Typical Texts

Unless you are taking art history there are no real typical texts in art. When I'm making art I look at everything: works by other artists, museums or galleries, large glossy art books with beautiful pictures, art magazines such as Art News, Studio Arts, Paper, Surface Design Journal, American Craft, Architectural Digest and sometimes archeology books on ceramics and textiles. Really, I think I will need to establish a class library and reference many different art books. Gardners is usually the standard art history text but so much in art history that still isn't covered. Of course there are so many visual references around us such as logos and advertisements. I guess really there aren't any typical texts for a general art class.