Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The great debate about art The great debate about art Roy Harris Includes bibliography (p. [131-134]). OL15597683W
Art and sustainability Art and sustainability Sacha Kagan 513 p. : 23 cm OL16768605W
The Trials of Art The Trials of Art Daniel McClean When artists and the legal system collide, the result is bound to be interesting, as this unique collection of essays on famous trials of artists from the Renaissance to the present day shows. Edite… OL16803892W
The disciplinary frame The disciplinary frame John Tagg How do photographs gain their meaning and power? John Tagg claims that, to answer this question, we must look at the ways in which everything that frames photography - the discourse that surrounds it… OL16978057W
Artist-teacher Artist-teacher G. James Daichendt "Is an artist-teacher a mere professional who balances a career--or does the duality of making and teaching art merit a more profound investigation? Rejecting a conventional understanding of the arti… OL16988277W
What Art Is What Art Is Arthur C. Danto What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is chal… OL17192957W
Art & physics Art & physics Leonard Shlain i read this book when i was a freshman in high it really opened my eyes to the world of physics and how art mymics reality and vise versa OL1891888W
Art and pornography Art and pornography Jerrold Levinson,Hans Maes This book presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, bet… OL19984957W
Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art Perceptual Structure of Three-Dimensional Art Paul M. W. Hackett 1 online resource OL27388414W
Why Is That Art? Why Is That Art? Terry Barrett xix, 280 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm OL281795W
William Morris on art & design William Morris on art & design William Morris vi, 202 p OL47693W
Aesthetics Aesthetics Anne D. R. Sheppard 1987 OL4965946W
The transfiguration of the commonplace The transfiguration of the commonplace Arthur C. Danto,Arthur Coleman Danto "Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art and mak… OL546122W
Philosophy of Art Philosophy of Art Noël Carroll Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students studying philosophical aesthetics. It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy, as well as key topics such as the representational t… OL8093666W
The Accident of Art The Accident of Art Sylvère Lotringer,Paul Virilio There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the "optically correct" is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven't learned from it. Inste… OL8622435W
Opera Aperta Opera Aperta Umberto Eco Depuis le début du siècle sont apparues des œuvres qui s'offrent à une pluralité d'organisations: compositions musicales dont les parties sont à enchaîner selon le choix de l'interprète, sculptures m… OL8996445W