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The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity

The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual...
Author: Henry Sussman ISBN: 9780804728423 Format: Hardback	$109.95
This text offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor... Read More >>

Aesthetics

Aesthetics
Author: Susan L. Feagin (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City) , Patrick Maynard (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario) ISBN: 9780192892751 Format: Paperback	$110.95
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The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism...
Author: Wendy Steiner ISBN: 9780226772240 Format: Paperback	$49.95
Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence,... Read More >>

England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste

England and its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste
Author: David Carrier , John Ruskin ISBN: 9789057012914 Format: Paperback	$81.99
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Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel

Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel
Author: Gary Shapiro ISBN: 9780520212350 Format: Paperback	$71.15
The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker.... Read More >>

Architecture and Cubism

Architecture and Cubism
Author: Eve Blau , Nancy J. Troy ISBN: 9780262024228 Format: Hardback	$211.20
A close look at the widely accepted but little scrutinized belief that cubism forged a vital link between avant-garde... Read More >>

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance...
Author: David Alan Brown , Peter Humfrey ISBN: 9780300073317 Format: Hardback	$184.80
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Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles

Invisible Colours: A Visual History of Titles
Author: Professor John C. Welchman ISBN: 9780300065305 Format: Hardback	$184.80
John Welchman offers a critical history of how and why modern artworks receive their titles. He shows that titles... Read More >>

Emotion and the Arts

Emotion and the Arts
Author: Hjort , Laver ISBN: 9780195111057 Format: Paperback	$84.95
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Thinking Through Aesthetics

Thinking Through Aesthetics
Author: Marilyn G. Stewart ISBN: 9780871923622 Format: Paperback	$54.31
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Art and Imago: Essays on Art as a Species of Autobiography

Art and Imago: Essays on Art as a Species of Autobiography...
Author: Seymour Howard ISBN: 9781899828029 Format: Hardback	$129.38
Professor Seymour Howard's publications over the last forty years have introduced many innovative approaches to... Read More >>

A Philosophy of Mass Art

A Philosophy of Mass Art
Author: Noel Carroll ISBN: 9780198711292 Format: Hardback	$145.00
Despite the fact that mass art provides the primary source of aesthetic experience for the majority of people, it... Read More >>

Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style

Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology...
Author: Wilhelm Worringer , Michael Bullock ISBN: 9781566631778 Format: Paperback	$30.95
Worringer's classic study argues that in historical periods of anxiety and uncertainty, man seeks to abstract objects... Read More >>

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa

Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical...
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o ISBN: 9780198183907 Format: Hardback	$148.95
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Social Theories of Art: A Critique

Social Theories of Art: A Critique
Author: Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK) ISBN: 9780333668962 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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Writings on Art and Literature

Writings on Art and Literature
Author: Sigmund Freud , Neil Hertz ISBN: 9780804729727 Format: Hardback	$109.95
This collection of Freud's writings on art and literature covers his his work on these subjects, in chronological... Read More >>

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing

Our Beautiful, Dry, and Distant Texts: Art History as...
Author: James Elkins ISBN: 9780271016306 Format: Hardback	$237.47
How do psychoanalytic, semiotic, deconstructive, and other interpretations represent works of art? The author suggests... Read More >>

Social Theories of Art: A Critique

Social Theories of Art: A Critique
Author: Ian Heywood (Lancaster University, UK) ISBN: 9780333668955 Format: Hardback	$280.00
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The Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections

The Grotesque in Art and Literature: Theological Reflections...
Author: James Luther Adams , Wilson Yates ISBN: 9780802842671 Format: Paperback	$79.20
The authors focus on the religious and theological significance of grotesque imagery in art and literature, exploring... Read More >>

Shadows and Enlightenment

Shadows and Enlightenment
Author: Michael Baxandall ISBN: 9780300072723 Format: Paperback	$71.28
This text draws on contemporary cognitive science, 18th-century theories of visual perception and art history to... Read More >>

Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context

Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context
Author: Stephen Melville , Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe ISBN: 9789057010316 Format: Hardback	$194.00
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A Higher Branch of the Art: Photographing the Fine Arts in England, 1839-80

A Higher Branch of the Art: Photographing the Fine Arts...
Author: Anthony J. Hamber ISBN: 9782884491433 Format: Hardback	$137.00
The study of an important area of history and photo historical studies, this reference pinpoints photography's significant... Read More >>

Art, Space and the City

Art, Space and the City
Author: Malcolm Miles ISBN: 9780415139434 Format: Paperback	$120.00
This book sees public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and place it within broader contexts of public... Read More >>

Art, Space and the City

Art, Space and the City
Author: Malcolm Miles ISBN: 9780415139427 Format: Hardback	$399.00
This book sees public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and place it within broader contexts of public... Read More >>

Writings on Art and Literature

Writings on Art and Literature
Author: Sigmund Freud , Neil Hertz ISBN: 9780804729734 Format: Paperback	$45.95
This collection of Freud's writings on art and literature covers his his work on these subjects, in chronological... Read More >>

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