If you liked
Books like Understanding Comics
Loved Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from art & photography, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Ways of Seeing
How we look at images, and who benefits; a short, radical book that changed art criticism.
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On Photography
What taking and viewing photographs does to us; a brilliant, much-quoted set of essays.
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The Story of Art
The most readable single-volume history of Western art; a classic introduction for everyone.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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Plein Ciel
Wings is the story of a young woman who fights all the odds to fulfil her dreams. From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes shimmering in the moo
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Consider the Lobster
Restless, footnote-laden essays on everything from tennis to ethics; brilliant and exhausting in the best way.
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Louise Bourgeois
Though known primarily for her sculpture, Louise Bourgeois has displayed a lifelong passion for drawing and considers it to be essential to her oeuvre. This exceptional book is the first to combine ov
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Men Explain Things to Me
The essay collection that helped popularise a now-famous idea; sharp feminist criticism.
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Conformity and conflict
""Seeks to teach students the importance of culture and its influence on human life. By including examples of Western, North American cultures, the text makes cultural understanding and comparison mor