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Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art

Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in...

Author: Grant H. Kester
ISBN: 9780520238398
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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Study Guide for Fleming's Arts and Ideas, 10th

Study Guide for Fleming's Arts and Ideas, 10th

Author: Mary Marien ,  William Fleming
ISBN: 9780534613877
Format: Paperback
$108.11

New addition to the supplement package! This Study Guide helps students comprehend and learn the material through...  Read More >>

A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour

A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of...

Author: Ian Paterson
ISBN: 9781854183750
Format: Paperback
$129.23

This dictionary is a treasury of colour words and phrase, it is a comprehensive resource for exploring every aspect...  Read More >>

Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art

Author: Penny Florence
ISBN: 9781581153132
Format: Paperback
$42.95

This interdisciplinary study of contemporary art and critical theory seeks to find new universal meaning in today's...  Read More >>

The Aesthetic Function of Art

The Aesthetic Function of Art

Author: Gary Iseminger
ISBN: 9780801439704
Format: Hardback
$108.11

How can we understand art and its impact? Gary Iseminger argues that the function of the practice of art and the...  Read More >>

Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art

Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in...

Author: Grant H. Kester
ISBN: 9780520238381
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science

Things that Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science...

Author: Lorraine J. Daston (Max Planck Institute for History of Science)
ISBN: 9781890951436
Format: Hardback
$97.55

Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge.  Read More >>

Metamorphosis: Creative Imagination in Fine Arts Between Life-Projects and Human Aesthetic Aspirations

Metamorphosis: Creative Imagination in Fine Arts Between...

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
ISBN: 9781402017094
Format: Hardback
$683.76

Investigates the various proportions between the vital significance of the constructivism of life and a specifically...  Read More >>

Creating Islands of Excellence: Progress Reports from the Arts in Education Field

Creating Islands of Excellence: Progress Reports from...

Author: Carol Fineberg
ISBN: 9780325006031
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean

An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean

Author: Tacita Dean ,  Roger Malbert
ISBN: 9781853322471
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Art beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image

Art beyond Representation: The Performative Power of...

Author: Barbara Bolt
ISBN: 9781850434108
Format: Hardback
$282.48

Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze...  Read More >>

The Appreciation of Pictures a Handbook

The Appreciation of Pictures a Handbook

Author: Russell Sturgis
ISBN: 9781417941742
Format: Paperback
$89.63

1904. The Epoch of Primitive Charm; The Epoch of Early Triumph; The Epoch of Achievement; The Epoch of Splendor;...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives

Psychoanalysis and Art: Kleinian Perspectives

Author: Donald Meltzer ,  Sandra Gosso
ISBN: 9781855759688
Format: Paperback
$124.00

This essential edition brings together a collection of classic papers from key figures in Kleinian and post-Kleinian...  Read More >>

The Artist's Quest of Inspiration

The Artist's Quest of Inspiration

Author: Peggy Hadden
ISBN: 9781581153583
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Inside The Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York

Inside The Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists...

Author: Mel Bochner ,  Janine Antoni
ISBN: 9780916365707
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about...  Read More >>

Art of the Avant-Gardes

Art of the Avant-Gardes

Author: Steve Edwards ,  Paul Wood
ISBN: 9780300102307
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Discussing the development of modern art in the first third of the 20th century, this volume opens with an essay...  Read More >>

Art of the Avant-gardes

Art of the Avant-gardes

Author: Paul Wood ,  Steve Edwards
ISBN: 9780300101416
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Discussing the development of modern art in the first third of the 20th century, this volume opens with an essay...  Read More >>

Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume I (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume I (with CD-ROM and...

Author: Mary Marien (Syracuse University) ,  William Fleming (Professor Emeritus, late of University of Syracuse)
ISBN: 9780534613822
Format: Mixed media product
$424.91

A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities...  Read More >>

Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume 2 (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Fleming's Arts and Ideas, Volume 2 (with CD-ROM and...

Author: Mary Marien (Syracuse University) ,  William Fleming (Professor Emeritus, late of University of Syracuse)
ISBN: 9780534613839
Format: Mixed media product
$424.91

A top-seller since it first published in 1955, FLEMING'S ARTS and IDEAS chronologically explores a breadth of humanities...  Read More >>

A Joy for Ever

A Joy for Ever

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9781410215949
Format: Paperback
$39.57

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

Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity

Art's Prospect: The Challenge of Tradition in an Age...

Author: Roger Kimball
ISBN: 9781566635103
Format: Paperback
$24.95

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Fleming's Arts and Ideas (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Fleming's Arts and Ideas (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)...

Author: Mary Marien (Syracuse University) ,  William Fleming (Professor Emeritus, late of University of Syracuse)
ISBN: 9780534613716
Format: Mixed media product
$488.27

Chronologically explores a breadth of humanities topics from antiquity to the present. New author Mary Warner Marien...  Read More >>

Open Systems

Open Systems

Author: Joke Brouwer
ISBN: 9789056624231
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Oponthoud/Delay

Oponthoud/Delay

Author:
ISBN: 9789056623999
Format: Paperback
$36.22

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