Books For Artists

Here's a selected list of art-related books. They can be purchased via AMAZON.COM. Simply click the name of the book to get complete information.

acting training appraisals/prices for art architecture artists beads/beading bestsellers body art business advice careers/employment/jobs ceramics/clay choreography color comics computers crafts criticism dance design digital art/artists directories documentary filmmaking drama drawing education employment ethnic exhibiting film acting film/video filmmaking films funding/fundraising galleries geography glass grants graphics history how-to horror illustration improve your art-making skills internet internships international exchange jewelry lectures literary agencies/agents magazines marketing your art metalsmithing movies museums music needlework non-profit corporation formation novel marketing painting pastels performing arts performing artists photography photography bestsellers playwriting poetry portfolio photography publishing your writing quilts/quilting recording industry/records research grants residencies scholarships science and art self employment selling your art supporting yourself taxes teachers/teaching textiles theatre theatre training transporting artwork travel opportunities video artists visual art bestsellers watercolors woodworking world wide web writing acting training Directory of Theatre Training Programs appraisals/prices for art Art Price Annual architecture Building That Changed the World artists The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention Frida Kahlo: The Paintings Rembrandt's Eyes Edward Steichen: The Early Years Explosive Acts: Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Felix Feneon and the Art & Anarchy of the Fin de Siecle beads/beading The Best Little Beading Book Making Glass Beads bestsellers Blue Dog Man Art for Dummies The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000 History of Art Andy Goldsworthy : A Collaboration With Nature Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945 Life Is Paradise: The Portraits of Francesco Clemente The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950 Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection Dali: The Paintings body art Body Decoration: A World Survey of Body Art Painted Bodies: By Forty-Five Chilean Artists BODY AND THE EAST: From the 1960s to the Present The Art of Henna: The Ultimate Body Art Book and Kit Artist Body: Performances 1969-1998 Bindi Body Art Kit Body Art/Performing the Subject business advice How To Survive & Prosper As An Artist The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotions: How to Promote Yourself, Your Business, Your Ideas Online by Peter Kent & Tara Calishain careers/employment/jobs Great Jobs for Art Majors by Blythe Camenson Arts and Crafts Careers Opportunities in Photography Careers Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist Careers in the Arts The National Resource Guide for the Placement of Artists ceramics/clay choreography color Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction comics Art of Comic Inking Comics Between The Panels computers The Secret Guide to Computers crafts Arts and Crafts Careers Crafts Supply Sourcebook crating artwork for travel criticism On Trust: Art and the Temptations of Suspicion dance Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Movement Improvisation A Sense of Dance design Becoming a Graphic Designer: A Guide to Careers in Design Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market: 2,500 Places to Sell Your Art The Non-Designer's Design Book Graphic Design: A Concise History The Un-Private House Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail From the Twenties and Thirties A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works From the Saxe Collection Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics If This House Could Talk: Historic Homes, Extraordinary Americans Stickley Style: Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition Furniture Studio: The Heart of the Functional Arts Two Looks to Home: The Art of Tommy Simpson Chihuly Indian Interiors Color and Light: Luminous Atmospheres for Painted Rooms At Home With Art: How Art Lovers Live With and Care for Their Treasures The Carpet: Origins, Art and History The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition Influential Interiors: Shaping 20th Century Style Through Key Interior Designers Op to Pop: Furniture of the 1960s digital art/artists Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists: Creative Techniques and Insights for Photoshop, Painter and More by Jeremy Sutton and Daryl Wise and Peter Max directories The International Guide to Art Fairs and Antiques Shows by Antique Collector' Club documentary filmmaking Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos by Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Taylor Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries of Real Events by Barry Hampe Directing the Documentary by Michael Rabiger Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos by Alan Rosenthal drama Art, Music, Drama Diretory of Theatre Training Programs drawing Drawing from Observation by Brian Curtis THE YOGA OF DRAWING: Uniting Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Art of Drawing The Drawing Book The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain education The Art Teacher's BOOK OF LISTS employment Careers in the Arts The National Resource Guide for the Placement of Artists ethnic Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Art exhibiting Taking the Leap: Building a Career As a Visual Artist film acting Your Film Acting Career film/video The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson Money for Film and Video Artists Making Videos for Money: Planning and Producing Information Videos, Commercials, and Infomercials Video Scriptwriting: How to Write for the $4 Billion Commercial Video Market filmmaking Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Butget Movies by Dale Newton, John Gaspart The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age by Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, Carol Keller, Robert Brun, Ted spagna The IFILM Digital Video Filmmaker's Handbook 2001 by Maxie D Collier What They Don't Teach You at Film School: 161 Strategies to Making Your Own Movie No Matter What by Camille Landau, Tiare White Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriquez The Matrix: The Shooting Script and Complete Storyboards films The A List: The National society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films by Jay Carr, National Society of Film Critics The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made funding/fundraising Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts Dont Just Applaud-Send Money!: The Most Successful Strategies for Funding and Marketing the Arts by Alvin Reiss Successful Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations galleries New York Contemporary Art Galleries: The Complete Annual Guide geography The Dictionary of Imaginary Places glass Contemporary Lampworking: A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame More than You Ever Wanted To Know About Glass Beadmaking Making Glass Beads Glass Notes: A Reference for the Glass Artist Chihuly grants