Theory of art books

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The Art Spirit

The Art Spirit

Author: Robert Henri
ISBN: 9780465002634
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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War and the Cosmos in Picasso's Texts, 1936-1940

War and the Cosmos in Picasso's Texts, 1936-1940

Author: Lydia Csato Gasman
ISBN: 9780595399000
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Philosophy and Conceptual Art

Philosophy and Conceptual Art

Author: Peter Goldie (University of Manchester) ,  Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University)
ISBN: 9780199285556
Format: Hardback
$236.95

Fourteen prominent analytic philosophers engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind...  Read More >>

What is Art?: Conversation with Joseph Beuys

What is Art?: Conversation with Joseph Beuys

Author: Joseph Beuys ,  Volker Harlan
ISBN: 9781905570072
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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Dialogues in Diversity: Art from Marginal and Mainstream

Dialogues in Diversity: Art from Marginal and Mainstream...

Author: John K. Grande
ISBN: 9788890196072
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Inspired by a series of dialogues with artists, this work presents discussions with well known international artists...  Read More >>

Lectures on Art

Lectures on Art

Author: Washington Allston
ISBN: 9781428061491
Format: Paperback
$95.01

Edited by Richard Henry Dana Jr.  Read More >>

Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt

Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in...

Author: Paul Crowther (National University of Ireland Galway)
ISBN: 9780199210688
Format: Hardback
$212.00

What is art? Why should we value it? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. This book attempts to restore...  Read More >>

Lectures on Art

Lectures on Art

Author: Washington Allston
ISBN: 9781428061378
Format: Hardback
$110.85

Edited by Richard Henry Dana Jr.  Read More >>

Subjects and Objects: Art, Essentialism, and Abstraction

Subjects and Objects: Art, Essentialism, and Abstraction...

Author: Jeffrey Strayer
ISBN: 9789004157149
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Subjects and Objects provides the philosophical groundwork for the determination of the limits of Abstraction in...  Read More >>

Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion

Aby Warburg and the Image in Motion

Author: Philippe-Alain Michaud ,  Georges Didi-Huberman (Directeur d'études, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
ISBN: 9781890951405
Format: Paperback
$66.00

The purposeful discontinuities and juxtapositions of Aby Warburg's iconography and how they can be used to analyze...  Read More >>

Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study

Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study

Author: Paisley Livingston (University of Copenhagen and Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9780199204298
Format: Paperback
$107.95

With reference to examples from media, art forms, and traditions, this book demonstrates that insights into the...  Read More >>

Colors: Where They Come from etc.

Colors: Where They Come from etc.

Author: Anne Varichon
ISBN: 9780810992924
Format: Hardback
$85.80

Colour is one of the most basic means of human expression. This work presents a comprehensive history of colour:...  Read More >>

Art and Physics: Parallel Visions In Space, Time, And Light

Art and Physics: Parallel Visions In Space, Time, And...

Author: Leonard Shlain
ISBN: 9780061227974
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production

Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production

Author: Maruska Svasek
ISBN: 9780745317946
Format: Paperback
$61.95

An introduction to anthropological perspectives on art that links the production of art to political and cultural...  Read More >>

German Artists and Hitler's Mind: Avant-Garde Art in a Turbulent Era

German Artists and Hitler's Mind: Avant-Garde Art in...

Author: Wayne Andersen
ISBN: 9780972557320
Format: Hardback
$101.64

Insisting that German art is masculine and prone to violence, this book formulates an explanation for how artists...  Read More >>

Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production

Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production

Author: Maruska Svasek
ISBN: 9780745317953
Format: Hardback
$264.00

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Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945

Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination...

Author: Blake Stimson ,  Gregory Sholette
ISBN: 9780816644612
Format: Hardback
$221.76

""Don't start an art collective until you read this book."" --Guerrilla Girls ""Ever since Web 2.0 with its wikis,...  Read More >>

A Night at the Majestic

A Night at the Majestic

Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
ISBN: 9780571220090
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The most extraordinary dinner party of all time - the night Proust, Joyce, Picasso and Stravinsky all met.  Read More >>

Playback: Simulated Realities

Playback: Simulated Realities

Author: Robert Blackson ,  Sarah Cook
ISBN: 9783939583189
Format: Paperback
$65.74

An artist's approaches to the digital ersatz worlds developed in computer games.  Read More >>

New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century

New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century

Author: Jed Perl
ISBN: 9781400034659
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An art critic takes a panoramic look at art and culture in mid-20th century New York City, showing readers the solitude...  Read More >>

Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis

Too Beautiful to Picture: Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis...

Author: Elizabeth C. Mansfield
ISBN: 9780816647484
Format: Hardback
$150.00

An intriguing look at imitation in Western art from antiquity to the present. Few tales of artistic triumph can...  Read More >>

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