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Books like Concerning the Spiritual in Art
The best books like Concerning the Spiritual in Art are The Artist's Way, The Creative Habit, and Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees. Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky is about abstract art, color theory, spiritual experience. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Artist's Way
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Julia Cameron · Self-help
The Artist's Way is Julia Cameron's twelve-week program for recovering and developing creative ability, originally published in 1992 and still widely used in studio groups and classrooms.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The Creative Habit
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Twyla Tharp · Self-help
The Creative Habit is legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp's account of how creativity works in practice — not as inspiration but as habit, discipline, and preparation.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
Lawrence Weschler · Biography
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is Lawrence Weschler's extended portrait of Robert Irwin, the California artist who began his career as an abstract expressionist painter and progressively dismantled every element of conventional art-making — frame, canvas, pigment, discrete object — until he was working with pure perception itself.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The Courage to Create
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Rollo May · Philosophy
The Courage to Create is Rollo May's sustained argument that creativity is not a talent but an act of courage — specifically, the courage to encounter reality directly, to bring something new into the world against the resistance of both the external environment and one's own anxiety.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig · Philosophy
Robert Pirsig's 1974 book is structured as a cross-country motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California, narrated by a father traveling with his young son Chris.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - The New Typography
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Jan Tschichold · Philosophy
The New Typography, published in German in 1928 as Die neue Typographie, is Jan Tschichold's manifesto for a modernist approach to printed communication.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - Towards a New Architecture
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Le Corbusier · Philosophy
Published in French in 1923 as Vers une architecture, this is one of the most influential and most contested manifestos in the history of design.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
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Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques
Valérie Filiou · Self-help
Abstract Painting is a practical handbook for painters who want to move beyond representation and learn to work with color, form, and gesture on their own terms.
Both dig into color theory.
Read the summary → - Bauhaus
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Magdalena Droste · History
Magdalena Droste's Bauhaus is the standard illustrated history of the school that ran in Germany from 1919 to 1933 and produced some of the most durable ideas in twentieth-century design, architecture, and art education.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs · History
Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the standard reference text for the history of visual communication, covering the development of writing and printed images from prehistoric cave markings through the digital revolution.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein · Memoir
The Autobiography of Alice B.
Both dig into modernism.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
A kindred philosophy read.
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Books like Concerning the Spiritual in Art: quick answers
What are the best books like Concerning the Spiritual in Art?
The best books like Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky are The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, The Courage to Create by Rollo May, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Concerning the Spiritual in Art, such as abstract art, color theory, spiritual experience.
What should I read after Concerning the Spiritual in Art?
A natural next read after Concerning the Spiritual in Art is The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. A kindred philosophy read. Other strong choices are The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, The Courage to Create by Rollo May.
What books are similar to Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky?
Concerning the Spiritual in Art centers on abstract art, color theory, spiritual experience. Books with a similar feel include The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler, The Courage to Create by Rollo May, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig, The New Typography by Jan Tschichold — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
