Criticism & Theory
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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
$20.00 Add to cartWith 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 Add to cartJoin 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 Read more“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
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Wicked Arts Assignments: Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education
$25.00 Add to cartFun, poetical and inspiring challenges for teaching the arts–for students of all ages and teachers of all disciplines
The almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are design
- Author: Heijnen, Emiel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 9492095750
- Language: English
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Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAbout the Series: Oxford’s Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects–from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to Histor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeland, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0192804634
- Language: English
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The Artist’s Reality: Philosophies of Art
$22.00 Add to cartMark Rothko’s classic book on artistic practice, ideals, and philosophy, now with an expanded introduction and an afterword by Makoto Fujimura
Stored in a New York City warehouse for many years after- Author: Rothko, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269870
- Language: English
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Ways of Seeing
$21.00 Add to cart“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” — so opens John Berger’s revolutionary million-copy bestseller on how to look at art
John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the mo- Author: Berger, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140135154
- Language: English
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Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
$12.95 Add to cartThis is a book about making art. Ordinary art. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people; essentially–statistically speaking–
- Author: Bayles, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0961454733
- Language: English
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
$17.99 Add to cartWriting in the tradition of Susan Sontag and Elaine Scarry, Maggie Nelson has emerged as one of our foremost cultural critics with this landmark work about representations of cruelty and violence in a
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 13, 2012
- ISBN10: 0393343146
- Language: English
