Bibliography for Design and Drawing All books can be found at the Kohler Art library at the call numbers listed. Check your handout: several are on reserve.
NC 730 P29 1983	Abstract Concepts of Drawing by Robert Patterson Clear Book describes drawing concepts. Includes many projects, which are illustrated.
N 7430 C44	An Artist’s Notebook, Techniques and Materials by Bernard Chaet Contains a good chapter describing different drawing media illustrated with examples by artists.
N +85 +P35 1990	Art and Design in Context by Frederick Palmer Thematic Ways to approach design with great color and black and white illustrations. Illustrations span many cultures and media.
N 70 A68	Art and Visual Perception by Rudolph Arnheim Thoroughly describes visual perception in human beings. Arnheim demonstrates his points using the disciplines of psychology, optics and history.
ND 1488 L52	Color and the Structural Sense by William Libby Discusses several different color theories. Describes the nature of light and the psychological characteristics of color perception.
NC 650 R58 4	Creative Drawing: Point and Line by Ernst Rottger and Dieter Klante Exhaustively describes and illustrates drawing techniques using point and line. Focuses on creative play and includes interesting illustrations of children’s art.
NK 1510 L38	Design Basics by David Lauer Very clearly written and very well illustrated with reproductions, although most of them are not in color. Extremely thorough.
NC 703 +F4 1962	Design Fundamentals by C. J. Feldsted Design problems and solutions. A dry book, but with a good chapter on perspective.
NC 730 E34 1989	Drawing on the Right side of the Brain by Betty Edwards Written for "non-artists," this book has good exercises. It demonstrates well the idea that good drawing is based on good seeing.
NC 650 +T43	Freehand Drawing - A Primer by Philip Thiel Well-written book detailing ways to draw from observation using only line.
ND 1283 A34 1974	Interaction of Color by Joseph Albers The classic book about how human beings perceive color. Presents different ways to observe color, and how the perception of color changes based on context. Please note the complete book with color illustrations is non-circulating in Kohler Art Library’s Oversize Room 260a (same call number), There is also a CD with accompanying booklet at ND 1489 A42 1994
NC 703 B67	Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design by Door Bothwell and Marlys Frey A whole book dedicated to negative space.
NC 750 D3 1984	Perspective Drawing Handbook by Joseph Amelio Covers nearly all aspects of perspective that a freehand artist needs.
NC 750 W27 1974	Principles of Perspective by Nigel Walters and John Broham Describes all sorts of systems of perspective, shadows projections, and theories of proportion (golden section, Fibanacci, etc.) illustrated, describes and explained in the language of geometry.
ND 1280 1813 1973 (oversize)	The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color by Johanes Itten Thoroughly illustrated with color charts, and with reproductions of artworks which are analyzed in terms of color theory. Describes color circles and types of color relationships.
NC 730 C45 1970	The Art of Drawing by Bernard Chaet Many drawing assignments. Many illustrations, both of famous artworks and of student responses to drawing assignments.
NC 740 G6 1977	The Art of Responsive drawing by Nathan Goldstein Textbook-like, with many clear exercises, illustrations and reproductions.
NC 730 N53 1975	The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides The (justifiably) classic text for (mostly) life drawing.
N 7430.5 W39	Ways of Seeing by John Berger This short book describes how people interpret "high"art, "low" art and other visual data (for example, advertising). Many reproductions and interesting things to say about interpreting art history.

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