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The Other Perspective in Gender and Culture

The Other Perspective in Gender and Culture

Author: Juliet Flower MacCannell
ISBN: 9780231072564
Format: Hardback
$173.95

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Art Talk: The Early 80s

Art Talk: The Early 80s

Author: Jeanne Siegel
ISBN: 9780306804144
Format: Paperback
$31.99

Art Talk is a stimulating collection of interviews conducted by noted art critics of the most influential and innovative...  Read More >>

Democracy and the Arts: The Role of Participation

Democracy and the Arts: The Role of Participation

Author: Terri Lynn Cornwell
ISBN: 9780275930707
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This definitive text explores the complex relationship between participation in the arts and participation in politics...  Read More >>

Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs

Transformatnl Theory Aesthetcs

Author: Michael Stephan ,  Trevor Pateman
ISBN: 9780415041966
Format: Hardback
$189.00

In this lively and original work, Michael Stephan breaks new ground in drawing together common forms of knowledge...  Read More >>

Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the...

Author: Rudolf Arnheim
ISBN: 9780520065369
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Offers ideas and observations in the fields of psychology and the arts. This book includes glimpses of the author's...  Read More >>

What Is Art for?

What Is Art for?

Author: Ellen Dissanayake
ISBN: 9780295970172
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called ""art,"" and in most societies other than...  Read More >>

Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays

Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays

Author: M. M. Bakhtin ,  Michael Holquist
ISBN: 9780292704121
Format: Paperback
$64.95

Contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution  Read More >>

Charles Ricketts

Charles Ricketts

Author: J.G.P. Delaney
ISBN: 9780198172123
Format: Hardback
$190.00

The career of Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) encompassed many aspects of late Victorian and Edwardian culture, including...  Read More >>

Corporate Art

Corporate Art

Author: Rosanne Martorella
ISBN: 9780813515250
Format: Hardback
$102.96

In the last two decades, as American corporations have relocated and built new headquarters, they have become major...  Read More >>

Modern Theories of Art 1: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire

Modern Theories of Art 1: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire...

Author: Moshe Barasch
ISBN: 9780814711330
Format: Hardback
$193.00

A survey of the thought about painting and sculpture from the early 18th to the mid-19th centuries. Barasch studies...  Read More >>

Great Art Hoax

Great Art Hoax

Author: HUER
ISBN: 9780879724924
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The Great Art Hoax exposes the real fakery and hypocrisy of the art world: how art is manufactured and marketed;...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Theories of Art

Twentieth-Century Theories of Art

Author: James M. Thompson ,  James M. Thompson
ISBN: 9780886291112
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and...  Read More >>

Modern Theories of Art 1: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire

Modern Theories of Art 1: From Winckelmann to Baudelaire...

Author: Moshe Barasch
ISBN: 9780814711767
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A survey of the thought about painting and sculpture from the early 18th to the mid-19th centuries. Barasch studies...  Read More >>

The Critic as Advocate

The Critic as Advocate

Author: Bernard Smith
ISBN: 9780195530292
Format: Paperback
$31.50

Selected essays from some 50 years of work by one of Australia's most distinguished art critics, Bernard Smith....  Read More >>

Art History: Its Use and Abuse

Art History: Its Use and Abuse

Author: W McAllister Johnson
ISBN: 9781282056503
Format: Electronic book text
$105.60

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Keepers of Culture: Art-thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal Cortissoz and Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

Keepers of Culture: Art-thought of Kenyon Cox, Royal...

Author: The Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873383905
Format: Hardback
$50.60

An account of the differing approaches of three art critics to the conflict between modern and traditional art in...  Read More >>

Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics...

Author: Ellen Handler Spitz
ISBN: 9780300046205
Format: Paperback
$43.95

In this provocative, closely argued book, Ellen Handler Spitz explores three principal psychoanalytic approaches...  Read More >>

An Endless Adventure ... an Endless Passion ... an Endless Banquet: A Situationist Scrapbook

An Endless Adventure ... an Endless Passion ... an Endless...

Author: Iwona Blazwick ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780860919834
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Informative and well-illustrated collection of essays and documents tracing the impact of the Situationist International...  Read More >>

The Role of Imagery in Learning

The Role of Imagery in Learning

Author: . Broudy
ISBN: 9780892361458
Format: Paperback
$34.95

This series supports scholarship in the field of art education and disseminates ideas about the theory and practice...  Read More >>

The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York Art World, 1940-1985

The Transformation of the Avant-Garde: The New York...

Author: Diana Crane (University of Pennsylvania, USA and University of Paris, France)
ISBN: 9780226117904
Format: Paperback
$49.95

With the rise of Abstract Expressionism, New York City became the acknowledged center of the avant-garde. Diana...  Read More >>

Winnipeg School of Art

Winnipeg School of Art

Author: Marilyn Baker
ISBN: 9786613091321
Format: Electronic book text
$201.48

Before the First World War, Winnipeg was Canada's third-largest city and the undisputed metropolis of the West....  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Excess

The Aesthetics of Excess

Author: Allen S. Weiss
ISBN: 9780791400531
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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The Aesthetics of Excess

The Aesthetics of Excess

Author: Allen S. Weiss
ISBN: 9780791400524
Format: Hardback
$146.52

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