Criticism & Theory
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Art Can Help
$16.00 Read moreA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society
In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photograp- Author: Adams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0300260245
- Language: English
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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development
$32.99 Add to cartAlong with Adler and Jung, Otto Rank was one of the intellectual giants in the inner circle around Sigmund Freud. Art and Artist, his major statement on the relationship of art to the individual and s… [more below]
- Author: Rank, Otto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0393305740
- Language: English
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Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting
$24.95 Read moreFirst collection on filmmaker and poet Pasolini’s passion for painting
One of Europe’s most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker,- Author: Giammei, Alessandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291285
- Language: English
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Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?: 50th Anniversary Edition
$16.95 Read moreMany scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why
- Author: Nochlin, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0500023840
- Language: English
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Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
$19.99 Add to cartArt interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words–with physicis
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0061227978
- Language: English
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Fear Not!
$19.00 Add to cartWhy would anyone want to watch horror movies? Why would Christians, in particular, bother with the genre? In Fear Not!, critic Josh Larsen makes the case that monster movies, creature features, slashe… [more below]
- Series: Reel Spirituality Monograph
- Author: Larsen, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1666738522
- Language: English
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Art Needs No Justification
$10.95 Add to cartArtists often agonize over their work, even to the point of despair, in the modern world. This booklet by one of the twentieth century’s most incisive art historians and cultural critics is a propheti… [more below]
- Author: Rookmaaker, Hans R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 63
- Publish Date: April 21 2010
- ISBN10: 1573834416
- Language: English
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How Art Can Change Your Life
$19.95 Read moreEnlightening, challenging, and informative, visual art can also be therapeutic, reducing anxiety and stress levels, and offering perspective on the challenges that we all face in our lives. How Art Ca
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0500024936
- Language: English
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Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?
$20.00 Add to cartWho Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created.
Carved by an obscure Greek sculptor, Alexandros of Antioch,
- Author: Cousineau, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868926587
- Language: English
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Surrealism
$23.33 Read moreWith Salvador Dalà as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytica
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cathrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2015
- ISBN10: 3836506734
- Language: English
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Rapunzel’s Supermarket: All about Young Children and Their Art
$39.95 Read moreRapunzel’s Supermarket[All about Young Children and Their Art] [RAPUNZELS SUPERMARKET 2/E] [Paperback]
- Author: Kolbe, Ursula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 135
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 097577221X
- Language: English
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
$9.95 Add to cartA pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonob
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Kandinsky, Wassily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0486234118
- Language: English
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Track Changes: A Handbook for Art Criticism
$19.00 Read moreCollecting case studies, conversations, manifestos, and reflections on the technical and ethical choices that writers and editors face, Track Changes is a rigorous, practical, and supportive guide to … [more below]
- Author: Dayal, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1736507915
- Language: English
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Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition): Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
$60.00 Read moreJoin one of the most influential artists of our time as he investigates the painting techniques of the Old Masters. Hockney’s extensive research led him to conclude that artists such as Caravaggio, Ve… [more below]
- Author: Hockney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0142005126
- Language: English
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The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
$45.00 Add to cartFrom former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art
What is the work of art? In- Author: Moss, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 059329758X
- Language: English
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The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty and Other Matters: 30th Anniversary Edition
$27.95 Add to cart“If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world.” –Peter Schjeldahl
An expanded edition of Hickey’s controversial and exq
- Author: Hickey, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987596500
- Language: English
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The Art Spirit
$19.99 Add to cartA classic work of advice, criticism, and inspiration for aspiring artists and lovers of art
“Art when really understood is the province of every human being.” So begins The Art Spirit, the collected- Author: Henri, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 0465002633
- Language: English
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Creative Authenticity: 16 Principles to Clarify and Deepen Your Artistic Vision
$15.95 Add to cartSerious working artists are the intended audience of this collection of short essays that clarify common expressive and personal problems that many artists encounter, including the fear of being clich… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0972872329
- Language: English
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Art as Experience
$19.00 Add to cartBased on John Dewey’s lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished wo… [more below]
- Author: Dewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0399531971
- Language: English
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Pretentiousness: Why It Matters
$18.00 Add to cartPretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
- Author: Fox, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 156689428X
- Language: English
