Theory of art books

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Kitsch and Art

Kitsch and Art

Author: Thomas Kulka
ISBN: 9780271015941
Format: Paperback
$89.63

What is kitsch? What is behind its appeal? More important, what is wrong with kitsch? Though central to our modern...  Read More >>

Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures

Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures...

Author: Peter Horne ,  Reina Lewis
ISBN: 9780415124683
Format: Paperback
$81.99

A comprehensive exploration of what constitutes a lesbian and gay artist and what differentiates them from their...  Read More >>

Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures

Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures...

Author: Peter Horne ,  Reina Lewis
ISBN: 9780415124676
Format: Hardback
$305.00

A comprehensive exploration of what constitutes a lesbian and gay artist and what differentiates them from their...  Read More >>

Visual Art Introductory Unit

Visual Art Introductory Unit

Author: Project Success Enrichment
ISBN: 9780787226428
Format: Spiral bound
$145.20

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Winckelmann and the Notion of Aesthetic Education

Winckelmann and the Notion of Aesthetic Education

Author: Jeffrey Morrison (Lecturer in German, Lecturer in German, St Patrick's College, County Kildare)
ISBN: 9780198159124
Format: Hardback
$178.95

This work deals with the process of aesthetic education, as defined by Winckelmann on the basis of his own experience...  Read More >>

The Beauty Of Gesture

The Beauty Of Gesture

Author: Catherine David
ISBN: 9781556432194
Format: Paperback
$34.19

"In this society in which the essential is generally considered incidental (which is reflected in the unbearable...  Read More >>

Theory Rules: Art As Theory / Theory As Art

Theory Rules: Art As Theory / Theory As Art

Author: Jody Berland ,  Will Straw
ISBN: 9780802076571
Format: Paperback
$74.99

This volume answers some important new questions about the points of intersection between theory and visual art....  Read More >>

Investigating Modern Art

Investigating Modern Art

Author: Liz Dawtrey ,  Paul Wood
ISBN: 9780300067972
Format: Paperback
$60.72

Providing an historical progression through the modern period, this study focuses on figures such as Picasso, Matisse,...  Read More >>

Theory Rules: Art as Theory/theory as Art

Theory Rules: Art as Theory/theory as Art

Author: Jody Berland ,  Will Straw
ISBN: 9780802007070
Format: Hardback
$184.80

This volume answers some important new questions about the points of intersection between theory and visual art....  Read More >>

Investigating Modern Art

Investigating Modern Art

Author: Liz Dawtrey ,  Paul Wood
ISBN: 9780300067965
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Artist and Audience

Artist and Audience

Author: Terence E. Grieder
ISBN: 9780697286925
Format: Paperback
$216.98

Aims to prepare the students to be intelligent participants in art. This book offers a historical survey of world...  Read More >>

Hendrik Petrus Berlage – Thoughts on Style, 1886–1909

Hendrik Petrus Berlage – Thoughts on Style, 1886–1909...

Author: . Berlage
ISBN: 9780892363346
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Hendrik Petrus Berlage, the Dutch architect and architectural philosopher, created a series of buildings and a body...  Read More >>

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary...

Author: Pierre Bourdieu ,  Susan Emanuel
ISBN: 9780804726276
Format: Paperback
$50.95

A study of Flaubert and the modern literary field.  Read More >>

Art in History/History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth Century Dutch Culture

Art in History/History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth...

Author: David Freedberg ,  Jan De Vries
ISBN: 9780892362011
Format: Hardback
$145.20

This series explores open questions at the intersection of art history and the humanities.Historians and art historians...  Read More >>

Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics 1873-1893

Empathy, Form and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics...

Author: Harry Francis Mallgrave ,  Eleftherios Ikonomou
ISBN: 9780892362608
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Six essays by various authors giving an overview of psychological aesthetics and 'kunstwissenschaft'.  Read More >>

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field

The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary...

Author: Pierre Bourdieu ,  Susan Emanuel
ISBN: 9780804725682
Format: Hardback
$122.95

A study of Flaubert and the modern literary field.  Read More >>

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power...

Author: Jo Anna Isaak
ISBN: 9780415080149
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The...  Read More >>

The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century

The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture...

Author: Marsha Meskimmon
ISBN: 9781857270181
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A debate on the work of women who have used self-portraiture in the visual arts to challenge male-centred definitions...  Read More >>

The Art of Light + Space

The Art of Light + Space

Author: Jan Butterfield ,  Jim McHugh
ISBN: 9780789201713
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Written by the foremost authority on the subject and based on more than two decades of research, The Art of Light...  Read More >>

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter

Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power...

Author: Jo Anna Isaak
ISBN: 9780415080156
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The...  Read More >>

The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics

The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History...

Author: Martha Woodmansee ,  Arthur Coleman Danto
ISBN: 9780231106016
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture and literature...  Read More >>

The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art

The Gift of Beauty: The Good as Art

Author: Stephen David Ross
ISBN: 9780791430088
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist Painting

High Art: Charles Baudelaire and the Origins of Modernist...

Author: David Carrier
ISBN: 9780271015279
Format: Hardback
$189.95

The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. ""High Art"" relates...  Read More >>

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