Theory of art books

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Art, Truth and Time: Essays in Art

Art, Truth and Time: Essays in Art

Author: Sister Anselma Scollard, OSB
ISBN: 9781912147533
Format: Hardback
$31.05

'These essays defend the nature of art in its most exalted form, so that art is seen clearly ascending to the condition...  Read More >>

The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners...

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9780353639867
Format: Paperback
$51.62

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Drawings in Charcoal and Crayon for the Use of Students and Schools

Drawings in Charcoal and Crayon for the Use of Students...

Author: Frank Fowler
ISBN: 9780353585287
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States

Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental...

Author: Rebecca Bedell
ISBN: 9780691153209
Format: Hardback
$79.99

A bold new view of sentimental art's significance in American visual culture from the eighteenth to the twentieth...  Read More >>

Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820

Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European...

Author: Thomas Crow
ISBN: 9780691181646
Format: Hardback
$72.99

How social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners...

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9780353639874
Format: Hardback
$82.67

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Drawings in Charcoal and Crayon for the Use of Students and Schools

Drawings in Charcoal and Crayon for the Use of Students...

Author: Frank Fowler
ISBN: 9780353585294
Format: Hardback
$72.32

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Create: (6 X 9) Lined Notebook Journal Composition Book Gift for Writers Artists Makers Creatives

Create: (6 X 9) Lined Notebook Journal Composition Book...

Author: Wayfarer Journals ,  Jessica Arden
ISBN: 9781791544997
Format: Paperback
$21.09

You are a creator of beautiful things. The world needs your art. This is the journal you need to plan your projects,...  Read More >>

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure...

Author: Arthur Wesley Dow
ISBN: 9780353432055
Format: Paperback
$43.86

Unabridged and fully illustrated.) Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential...  Read More >>

The Theory and Practice of Teaching Art

The Theory and Practice of Teaching Art

Author: Arthur Wesley Dow
ISBN: 9780353064454
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Dwarf in the Chess - Machine Benjamin's Hidden Doctrine

The Dwarf in the Chess - Machine Benjamin's Hidden Doctrine...

Author: Lieven De Cauter
ISBN: 9789462084971
Format: Paperback
$158.40

The Dwarf in the Chess Machine offers a study of the tension between materialism and theology in the work of the...  Read More >>

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers

Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure...

Author: Arthur Wesley Dow
ISBN: 9780353432062
Format: Hardback
$72.32

Develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between...  Read More >>

Raume Des Sehens: Giusto De' Menabuoi Und Die Wissenskultur Des Trecento in Padua

Raume Des Sehens: Giusto De' Menabuoi Und Die Wissenskultur...

Author: Peter Scholz
ISBN: 9783942810456
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Giusto de' Menabuoi (um 13201391), einer der bedeutendsten Maler des spaten 14. Jahrhunderts, blieb doch auaerhalb...  Read More >>

How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change

How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change

Author: Al-An (Allan) deSouza
ISBN: 9781478000471
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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The Theory and Practice of Teaching Art

The Theory and Practice of Teaching Art

Author: Arthur Wesley Dow
ISBN: 9780353064461
Format: Hardback
$72.32

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change

How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change

Author: Al-An (Allan) deSouza
ISBN: 9781478000365
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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How To Have Good Ideas: A system for smart, extraordinary thinking

How To Have Good Ideas: A system for smart, extraordinary...

Author: Dave Birss
ISBN: 9781473692152
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A tangible approach to building the intangible skill of creativity, offering a simple new theory about how to have...  Read More >>

The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners...

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9780344915611
Format: Hardback
$82.67

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Landscapes: John Berger on Art

Landscapes: John Berger on Art

Author: John Berger
ISBN: 9781784785857
Format: Paperback
$32.99

What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.  Read More >>

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance...

Author: Amber Jamilla Musser
ISBN: 9781479807031
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla...  Read More >>

Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s

Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science...

Author: David Cateforis ,  Steven Duval
ISBN: 9780520296596
Format: Hardback
$107.95

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Conceptual Blending and the Arts: An Analysis of Michał Batory’s Posters

Conceptual Blending and the Arts: An Analysis of Michał...

Author: Adam Tomasz Warchoł
ISBN: 9781527516625
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book presents an analysis of how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice,...  Read More >>

Ways of Following

Ways of Following

Author: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi
ISBN: 9781785420597
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Ways of Following offers rare, intimate access to artists' studios and exhibitions, where art processes thrive in...  Read More >>

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