Aesthetics of Mimesis
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a...
EAN: 9780691092584
Art as Performance
* Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts. * Offers a...
EAN: 9781405116671
Art and Intimacy
To Ellen Dissanayake, the arts are biologically evolved propensities of human nature: their...
EAN: 9780295991962
Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985
An updated edition of the hugely successful original anthology that captures the essence and the...
EAN: 9781444338577
Kant's Theory of Taste
An important contribution to Kant scholarship. Henry Allison, a pre-eminent interpreter of Kant,...
EAN: 9780521795340
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
This collection of essays examines the unique theory which Schopenhauer developed to explain the...
EAN: 9780521473880
Robert Smithson
This volume includes previously unpublished essays by Robert Smithson and gathers articles,...
EAN: 9780520203853
Art in Theory 1815-1900
* Provides an indispensable companion to Harrison and Wooda s classic volume Art in Theory...
EAN: 9780631200666
Iconoclasm in Aesthetics
Philosophers see art as a vehicle of universal meaning, while art historians emphasize its...
EAN: 9780521822091
Thinking with Things
Offers a way of understanding what art is and why human beings create it. This book asserts that...
EAN: 9780292706910
Transfiguration of the Commonplace
Danto argues that recent developments in art—in particular the production of works that cannot be...
EAN: 9780674903463
Hang-Ups
Pre-eminent author and art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to...
EAN: 9780563522898
Block Reader in Visual Culture
Brings together classic writings by leading cultural theorists which were first published in the...
EAN: 9780415139892
Art and Science
Featuring the work of artists such as Damien Hirst, Christine Borland, Bill Viola and Helen...
EAN: 9781850435846
What Good are the Arts?
From one of the country's most eminent reviewers and academics, a delightfully sceptical and...
EAN: 9780571226030
Philosophy of Mass Art
Few today can escape exposure to mass art. Nevertheless, despite the fact that mass art provides...
EAN: 9780198742371
Style in the Art Theory of Early Modern Italy
Style is one of the oldest and most powerful analytic tools available to art writers. Philip...
EAN: 9780521780698
Modern Art
As public interest in modern art continues to grow, there is a real need for a book that will...
EAN: 9780192803641
What is Art?
During the decades of his world fame, Tolstoy wrote this series of essays and polemics on issues...
EAN: 9780140446425
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract...
EAN: 9780486234113
Author, Art, and the Market
Analyzing the rise of art in the 18th century, this treatise demonstrates how painting, sculpture...
EAN: 9780231106016