Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art in Time a World History of Styles and Movements. Phaidon, 2014.
Art in Time a World History of Styles and Movements is a comprehensive display of 150 artistic movements throughout history. It’s a go to for someone interested in art history and specifically putting art into its historical context. Everyone is influenced by something and this helps show where that is and why that is. This text is a comprehensive guide to connecting a lot of the renaissance era drawing techniques to how they were used and broken since then.
Peck, Stephen. Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist. Oxford University Press, n.d..
Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist is a go to text for understanding human anatomy and hence turning your gesture into a human. It’s a detailed book for someone who wants to seriously understand the anatomy of the human body. It can be used during a project to double check what humans should really look like. I plan to work in figure and portrait drawing so I will need to learn a good deal of human anatomy.
Lang, Katja, and Emmanouil Kalkanis. An Analysis of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. Macat International Ltd, 2017.
An Analysis of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a work to help a beginner artist understand Berger in his stand out work: Ways of Seeing. The book is about three essays regarding ideas around connection between art and the real world. It’s not a hard artistic guide, but more a thoughtful thinking on ideas around it. While I’m mainly focused on the technique ideas around drawing I am interested in diving deeper into some of the more academic points of art.
Berger, John. Landscapes John Berger on Art. Verso, 2018.
Landscapes John Berger on Art is a collection of essays, poems, and other forms of writing on seeing and making art of landscapes. It’s not a hard dive into techniques for drawing specific things, but a guide for a way of thinking while viewing them. One of the main points of my senior project is hiking and painting things I see along the way. But more of my time will be looking at nature rather than drawing it. I think this work will help both the drawing part and the viewing part.
Edwards, Betty. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Tarcher/Penguin, 2012.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is a famous book about the science and techniques of drawing. This will help give an interesting insight into how we humans think when we are making art, and how to do it. This book is something that is basically required for anyone who is a serious beginner. It seems unjust if I don’t read it while spending five weeks working on learning how to draw.