Theory of art books

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Arts for Older Adults: An Enhancement of Life

Arts for Older Adults: An Enhancement of Life

Author: Donald H. Hoffman
ISBN: 9780130481825
Format: Hardback
$127.95

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Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the World

Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the World...

Author: Burton Raffel
ISBN: 9780271027289
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Artists All is a spirited defense--- against specialization, materialism, and relative philistinism of the contemporary...  Read More >>

The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change

The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change...

Author: Robert Hughes
ISBN: 9780500275825
Format: Paperback
$65.99

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American Studies in Black and White: Selected Essays

American Studies in Black and White: Selected Essays...

Author: Sidney Kaplan ,  Allan D. Austin
ISBN: 9780870234699
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The late Sidney Kaplan researched the African-American contributions to the national culture that stimulated the...  Read More >>

Surrealism and Communism: The Early Years: Preface by Pierre Naville

Surrealism and Communism: The Early Years: Preface by...

Author: Alan Rose ,  Pierre Naville
ISBN: 9780820413846
Format: Hardback
$174.11

Transform the world' said Marx. Change life' said Rimbaud. The Surrealists insisted that these two slogans could...  Read More >>

The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response

The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory...

Author: David Freedberg
ISBN: 9780226261461
Format: Paperback
$70.95

""This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves...  Read More >>

Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art

Technique Anglaise: Current Trends in British Art

Author: Andrew Renton ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780500973967
Format: Hardback
$52.67

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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

Author: Stephen Nachmanovitch
ISBN: 9780874776317
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Discusses the inner sources of spontaneous creation, explains how to learn the skills of improvisation, and suggests...  Read More >>

Definitions of Art

Definitions of Art

Author: Stephen Davies
ISBN: 9780801497940
Format: Paperback
$59.50

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Definitions of Art

Definitions of Art

Author: Stephen Davies
ISBN: 9780801425684
Format: Hardback
$382.80

In the last thirty years, work in analytic philosophy of art has flourished, and it has given rise to considerably...  Read More >>

The Boston Art Club: Exhibition Record, 1873-1909

The Boston Art Club: Exhibition Record, 1873-1909

Author: Janice Chadbourne
ISBN: 9780932087188
Format: Hardback
$168.96

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Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History of Spatial Illusion in Painting

Changing Images of Pictorial Space: A History of Spatial...

Author: William V. Dunning
ISBN: 9780815625087
Format: Paperback
$40.70

This is a history of one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art. It traces the evolution...  Read More >>

Images of Older People in Western Art and Society

Images of Older People in Western Art and Society

Author: Herbert C. Covey
ISBN: 9780275934354
Format: Hardback
$140.00

How older people have been perceived during various periods of history from the Middle Ages to the 19th century...  Read More >>

Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science

Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science...

Author: Donald Preziosi
ISBN: 9780300049831
Format: Paperback
$53.95

An overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history which refutes the image...  Read More >>

The Art of Seeing: An Introduction of the Aesthetic Encounter

The Art of Seeing: An Introduction of the Aesthetic...

Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ,  Rick E. Robinson
ISBN: 9780892361564
Format: Paperback
$79.20

What is the nature of the aesthetic experience? Is it the same for everyone? It is possible to facilitate its occurrence?...  Read More >>

Art Education and Human Development

Art Education and Human Development

Author: . Gardner
ISBN: 9780892361793
Format: Paperback
$34.95

The production and appreciation of art involves thought processes that have excluded from traditional measures of...  Read More >>

World Painting Index

World Painting Index

Author: Patricia Pate Havlice
ISBN: 9780810810167
Format: Hardback
$483.12

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The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the Legacy of Freud

The Psychoanalytic Vocation: Rank, Winnicott, and the...

Author: Peter L. Rudnytsky
ISBN: 9780881633382
Format: Hardback
$116.00

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Reading Pictures, Viewing Texts

Reading Pictures, Viewing Texts

Author: Claude Gandelman
ISBN: 9780253325327
Format: Hardback
$51.95

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Philosophy and the Arts

Philosophy and the Arts

Author: Peter A. French ,  Theodore E. Uehling
ISBN: 9780268013912
Format: Hardback
$231.00

An increasing number of philosophers are engaged in contemporary discussions in the philosophy of the arts. This...  Read More >>

The Nature of Art

The Nature of Art

Author: A. L. Cothey
ISBN: 9780415033572
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Cothey gives a concise and systematic account of the leading philosophical ideas about art and aesthetics from ancient...  Read More >>

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

Author: John Berger
ISBN: 9780140135152
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Based on a BBC television series, this is a book on art in any language, concentrating on how we look at paintings....  Read More >>

Visual Theory

Visual Theory

Author: Bryson ,  Keith Moxey
ISBN: 9780745606606
Format: Paperback
$36.95

Draws together some of the most prominent and influential authors of recent methodological debates in the field...  Read More >>

Yi Shu Jiao Yu Xue

Yi Shu Jiao Yu Xue

Author: Chuanyi Wei ,  Yiguang Liu
ISBN: 9787536613843
Format: Book
$18.88

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