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Color Theory
| On Color | Amy Sillman | |
![]() | Interaction of Color | Josef Albers |
| Black and White | Katy Siegel | |
| Cabinet Essays on Color | ||
![]() | Chromophobia | David Batchelor |
| Pink!: Community, Contestation and the Colour of Breast Cancer | Charlene Elliott | |
![]() | Goethe's Theory of Colours | Goethe |
| Matisse's Black Light | John Gage | |
| Red and black and color in general | Donald Judd | |
![]() | Yellow Perils | David Scott Kastan |
Art Theory
| In Plato's Cave | Susan Sontag | |
![]() | Why Look at Animals | John Berger |
Art History & Criticism
| The Indigo Revolt of Bengal | Subhas Bhattacharya | |
| The Forever Now | Laura Hauptman | |
| Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's Imaginary Portraits | Zadie Smith | |
![]() | Ninth Street Women | Mary Gabriel |
| Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy | Dave Hickey | |
| Art on My Mind | Bell Hooks | |
![]() | Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston | Musa Mayer |
![]() | The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art, and the Spirit World | Jennifer Higgie |
| I Want to Paint Every Color in the World | John Yau | |
| What Do Reliquaries Do for Relics? | Cynthia Hahn | |
| The "Iron Man": Imagining Muslims and Vanishing Objects in the Shrine of Sainte Foy at Conques | Kris N. Racaniello |
Artist Writing
![]() | Faux Pas | Amy Sillman |
![]() | Notes from the Woodshed | Jack Whitten |
![]() | Daybook, The Journal of an Artist | Anne Truitt |
| The Creative Independent: Interviews with Artists and Creatives |
Process
![]() | The Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick Rubin |
![]() | The Courage to Create | Rollo May |
![]() | Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear | Elizabeth Gilbert |
![]() | The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life | Twyla Tharp |
![]() | Artist's Guide to Making a Living Doing What You Love | Jackie Battenfield |
| Letters to a Young Artist | ||
| Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind/Baby Problem | Julie Phillips |
Vision & Perception
| Notes on Seeing | Siri Hustvedt | |
| Woolf's Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable | Rebecca Solnit |
Literature
![]() | Bluets | Maggie Nelson |
![]() | My Private Property | Mary Ruefle |
![]() | The Colour out of Space | H.P. Lovecraft |
![]() | The Country of the Blind | H.G. Wells |
![]() | My Name is Red (excerpt) | Orhan Pamuk |
![]() | The Whiteness of the Whale, Moby Dick excerpt | Herman Melville |
| Everything is Waiting for You | David Whyte |






















