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Voices Of Color

Voices Of Color

Author: Phoebe Farris-Dufrene
ISBN: 9781573925860
Format: Hardback
$150.43

Presents a collection of essays on an array of subjects by activists of colour in the Freedom Socialist Party and...  Read More >>

Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth...

Author: Allienne R. Becker
ISBN: 9780313297250
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture....  Read More >>

The Photographic Paradigm

The Photographic Paradigm

Author: Annette W. Balkema ,  Henk Slager
ISBN: 9789042001879
Format: Hardback
$308.88

This issue investigates the meaning of photographic image for contemporary art. In Malraux' dream, photography offers...  Read More >>

Is There Truth in Art?

Is There Truth in Art?

Author: Herman Rapaport
ISBN: 9780801483530
Format: Paperback
$108.11

The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It...  Read More >>

Is There Truth in Art?

Is There Truth in Art?

Author: Herman Rapaport
ISBN: 9780801432750
Format: Hardback
$382.80

The question posed by Herman Rapaport, in the title of this book, is intended both seriously and ironically. It...  Read More >>

The Poetics of Perspective

The Poetics of Perspective

Author: James Elkins
ISBN: 9780801483790
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Perspective has been a divided subject, orphaned among various disciplines from philosophy to gardening. In the...  Read More >>

The Languages of Landscape

The Languages of Landscape

Author: Mark Roskill
ISBN: 9780271015538
Format: Hardback
$292.91

This work employs a fresh approach to understanding Western landscape art, by linking the concerns of its creators...  Read More >>

Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value

Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value

Author: Robert Stecker
ISBN: 9780271015965
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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Touched With Fire

Touched With Fire

Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
ISBN: 9780684831831
Format: Paperback
$38.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context

Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context

Author: Stephen Melville ,  Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
ISBN: 9789057010217
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Lessons in Beauty: Art and Adult Education

Lessons in Beauty: Art and Adult Education

Author: B Van Gent
ISBN: 9780820432717
Format: Paperback
$94.91

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Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art: Expanded with an Original Docudrama

Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art: Expanded with an...

Author: Gilbert J. Rose
ISBN: 9780823683192
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Text into Image: Image into Text

Text into Image: Image into Text

Author: Jeff Morrison ,  Florian Krobb
ISBN: 9789042001527
Format: Hardback
$541.20

Text into Image: Image into Text is a truly interdisciplinary publication. Whilst all of the contributions focus...  Read More >>

Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis

Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis...

Author: Whitney Davis
ISBN: 9780271015248
Format: Paperback
$118.67

The 12 essays collected in this work explore ""replication"" in archaeology, art history and psychoanalysis - the...  Read More >>

Color Codes

Color Codes

Author: Charles A. Riley
ISBN: 9780874517422
Format: Paperback
$79.07

""The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to...  Read More >>

In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture

In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture...

Author: Victor Burgin
ISBN: 9780520202993
Format: Paperback
$55.95

Explores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon...  Read More >>

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body

An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism: The Body

Author: George Elder, Ph.D.
ISBN: 9781570620966
Format: Hardback
$330.00

The Buddha's footprint, the eye of Horus Jacob's wounded thigh - these and other artefacts carved, painted and sculpted,...  Read More >>

Essays on the Nature of Art

Essays on the Nature of Art

Author: Eliot Deutsch
ISBN: 9780791431122
Format: Paperback
$44.75

In this new book by the author of ""Religion and Spirituality"", Eliot Deutsch argues that art not only enjoys a...  Read More >>

What Is Art?

What Is Art?

Author: L.N. Tolstoy ,  Aylmer Maude
ISBN: 9780872202955
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Reprint. Originally published: London: Bristol Classical Press, 1994.  Read More >>

From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political Conceptions

From Art to Politics: How Artistic Creations Shape Political...

Author: Murray Edelman
ISBN: 9780226184012
Format: Paperback
$46.95

In this book, Edelman continues his quest to understand the influence of perception on the political process by...  Read More >>

Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art

Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science...

Author: Arthur I. Miller
ISBN: 9780387946719
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Since the Enlightenment, science has been seen as an objective, true method of explanation for the physical and...  Read More >>

The Duchamp Effect

The Duchamp Effect

Author: Martha Buskirk ,  Mignon Nixon (Professor of Art History, University College of London)
ISBN: 9780262522175
Format: Paperback
$71.28

This expanded edition of the Autumn 1994 special issue of the journal ""October"", is an investigation of the historical...  Read More >>

The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century

The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of...

Author: Hal Foster (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780262561075
Format: Paperback
$84.35

Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and...  Read More >>

Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image

Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric...

Author: Michael Ann Holly
ISBN: 9780801483028
Format: Paperback
$81.50

Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product...  Read More >>

Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric of the Image

Past Looking: Historical Imagination and the Rhetoric...

Author: Michael Ann Holly
ISBN: 9780801432095
Format: Hardback
$246.50

Michael Ann Holly asserts that historical interpretation of the pictorial arts is always the intellectual product...  Read More >>

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