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Art Appreciation Course

A Virtual Art Appreciation Text , John Seed

BOOK LIST : A Few Recommended Readings

Adler, Mortimer J. Art, the Arts and the Great Ideas. New York: Scribner, 1994.

Aimone, Steven. Expressive Drawing: A Practical Guide to Freeing the Artist Within. Lark

Alexander, Christopher. A Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Allen, Pat. Art is a Way of Knowing. Boston: Shambhala, 1995.

Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Press, 1973.

Coelho, Paolo. The Alchemist. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity, Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Performance. New York: Harper Perenniel, 1990.

Elkins, James. What Painting Is. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Finlay, Victoria. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003

Galenson, David. Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Creativity. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Gamwell, Lynn. Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science and the Spiritual. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Giardella, Daena and Wren Ross. Changing Patterns: Discovering the Fabric of Your Creativity. Hay House, 2006.

Grey, Alex. The Mission of Art. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.

Harvey, Miles, The Island of Lost Maps: True Story of Cartographic Crime. Boston: G.K. Hall, 2001.

Jung, G. C. Man and His Symbols. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1964

Maisel, Eric. Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America’s Foremost Creativity Coach. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2011.

A Life in the Arts. New York: Tarcher, 1994.

May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: Norton, 1975.

McNiff, Shaun. Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.

Nachmanovitch, Stephen. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1991.

Nimmer, Dean. Creating Abstract Art: Ideas and Inspiration for Passionate Art-‐Making. North Light Books, 2014.

Orland, Ted. Art and Fear. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra, 1993.

Pressfield, Steven. The War of Art: breakthrough the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. New York: Time Warner Books, 2002.

Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Times Past.

Richter, Gehard. The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-‐1993. Boston: MIT Press, 1995.

–Doubt and Belief in Painting. New York: MOMA, 2003.

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to a Young Poet. Translation by Herter Norton. New York: Norton, 1954.

Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude. New York: W.W. Norton, 1973. -‐-‐The House By the Sea. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977. -‐-‐At Seventy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Shalin, Leonard. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light. New York: Harper Perenniel, 2007.

Shapton, Leanne. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2009.

Tharpe, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Truitt, Anne. Daybook, the Journal of An Artist. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.

Warner, Sally. Making Room for Making Art: A Thoughtful and Practical Guide to Bringing the Pleasure of Artistic Expression Back into Your Life. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1994.

Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders. New York : Vintage Books, 1995.

Seeing if Forgetting the Name of the Thing one Sees: The Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982.

True To Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.