If you loved The Story of Art

Books like The Story of Art

If you loved The Story of Art by E.H. Gombrich, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Art Book

Phaidon Press

No. 2

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Betty Edwards

2 people recommend it

No. 3

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

No. 4

History of Art

H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson

No. 5

The Shock of the New

Robert Hughes

No. 6

Wall and Piece

Banksy

No. 7

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Wassily Kandinsky

No. 8

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles, Ted Orland

No. 9

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Mark Roskill, Arnold J. Pomerans

No. 10

History of Beauty

Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele, Alastair McEwen

No. 11

Anatomy for the Artist

Sarah Simblet

No. 12

Seven Days in the Art World

Sarah Thornton

No. 13

The Last Nude

Ellis Avery

No. 14

The Natural Way to Draw

Kimon Nicolaides, Mamie Harmon

No. 15

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

Andy Warhol

No. 16

Anatomy for the Artist

Jenő Barcsay

No. 17

The Power of Art

Simon Schama

No. 18

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt

Caroline Preston

No. 19

The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella

No. 20

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

Danny Gregory

No. 21

The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art (Icon Editions)

Robert Henri, Forbes Watson, Margery A. Ryerson

No. 22

The 20th Century Art Book

Phaidon Press

No. 23

On Photography

Susan Sontag

No. 24

Art Through the Ages

Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya