TITLE: learning geometry for artists?
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: In highschool we learned geometry separate from algebra, all with the same teacher.  I would get 100% in geometry and failing grades in algebra.  I later read in the arts and now have a PHd in psychology.  I am from a family of artists and find my drawings and etchings tend towards repeated patterns and symetry.  I recently started reading King of Infinite Space by Siobhen Roberts, a biography of Donald Coxeter.  It is an excellent book and has rekindled a curiosity about geometry.  Would you recommend I read Coxeter's books or vis there another route for someone who is interested in learning more geometry but still wanting to avoid algebre?

REPLY [3 votes]: Why not judge for yourself what you like or not?
Two classics :   

Hilbert (1932) Geometry and the Imagination 
Coxeter (1967) Geometry Revisited

More recent :

Mumford (2006) Indra's pearls The vision of Felix Klein
(a very nice book with some algebra...)
Ebert (2003) Texturing & Modeling - A procedural approach
(a personal choice for the Worlds we may create using a computer...)

A list at Amazon Geometry and Beyond.