28 reviews
4.1
17
You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
by Katharine Harmon
800 members
10 reviews
4
18
Comics & Sequential Art
by Will Eisner
796 members
3 reviews
4
19
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by Rudolf Arnheim
748 members
6 reviews
4
20
Picture This: How Pictures Work
by Molly Bang
599 members
23 reviews
4.2
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Principles of Art History
by Heinrich Wölfflin
597 members
1 review
4.1
22
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques
by Ralph Mayer
579 members
1 review
½ 4.4
24
Art as Therapy
by Alain De Botton
461 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
25
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
by Yi-Fu Tuan
438 members
3 reviews
4.1
26
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice
by Otto G. Ocvirk
402 members
3 reviews
3.8
27
Dictionary of Symbols
by Carl G. Liungman
382 members
1 review
3.9
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Letters on Cézanne
by Rainer Maria Rilke
365 members
2 reviews
4
29
A Sense of Where You Are
by John McPhee
350 members
6 reviews
4
30
Primer of Visual Literacy
by Donis A. Dondis
294 members
3 reviews
4
31
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing
by James Elkins
268 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
by Arthur C. Danto
252 members
1 review
½ 4.4
33
Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
by Anne Truitt
233 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
34
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
by Margaret Livingstone
206 members
2 reviews
½ 4.5
35
Chromaphobia : Ancient and Modern, and a Few Notable Exceptions
by David Batchelor
198 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
36
Launching the Imagination
by Mary Stewart
195 members
1 review
½ 2.7
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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
by Roma Agrawal
190 members
1 review
3.8
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
by Lucy R. Lippard
190 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Living with Art
by Mark Getlein
162 members
1 review
½ 3.7
40
The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts
by Rudolf Arnheim
150 members
1 review
4.1
41
Matisse on Art
by Jack Flam
140 members
½ 3.6
42
Visual Grammar
by Christian Leborg
112 members
1 review
4
43
Seeing & Writing
by Donald McQuade
85 members
½ 3.3
44
Inside the Painter's Studio
by Joe Fig
82 members
½ 4.3
45
The pocket dictionary of art terms
by Julia M. Ehresmann
64 members
46
Turn: The Journal of an Artist
by Anne Truitt
61 members
½ 4.3
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Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches
by Matthew Champion
60 members
1 review
4
48
Art Is the Highest Form of Hope & Other Quotes by Artists
by Phaidon Editors
53 members
½ 4.3
50
Visual Literacy
by James Elkins
35 members
2 reviews
2
52
The eye's mind : Bridget Riley : Collected writings 1965-1999
by Bridget Riley
20 members
5
53
Aesthetics in Perspective
by Kathleen M. Higgins
9 members