 | The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques: Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated (Artists' Handbook of Materials and Techniques) by Ralph Mayer
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $16.00 An encyclopedic and dense reference manual for the chemical properties and handling qualities of traditional fine art materials. Not exactly an easy read, but quite useful for the detailed information.
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 | The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
Buy new: $10.94 / Used from: $6.16 Classic and very helpful handbook dealing with the psychology of drawing. Helps to understand and develop a more conscious awareness of the mental processes involved.
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 | Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $18.78 |
 | The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition by Anthony Ryder
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.94 Hardcore.
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 | The Complete Oil Painter: The Essential Reference for Beginners to Professionals by Brian Gorst
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.22 Looks like a good solid all around introduction to the art of oil painting.
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 | Formulas for Painters by Robert Massey
Buy used from: $9.96 Handy recipes for sizes, grounds, glazes, mediums, varnishes, fixatives...etc.
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 | The Painter in Oil by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $11.32 |
 | The Artist's Channel: 20 Hour On-line Video Subscription
Now this looks very helpful.
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 | 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship by Salvador Dali
Buy new: $8.32 / Used from: $4.47 Very odd, amusing and interesting book.
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 | The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color by Johannes Itten
Buy used from: $229.49 An exploration of the philosophical and technical aspects of color.
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 | The Elements of Color by Johannes Itten
Buy used from: $29.68 |
 | Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus and Later, Revised Edition by Johannes Itten
Buy new: $40.00 / Used from: $25.00 |
 | Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory by Stephen Quiller
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $10.19 |
 | Painter's Guide to Color by Stephen Quiller
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.97 |
 | Gardner's Art Through the Ages (with ArtStudy Student CD-ROM and InfoTrac ) by Fred S. Kleiner
Buy new: $174.95 / Used from: $41.00 An older edition can often be found at used book stores to save a little money. Seems like a nice general introduction to the History of Art.
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 | Art History, Combined (w/CD-ROM) by Marilyn Stokstad
Buy new: $150.60 / Used from: $26.23 |
 | Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (California Studies in the History of Art ; 35)
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $13.50 |
 | Art in Theory 1900 - 2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Buy new: $48.95 / Used from: $36.00 |
 | Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art Volume I (Aesthetics) by G. W. F. Hegel
Buy new: $60.00 / Used from: $48.75 |
 | Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism by Hal Foster
Buy used from: $59.98 |
 | Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985
Buy new: $43.07 / Used from: $30.09 |
 | German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism (Documents of Twentieth Century Art) by Rose-Carol Washton Long
Buy new: $23.35 / Used from: $14.98 |
 | The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944 by Clement Greenberg
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $19.93 |
 | The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 2: Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949 by Clement Greenberg
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $3.97 |
 | The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals, 1950-1956 (The Collected Essays and Criticism , Vol 3) by Clement Greenberg
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $18.50 |
 | The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969 (The Collected Essays and Criticism , Vol 4) by Clement Greenberg
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $17.65 |
 | After the End of Art by Arthur C. Danto
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $10.95 A contemporary philosopher of aesthetic theory.
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 | The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art by Arthur C. Danto
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $7.21 A contemporary philosopher of aesthetic theory.
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 | Kandinsky: Complete Writings On Art by Kenneth C. Lindsay
Buy new: $28.37 / Used from: $19.45 Grandfather of Geometric Abstraction, massively influential artist and theorist of modernism. Highly recommended.
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 | The Writings of Robert Motherwell (Documents of Twentieth-Century Art) by Robert Motherwell
Buy new: $23.32 / Used from: $15.14 An eloquent and comprehensible philosopher of the New York Abstract Expressionist school.
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 | The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 by Paul Klee
Buy new: $21.55 / Used from: $6.50 |
 | No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock by David Anfam
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $19.98 The man, the myth, the legend.
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 | Pollock
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.53 Excellent Movie.
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 | Jackson Pollock by Glenn Lowry
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $34.90 MOMA Cataloque from exhibition.
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 | The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-1993 by Gerhard Richter
Buy used from: $20.00 |
 | Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting by Robert Storr
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $45.00 |
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