Theory of art books

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Looking Together: Writers on Art

Looking Together: Writers on Art

Author: Rebecca Brown ,  Mary Jane Knecht
ISBN: 9780295988825
Format: Paperback
$50.03

The relationship between writers and artists has long been a collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to...  Read More >>

Baconian Reference Book: Commentarius Solutus

Baconian Reference Book: Commentarius Solutus

Author: Lochithea
ISBN: 9781440138447
Format: Paperback
$155.63

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Appropriation

Appropriation

Author: David Evans
ISBN: 9780262550703
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Important documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamp's readymades to feminist and...  Read More >>

Better Citizenship Through Art Training

Better Citizenship Through Art Training

Author: Minna McLeod Beck
ISBN: 9781103914876
Format: Paperback
$52.14

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Better Citizenship Through Art Training

Better Citizenship Through Art Training

Author: Minna McLeod Beck
ISBN: 9781103914920
Format: Hardback
$65.97

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Reality Through the Arts

Reality Through the Arts

Author: Dennis J Sporre (Elon University)
ISBN: 9780205681778
Format: Mixed media product
$294.62

<p>This package contains the following components: <p>-0136152953: MyHumanitiesKit <p>-0205660487: Reality Through...  Read More >>

Peter Iden Interviews: Fortunate to be an Artist

Peter Iden Interviews: Fortunate to be an Artist

Author: Ingrid Mossinger
ISBN: 9783866781740
Format: Hardback
$145.20

This large-format compilation brings together interviews between the respected Frankfurt art critic Peter Iden and...  Read More >>

Como Hablar de Arte A los Ninos

Como Hablar de Arte A los Ninos

Author: Francoise Barbe-Gall
ISBN: 9788496431423
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Anticipating how kids react to paintings by artists as diverse as Botticelli, Vermeer, Degas, Chagall, and Pollack,...  Read More >>

The Fragment – An Incomplete History

The Fragment – An Incomplete History

Author: . Tronzo
ISBN: 9780892369263
Format: Hardback
$132.00

A collection of essays on art history and criticism. The essays offer a meditation on distinctive moments in the...  Read More >>

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty

Author: Dave Hickey
ISBN: 9780226333182
Format: Hardback
$58.08

Deploying the artworks of Warhol, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Mapplethorpe and the writings of Ruskin, Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Color Workbook

Color Workbook

Author: Becky Koenig
ISBN: 9780205656394
Format: Paperback
$214.90

Color Workbook presents a wide-ranging overview of color theory and design combined with student activities that...  Read More >>

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance Linear Perspective Changed Our Vision of the Universe

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope: How Renaissance...

Author: Samuel Y. Edgerton
ISBN: 9780801447587
Format: Hardback
$180.84

Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious...  Read More >>

The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft

The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft

Author: Anne Friedberg
ISBN: 9780262512503
Format: Paperback
$50.03

From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on today's...  Read More >>

Writing About Art

Writing About Art

Author: Marjorie Munsterberg
ISBN: 9781441486240
Format: Paperback
$26.40

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Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art

Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio...

Author: James Elkins
ISBN: 9780981865454
Format: Paperback
$73.92

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Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony

Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony...

Author: Jane Blocker
ISBN: 9780816654772
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture...  Read More >>

Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony

Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of Testimony...

Author: Jane Blocker
ISBN: 9780816654765
Format: Hardback
$198.00

The act of bearing witness can reveal much, but what about the figure of the witness itself? As contemporary culture...  Read More >>

Voids: A Retrospective

Voids: A Retrospective

Author: Jean-Francois Chevrier ,  Jon Hendricks
ISBN: 9783037640364
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Edited by Matthieu Copeland, Clive Phillpot.  Read More >>

The Future of the Image

The Future of the Image

Author: Jacques Rancière ,  Gregory Elliott
ISBN: 9781844672974
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Develops a fresh concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically...  Read More >>

The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work

The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work

Author: Wouter Davidts ,  Kim Paice
ISBN: 9789078088295
Format: Paperback
$72.60

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Kunst Und Wissen in Der Moderne: Otto Kolleritsch Zum 75. Geburtstag

Kunst Und Wissen in Der Moderne: Otto Kolleritsch Zum...

Author: Andreas Dorschel ,  Uwe Steiner
ISBN: 9783205782933
Format: Hardback
$168.96

Die Kunst galt in Europa lange als kontemplativ und der Zeit entruckt, wahrend die Wissenschaft, wie Schopenhauer...  Read More >>

The Grid Book

The Grid Book

Author: Hannah B Higgins (Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago)
ISBN: 9780262512404
Format: Paperback
$95.00

Ten grids that changed the world: the emergence and evolution of the most prominent visual structure in Western...  Read More >>

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