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This outstanding collection of hitherto unpublished work, written over the last fifteen years of the author's life,...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

Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 2

Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 2
Author: G. W. F. Hegel , T. M. Knox (late Professor of Moral Philosophy, late Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9780198244998 Format: Hardback	$128.95
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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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