Theory of art books

Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School advocates art, craft and design as useful, critical, transforming,...  Read More >>

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The teaching program of Frank J. Reilly consisted of communicating an accumulation of knowledge and skills beginning...  Read More >>

Learn how to turn your artistic skill into a successful home-based business! Create unique art programs for all...  Read More >>

Uses the writing of Freud, Lacan, the Surrealists, and Roland Barthes to elaborate a theory of art beyond the pleasure...  Read More >>

Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School advocates art, craft and design as useful, critical, transforming,...  Read More >>

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The fourteen essays in this collection were drawn from papers presented at the annual conference of the American...  Read More >>

This is a book about the transmission of ideas, about art with a purpose - bringing people together who cannot speak...  Read More >>

Going beyond the 'blackness' of black art to examine the integrative and interdisciplinary practices of Kara Walker,...  Read More >>

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Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese  Read More >>

Philosophical Perspectives on Art presents a series of essays devoted to two of the most fundamental topics in the...  Read More >>

Reveals the history of naked portraiture comparing artworks and photographs.  Read More >>

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Combines the viewpoint of an art historian with that of artist and seeker to probe the connection between the crop...  Read More >>

"From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the ""Very Interesting People"" series provides biographies of Britain's...  Read More >>

The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with...  Read More >>

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CONTENTS: Preface Lecture I: The Discovery and Application of Art Lecture II: The Accumulation and Distribution...  Read More >>

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In 1848, seven inexperienced young artists banded together to form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, one of the first...  Read More >>

Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures  Read More >>