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A guide to books and online resources about different aspects of drawing including perspective, color, the figure, and more.
Books That Inspire
These are some suggested readings from your Art instructors for those times when you feel "stuck" as you look for ideas, inspiration, motivation, etc....
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
Call Number: BH301.C84 N33 1990 -
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
Call Number: NC730 .E34 2012b -
The Courage to Create by Rollo May
Call Number: BF408 .M33 1994 -
Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting by Leon Battista Alberti
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Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles; Ted Orland
Call Number: N71 .B37 1993 -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Call Number: N7430.5 .W39 1973 -
Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997 by Louise Bourgeois
Call Number: NB237 .B65 A2 1998 -
The View from the Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way in an Uncertain World by Ted Orland
Call Number: N71 .O74 2006 -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Call Number: PT2635.I65 A6 2013 -
101 Things to Learn in Art School by Kit White
Call Number: N325 .W49 2011 -
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Call Number: PN471 .W6 -
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life by Twyla Tharp
Call Number: BF408 .T415 2006 -
The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life by Sharon Louden
Call Number: NX180.A77 A749 2017