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Subject: Books for Artists

About Looking by John Berger. N71.B398

The Everyday Work of Art: how artistic experience can transform your life by Eric Booth. N71.B66 1997

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. BF408.C35 1992

Silent Spring : Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling by Rachel Carson. SB959 C32s

Drawing Us In: how we experience visual art ; Deborah Chasman and Edna Chiang, eds. N62.D73 2000

The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings. D570.9 C97e

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. QH81.D56 1974

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard. QH81.D563 1992

Image and spirit in sacred and secular art by Jane Dillenberger. N72.R4 D45 1990

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. NC730.E34 1999

How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins. QP475.5 E456 2000

Color: a natural history of the palette by Victoria Finlay. ND1488.F56 2004

Time and Again by Jack Finney. PS3556.I52 F514t

White Oleander by Janet Fitch. PS3556.I8155 W47 2000x

Art & Soul: Notes on Creating by Audrey Flack. N71.F58 1991

The Book of Tobias by Sylvie Germain. PQ2667.E6845 T6313 2000

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh; selected and edited by Ronald de Leeuw. ND653.G7 A3 1996

Living Color by Natalie Goldberg. ND237.G59 A2 1997

The Grace of Great Things: creativity and innovation by Robert Grudin. BF408.G72 1990

Time and the Art of Living by Robert Grudin. BD638.G75 1988

The Forest Unseen: a Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell. QH105.T2 H37 2013

On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz. BF311.H646 2013

Concerning the spiritual in art and painting in particular by Wassily Kandinsky. N68.K16uE 1947

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman. N71.K557 2005

Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. [online resource] http://www.library.rochester.edu/ezproxy_voyager.php?voyredirect=http%3A//site.ebrary.com/lib/rochester/Doc%3Fid%3D10237109

The Lure of the Local: senses of place in a multicentered society by Lucy Lippard. GF503.L56 1997

Mixed Blessings: new art in multicultural America by Lucy Lippard. N6537.5 L5 1990

The Courage to Create by Rollo May. BF408.M33 1975 Love and Will by Rollo May. BF692.M46 1974

My Quest for Beauty by Rollo May. N71.M29 1985

Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. PR9199.3 M453 F84 1997

On Not Being Able to Paint by Marion Milner. ND1140.M65o 1967

Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore. BL624.M663 1992

The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore. BL624.M6644 1996

Originals, American Women Artists by Eleanor Munro. N6512.M78

Free Play: improvisation in life and art by Stephen Nachmanovitch. BH301.C84 N33 1990

Treasures of the Creative Spirit: an artist’s understanding of human creativity by Robert Piepenburg. BL624.P54 1998

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. CT275.P648 A3 1974

Centering in pottery, poetry, and the person by M.C. Richards [online resource] http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rochester/detail.action?docID=10484289

Home: a short history of an idea by Witold Rybczynski. NA7125.R9 1987

The Soloist by Mark Salzman. PS3569.A4627 S68 1994

On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry. BD241.W345 1987

Let’s See: writings on art from the New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl. N7445.2 S35 2008

The Shape of Content by Ben Shahn. N7445.S52s

Image and Spirit by Karen Stone. N72.R4 S76 2003

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri. PS3569.U725 D43 2001

Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy by Mark Taylor. BH39.T397 2012

The Phenomena of Man by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. BD512.T26pE 1965 Creativity in the Arts ; Vincent Tomas, ed. BF408.T65c

Daybook: the journal of an artist by Anne Truitt. N6537.T73 A2 1984

Evocative Objects: things we think with; Sherry Turkle, ed. BF175.5T73 E96 2007

More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike. PS3571.P4 M63 1999

Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari. N6922.V49 1987

A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty. PS3545.W464c