graphics Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market: 2,500 Places to Sell Your Art history Sister Wendy's Story of Painting horror The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of Inflight Accidents Killer Art: Art that has Maimed, Killed, or Caused General Destruction Throught the Centuries how-to How to Make Money as an Artist by Sean Moore illustration The Directory of Illustration & Design improve The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Perspective on the Classical Tradition Anatomy for the Artist Oil Painting for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study The 5 Essentials in Every Powerful Painting How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself: Experimental Techniques for Achieving Realistic Effects The Drawing Handbook: Comprehensive, Easy-To-Master Lessons on Composition and Techniques Using Pencil and Pen & Ink How to Draw What You See The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting With Notes on Their Techniques of the Old Masters Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor internet Art and the Internet Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotions: How to Promote Yourself, Your Business, Your Ideas Online by Peter Kent & Tara Calishain The Rough Guide to the Internet 1999 internships National Directory of Art Internships 2001-2002 international exchange Money for International Exchange in the Arts jewelry The Complete Metalsmith The Encyclopedia of Jewelry-Making Techniques The Best Little Beading Book lectures Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art literary agencies/agents Guide to Literary Agents 2005 magazines Best of Flair Fortune: The Art of Covering Business marketing your art Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotions: How to Promote Yourself, Your Business, Your Ideas Online by Peter Kent & Tara Calishain Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts Art Marketing 101: A Handbook for the Fine Artist The Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion: Innovative Techniques to Build Your Career As an Artist The Artist's Guide to New Markets metalsmithing The Complete Metalsmith movies The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made museums Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2000 music A Century of Country: An Illustrated History of Country Music Art, Music, Drama Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts Confessions of a Record Producer Tim Sweeney's Guide to Releasing Independent Records needlework Complete Guide to Needlework non-profit corporation formation How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation novel marketing 2000 Novel and Short Story Writer's Market The Sell-Your-Novel Toolkit painting THE ZEN OF CREATIVE PAINTING: An Elegant Design for Revealing Your Muse The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Fabric Painting pastels The Pastel Book performing arts How to Make Money Performing in Schools: The Definitive Guide to Developing, Marketing, and Presenting School Assembly Programs by David Heflick Standing Room Only: Strategies for Marketing the Performing Arts Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts performing artists Directory of Theatre Training Programs Money for Performing Artists photography The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1) by Ansel Adams, Robert Baker The Negative (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 2) by Ansel Adams, Robert Baker The Print (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 3) by Ansel Adams, Robert Baker The Model Wife: Nine Couples who have Collaborated as Photographer and Wife How to Take Good Pictures: A Photo Guide by Kodak The Ansel Adams Guide: Basic Techniques of Photography National Geographic Photography Field Guide Seizing The Light: A History Of Photography Color Photography: A Working Manual How to Photograph Works of Art Opportunities in Photography Careers photography bestsellers Women LIFE: Our Century in Pictures Century: One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope 1899-1999 Physiognomy: The Mark Seliger Photographs The Chop Suey Club The Family of Man Sixties Hotel Lachapelle The Camera (Ansel Adams Photography, Book 1) The Model Wife playwriting Stage Writers Handbook poetry 2005 Poets Market (Poet's Market) Directory of Poetry Publishers 2000 Poet's Market Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents portfolio photography How to Photograph Works of Art pottery The Complete Potter's Companion publishing your writing How to Get Your E-Book Published: An Insider's Guide to the World of Electronic Publishing by Richard Curtis & William Thomas Quick The Self-Publishing Manual International Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses 2005 Writer's Market The Sell-Your-Novel Toolkit quilts/quilting Magic Stack-N-Whack Quilts recording industry/records Everything You'd Better Know about the Record Industry Confessions of a Record Producer Tim Sweeney's Guide to Releasing Independent Records research grants A Practical Guide to Arts Participation Research residencies Artists' Communities: A Directory of Residencies in the United States that Offer Time and Space for Creativity scholarships How to Go to College Almost for Free: The Secrets of Winning Scholarship Money" by Benjamin R. Kaplan, Ben Kaplan Peterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2001 The Scholarship Book 2002 science and art Weird Science: A Conflation of Art and Science self employment The Artist's Guide to New Markets How To Survive & Prosper As An Artist The Sell-Your-Novel Toolkit Supporting Yourself as an Artist selling your art Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos: How to Sell Your Pictures to a World of Markets a Mailbox Away (4th Edition) by Rohn Engh How To Survive & Prosper As An Artist supporting yourself How To Survive & Prosper As An Artist A Practical Guide to Arts Participation Research The Scholarship Book 2000 Supporting Yourself as an Artist Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market: 2,500 Places to Sell Your Art taxes teachers/teaching A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher by Helen D Hume The Art Teacher's BOOK OF LISTS textiles Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Fabric Painting theatre Art, Music, Drama Directory of Theatre Training Programs theatre training Directory of Theatre Training Programs transporting artwork Way to Go! Crating Your Artwork for Travel travel opportunities Money for International Exchange in the Arts video artists Money for Film and Video Artists visual art bestsellers watercolors THE TAO OF WATERCOLOR: A Revolutionary Approach to the Practice of Painting The Encyclopedia of Watercolor Techniques woodworking Understanding Wood world wide web HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet writing On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K Zinsser The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative Newspaper The American Directory of Writer's Guidelines Official AWP Guide to Writing Programs The Self-Publishing Manual Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers and Literary Agents Join the BOOKS FOR ARTISTS mailing list and get information about new books for artists about once a week by email. 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