Theory of art books

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The Open Work

The Open Work

Author: Umberto Eco ,  Anna Cancogni
ISBN: 9780674639768
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This book is significant for its concept of “openness”—the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents...  Read More >>

The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays

The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected...

Author: Ernst Bloch ,  Jack Zipes
ISBN: 9780262521390
Format: Paperback
$89.76

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Minimalism: Art of Circumstance

Minimalism: Art of Circumstance

Author: Lord Kenneth Baker
ISBN: 9780896598874
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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Ontology of the Work of Art: The Musical Work, the Picture, the Architectural Work, the Film

Ontology of the Work of Art: The Musical Work, the Picture,...

Author: Roman Ingarden ,  Raymond Meyer
ISBN: 9780821405550
Format: Hardback
$113.95

Investigates the nature and mode of being of four kinds of art works: the musical work, the picture, the architectural...  Read More >>

Reading the Book of Nature: A Phenomenological Study of Creative Expression in Science and Painting

Reading the Book of Nature: A Phenomenological Study...

Author: Edwin Jones
ISBN: 9780821409084
Format: Hardback
$56.95

Edwin Jones sets out to show that a phenomenological analysis of meaning can contribute to a theory of creativity...  Read More >>

Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art

Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art

Author: Joshua C. Taylor
ISBN: 9780520048881
Format: Paperback
$64.95

This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various...  Read More >>

Meaning and Authenticity: Further Works in the Sociology of Art

Meaning and Authenticity: Further Works in the Sociology...

Author: Cesar Grana
ISBN: 9780887382260
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This outstanding collection of hitherto unpublished work, written over the last fifteen years of the author's life,...  Read More >>

Cultural Hermeneutics of Modern Art: Essays in honor of Jan Aler

Cultural Hermeneutics of Modern Art: Essays in honor...

Author: Eldert Willems ,  Hubert Dethier
ISBN: 9789062036455
Format: Paperback
$308.88

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Winnipeg School of Art

Winnipeg School of Art

Author: Marilyn Baker
ISBN: 9781283091329
Format: Electronic book text
$92.40

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Ethics/Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions

Ethics/Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions

Author: Robert Merrill
ISBN: 9780944624005
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Texas Collects: Fine Art, Furniture, Windmills, and Whimseys

Texas Collects: Fine Art, Furniture, Windmills, and...

Author: Paul Nathan
ISBN: 9780878335541
Format: Hardback
$69.95

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The Foundations of Aesthetics, Art, and Art Education

The Foundations of Aesthetics, Art, and Art Education...

Author: Frank Farley ,  Ronald Neperud
ISBN: 9780275924560
Format: Hardback
$140.00

The Foundations of Aesthetics, Art, and Art Education addresses the need for a single reference that will provide...  Read More >>

Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views

Picasso On Art: A Selection of Views

Author: Dore Ashton ,  Pablo Picasso
ISBN: 9780306803307
Format: Paperback
$29.99

An anthology of Pablo Picasso's statements about art  Read More >>

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, V. 3

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art, V. 3

Author: Mary M. Gedo
ISBN: 9780881630787
Format: Hardback
$196.68

This volume contains sections on Renaissance topics, Proto Surrealism and Surrealism, and the position of the artist...  Read More >>

Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 1

Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 1

Author: G. W. F. Hegel ,  T. M. Knox (late Professor of Moral Philosophy, late Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198244981
Format: Hardback
$128.95

This is the second of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives...  Read More >>

The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy...

Author: Peter H Falk
ISBN: 9780932087034
Format: Hardback
$234.96

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Object, Image, Inquiry – The Art Historian at Work

Object, Image, Inquiry – The Art Historian at Work

Author: . Bakewell ,  William O. Beeman
ISBN: 9780892361359
Format: Paperback
$52.80

This series is a vehicle for texts generated through the experiences of writers, scholars, and artists who have...  Read More >>

The Death of the Artist as Hero

The Death of the Artist as Hero

Author: Bernard Smith
ISBN: 9780195548440
Format: Hardback
$46.50

The problem of defining and describing a visual aesthetic suited to our modern democratic society is central to...  Read More >>

Aesthetic Quality and Aesthetic Experience

Aesthetic Quality and Aesthetic Experience

Author: Michael H. Mitias
ISBN: 9789062037100
Format: Paperback
$132.00

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Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures

Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation...

Author: Michael Baxandall
ISBN: 9780300037630
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Defines and explains various concepts regarding the painter's intentions in order to provide a basis for understanding...  Read More >>

The Truth in Painting

The Truth in Painting

Author: I. McLeod ,  Jacques Derrida
ISBN: 9780226143248
Format: Paperback
$85.80

""The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as...  Read More >>

Visual Elements of Landscape

Visual Elements of Landscape

Author: John A. Jakle
ISBN: 9780870235672
Format: Paperback
$67.10

An examination of how visual and aesthetic dimensions amplify the functional interpretation of cultural landscape....  Read More >>

John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature: The Horizons of Feeling

John Dewey's Theory of Art, Experience, and Nature:...

Author: Thomas M. Alexander
ISBN: 9780887064265
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Thomas Alexander shows that the primary, guiding concern of Dewey's philosophy is his theory of aesthetic experience....  Read More >>

Contemporary Art and Its Philosophical Problems

Contemporary Art and Its Philosophical Problems

Author: Ingrid Stadler
ISBN: 9780879753832
Format: Hardback
$72.99

Examines the complex intersection where art and philosophy merge. This collection includes topics such as the criticism...  Read More >>

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