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Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design

Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design...
Author: Saul Ostrow , Susan King Roth ISBN: 9789057013119 Format: Paperback	$81.99
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Picturing Science, Producing Art

Picturing Science, Producing Art
Author: Peter Galison , Caroline A. Jones ISBN: 9780415919128 Format: Paperback	$105.00
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The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America

The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts...
Author: Daniel Belgrad ISBN: 9780226041889 Format: Hardback	$81.84
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Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism

Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of...
Author: Scott Durham ISBN: 9780804730716 Format: Hardback	$39.95
Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously... Read More >>

Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances

Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders,...
Author: Susan Rubin Suleiman , S R SULEIMAN ISBN: 9780822322153 Format: Paperback	$47.95
Is exile a falling away from a source of creativity associated with the wholeness of home and one's own language,... Read More >>

Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances

Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders,...
Author: Susan Rubin Suleiman , S R SULEIMAN ISBN: 9780822321873 Format: Hardback	$176.95
A major historical phenomenon of our century, exile has been a focal point for reflections about individual and... Read More >>

Art In America

Art In America
Author: Aleister Crowley ISBN: 9781869928049 Format: Paperback	$7.74
Written for The English Review in 1913, this essay was much criticised by contemporary American artists for its... Read More >>

Social Theories of Art: A Critique

Social Theories of Art: A Critique
Author: Ian Heywood ISBN: 9780814735312 Format: Paperback	$64.99
This text explores the tension between the theory and practice of art. It critically examines influential social... Read More >>

Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism

Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of...
Author: Scott Durham ISBN: 9780804733366 Format: Paperback	$39.95
Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously... Read More >>

Social Theories of Art: A Critique

Social Theories of Art: A Critique
Author: Ian Heywood , Paulin Kola ISBN: 9780814733721 Format: Hardback	$198.00
This text explores the tension between the theory and practice of art. It critically examines influential social... Read More >>

The Biological Origins of Art

The Biological Origins of Art
Author: Nancy E. Aiken ISBN: 9780275959012 Format: Hardback	$131.00
Answers the question ""how does art evoke emotion?"" and explains how art is a powerful factor in human social behavior.... Read More >>

Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews

Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews
Author: Michael Fried , Michael Fried ISBN: 9780226263199 Format: Paperback	$72.95
This volume contains twenty-seven pieces of Michael Fried's art criticism, originally published between 1962 and... Read More >>

In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity

In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity
Author: Terry Smith ISBN: 9780226764122 Format: Paperback	$85.80
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In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity

In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinity
Author: Terry Smith ISBN: 9780226764115 Format: Hardback	$211.20
This collection of essays explores the representation of heterosexual masculinity embodied in modernist art. It... Read More >>

Graphic Design Sources

Graphic Design Sources
Author: Kenneth J. Hiebert , Armin Hofmann ISBN: 9780300074611 Format: Hardback	$145.20
Kenneth J. Hiebert extends the approach he used in his previous book, Graphic Design Processes, showing how inventive... 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 , Joseph Masheck ISBN: 9780520207493 Format: Paperback	$70.95
Develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between... Read More >>

Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage

Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage...
Author: Grant H. Kester , G. Kester ISBN: 9780822320951 Format: Paperback	$43.95
Bringing together essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of ""Afterimage"" - one of the most... Read More >>

Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage

Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage...
Author: Grant H. Kester , G. Kester ISBN: 9780822320814 Format: Hardback	$161.95
Bringing together essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of ""Afterimage"" - one of the most... Read More >>

Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art, Culture, and Resistance

Interventions and Provocations: Conversations on Art,...
Author: Glenn Harper ISBN: 9780791437261 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Landscapes of the New Worlds Cal 9

Landscapes of the New Worlds Cal 9
Author: National Gallery of Australia ISBN: 9780000110794 Format: Mixed media product	$22.00
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Simplicity and Complexity: Pondering Literature, Science, and Painting

Simplicity and Complexity: Pondering Literature, Science,...
Author: Floyd Fenly Merrell ISBN: 9780472108602 Format: Hardback	$211.20
A fascinating exploration of the connections among science, art, and literature Read More >>

Kant after Duchamp

Kant after Duchamp
Author: Thierry de Duve (Stanford University) ISBN: 9780262540940 Format: Paperback	$110.75
A collection of essays around a central thesis with implications for the history of the avant-gardes. The author... Read More >>

Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts

Images of Excellence: Plato's Critique of the Arts
Author: Christopher Janaway (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London) ISBN: 9780198237921 Format: Paperback	$76.95
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Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines

Color Vision: Perspectives from Different Disciplines...
Author: Werner G. K. Backhaus , Reinhold Kliegl ISBN: 9783110161007 Format: Hardback	$406.56
No detailed description available for ""Color Vision"". Read More >>

The Pleasure of Beholding

The Pleasure of Beholding
Author: Eulalia Bosch ISBN: 9788489698314 Format: Paperback	$66.00
In The Pleasure of Beholding, Eulaia Bosch proposes to look aloud at art and the experience of visiting a museum.... Read More >>

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