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The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings

The Purloined Clinic: Selected Writings
Author: Janet Malcolm ISBN: 9780679748106 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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Solitude-Art and Symbolism in the National Basque Monument

Solitude-Art and Symbolism in the National Basque Monument...
Author: Carmelo Urza ISBN: 9780874172058 Format: Hardback	$71.50
Examines the arguments of those who favored the selection of a figurative, traditional symbol and those who preferred... Read More >>

Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of the Avant-Garde

Making Theory/Constructing Art: On the Authority of...
Author: Daniel Herwitz ISBN: 9780226328911 Format: Hardback	$163.95
This text examines and critiques the norms, assumptions, historical conditions and institutions that have framed... Read More >>

The Social Production of Art

The Social Production of Art
Author: Janet Wolff ISBN: 9780333597064 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts

Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the...
Author: Ellen Handler Spitz ISBN: 9780231072977 Format: Paperback	$59.95
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Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-portrait and Other Ruins

Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-portrait and Other Ruins...
Author: Pascale-Anne Brault , Jacques Derrida ISBN: 9780226143088 Format: Paperback	$105.60
An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers... Read More >>

Toward a Philosophy of the Act

Toward a Philosophy of the Act
Author: M. M. Bakhtin , Vadim Liapunov ISBN: 9780292708051 Format: Paperback	$46.99
The earliest major work of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin Read More >>

Insights, Discoveries, Surprises: Drawing from the Model

Insights, Discoveries, Surprises: Drawing from the Model...
Author: Ghitta Caiserman-Roth , Rhoda Cohen ISBN: 9780773509931 Format: Hardback	$224.40
Insights, Discoveries, Surprises is an intimate revelation of drawing and the creative process. Ghitta Caiserman-Roth... Read More >>

Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-portrait and Other Ruins

Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-portrait and Other Ruins...
Author: Pascale-Anne Brault , Jacques Derrida ISBN: 9780226143071 Format: Hardback	$269.28
An exploration of issues of vision, blindness, self-representation, and their relation to drawing, which offers... Read More >>

American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life

American Genre Painting: The Politics of Everyday Life...
Author: Elizabeth Johns ISBN: 9780300057546 Format: Paperback	$105.60
Probing beneath the ""everyday blissfulness"" of American genre painting, Johns analyzes various works and reveals... Read More >>

Art and Embodiment: From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness

Art and Embodiment: From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness...
Author: Paul Crowther (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Jacobs University, Bremen) ISBN: 9780198239963 Format: Hardback	$185.95
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The Garden as an Art

The Garden as an Art
Author: Mara Miller ISBN: 9780791413784 Format: Paperback	$63.23
In this book Miller challenges contemporary aesthetic theory to include gardens in an expanded definition of art.... Read More >>

Painting as Model

Painting as Model
Author: Yve-Alain Bois (Institute For Advanced Study) ISBN: 9780262521802 Format: Paperback	$110.00
Essays that seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse Read More >>

Color Harmonies

Color Harmonies
Author: Augusto Garau , Nicola Bruno ISBN: 9780226281964 Format: Paperback	$56.95
In Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception... Read More >>

Color Harmonies

Color Harmonies
Author: Augusto Garau , Nicola Bruno ISBN: 9780226281957 Format: Hardback	$163.95
In Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception... Read More >>

The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic Consumer Behavior in Popular Culture and Works of Art

The Semiotics of Consumption: Interpreting Symbolic...
Author: Morris B. Holbrook , Elizabeth C. Hirschman ISBN: 9783110134919 Format: Hardback	$356.40
No detailed description available for ""The Semiotics of Consumption"". Read More >>

Art and Engagement

Art and Engagement
Author: Arnold Berleant ISBN: 9781566390842 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930

Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930...
Author: Kathleen D. McCarthy ISBN: 9780226555843 Format: Paperback	$61.95
Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women... Read More >>

Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts

Love Beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts...
Author: Rudolph Binion ISBN: 9780814711897 Format: Hardback	$193.00
Explores the eroticization of death in the literature, art, and music of the nineteenth century, and in the popular... Read More >>

The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature

The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and...
Author: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France) ISBN: 9780745609874 Format: Paperback	$36.95
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Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology

Poussin's Paintings: A Study in Art-Historical Methodology...
Author: David Carrier ISBN: 9780271008165 Format: Hardback	$168.83
This is a critical discussion of the traditional strategies of Poussin scholarship and an evaluation of the status... Read More >>

Abject, America: A Objecto, a America

Abject, America: A Objecto, a America
Author: Martin Avillez , C. Benamou ISBN: 9781882791002 Format: Paperback	$23.76
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Art and the Public Sphere

Art and the Public Sphere
Author: W. J. T. Mitchell ISBN: 9780226532110 Format: Paperback	$55.44
What is the fate of art in an age of publicity? How has the role of traditional public (i.e., government-owned)... Read More >>

Teaching in the Elementary School: Fostering Diversity Through Art Education

Teaching in the Elementary School: Fostering Diversity...
Author: Sharon L House ISBN: 9780536583161 Format: Paperback	$357.72
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Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion

Disfiguring: Art, Architecture, Religion
Author: Mark C. Taylor ISBN: 9780226791326 Format: Hardback	$138.60
Disfiguring is the first sustained interpretation of the deep but often hidden links among twentieth-century art,... Read More >>

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