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 The Principles of UncertaintyBest Price: $15.92 This book holds a permanent place on my coffee table. It is a wonderfully illustrated and... |  Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual CultureBest Price: $41.90 "Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the... |  In Praise of ShadowsBest Price: $4.65 In Praise of Shadows is a very readable and succinct essay regarding Japanese aesthetics and... |  The Future of the ImageBest Price: $17.62 "The Future of the Image" by Jacques Ranciere offers an unique critique and... |  History of BeautyBest Price: $17.97 Seems to be a reworking of earlier books like Arthur Marwick's book BEAUTY IN HISTORY. To... |
 Law & Ethics for Medical CareersBest Price: $56.49 Law and Ethics for Medical Careers, 4th edition , provides an overview of the laws and ethics... |  Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday ThingsBest Price: $8.97 I really enjoyed the first part of the book. It is a good read as the Design of everyday things... |  On UglinessBest Price: $28.17 THIS BOOK SEES ART FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW TAKING A DISTANCE FROM DECORATION AND BEAUTY ... |  Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of TasteBest Price: $25.99 I must say, this is a nice translation. The translator has skillfully rendered Bourdieu's... |  Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & PhilosophersBest Price: $7.99 It was not as good as I expected. I would not pay full price for it again, in fact, it did not... |
 The Politics of AestheticsBest Price: $12.21 Jacques Ranciere in The Politics of Aesthetics implicates aesthetics and politics as part of the... |  The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on MediaBest Price: $10.40 Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest... |  Relational AestheticsBest Price: $20.00 I became interested in this book after viewing Ben Lewis's BBC Four documentary on Relational... |  But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art TheoryBest Price: $6.74 It may not be as complex as some readers are looking for, but it is an excellent place to start... |  Air Guitar: Essays on Art & DemocracyBest Price: $11.95 For the most part, art critism is pretty dry, boring stuff. In Hickey's hands, it's much more... |
 The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art, and Architecture (Shambhala Pocket Classics)Best Price: $14.06 This is a stunning book -- absolutely essential for artists who need to understand why... |  Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of WineBest Price: $15.49 I wouldn't recommend this book unless you are either philosophically minded (i.e. have a... |  Monty Python and Philosophy: Nudge Nudge, Think Think! (Popular Culture and Philosophy)Best Price: $7.89 As a major fan of Monty Python, I just had to read this book. I had put it off for some time, as... |  The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being WatchedBest Price: $17.90 What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need... |  Beauty: The Invisible EmbraceBest Price: $13.39 John O'Donohue's beautiful voice brings alive the poetry of his words to open, soften, delight,... |
 Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the ArtsBest Price: $2.57 This book prompted me to sign up for a painting class in my area. It challenged me to stop... |  Biomedical Ethics (Biomedical Ethics (Mappes))Best Price: $65.00 i was very much so surprised it came with the other book of core concepts and that i got both of... |  The Geometry of Art and LifeBest Price: $5.82 This short paperback is a hidden gem. It contains so many insightful pithy clues about life,... |  This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to SemioticsBest Price: $10.00 I live in a photographic world: teach photography in the main art school in my city, work as a... |  On Beauty and Being Just.Best Price: $6.59 This is vintage Scarry. The book's purpose seems to be an attempt to create a mental switch in... |
 Chromophobia (FOCI)Best Price: $12.25 I picked up this book from a list of gotta-haves for a class on aesthetics and I gotta say this... |  The Beauty Of The Infinite: The Aesthetics Of Christian TruthBest Price: $21.98 this work is dense and complex; I'm still hopeful the reward will be commenserate. |  Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth (The Wellek Library Lectures)Best Price: $17.25 |  ProfanationsBest Price: $16.09 The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts,... |  The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.)Best Price: $3.30 Write what you know: basic advice imparted in any writing class. Ms Postrel, writer of an... |
 On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)Best Price: $5.54 Writing in the 1790s, Schiller united the rigorous epistemology of Kant and Fichte with Plato's... |  The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian PhilosophiesBest Price: $23.09 I don't have much to add other then to say that this is one of my all time favorite books on the... |  Art and IllusionBest Price: $18.00 Great text, but in this printing the illustrations appear poorly printed (they are pale),... |  WoodBest Price: $29.94 All the books featuring the works of Goldsworthy are stunning. His work is unexpected and a joy... |  Perceiving the Arts: An Introduction to the Humanities (8th Edition)Best Price: $15.00 I ordered this book based on the ISBN # from the university. What I received was same title of... |
 Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential QualityBest Price: $0.01 In our modern world, the word beauty has changed into something restrictive and judgmental. We... |  The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art (Occasional Papers, No 4)Best Price: $12.00 Recently I bought at least 5 books regarding the modern art analysis. May be this one is the... |  Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts (2nd Edition)Best Price: $64.44 This collection of readings is designed to introduce the philosophical problems of aesthetics... |  Benjamin's -abilitiesBest Price: $18.00 “There is no world of thought that is not a world of language,” Walter... |  Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Best Price: $6.65 I found this book to do just what I had hoped. It's like a syllabus from a very smart, highly... |
 Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)Best Price: $5.00 After Plato/Aristotle, the most influential (and read) Western philosopher is Nietzsche, and few... |  Aesthetic Theory (Theory & History of Literature)Best Price: $24.75 Adorno is not famous for his writing style. His prose is dense, and sometimes impenetrable for... |  The Philosophy of SchopenhauerBest Price: $19.98 In the opening lines of chapter 3 Bryan Magee, paraphrasing Schopenhauer, writes: "If there... |  John Wesley (Library of Protestant Thought)Best Price: $13.09 For those of us who follow in the footsteps of John Wesley in our theological heritage (mine... |  Classic Works in Medical Ethics: Core Philosophical ReadingsBest Price: $40.00 This is a premiere collection of the top philosophical essays behind medical ethics today. I,... |
 Variations on a Blue Guitar: The Lincoln Center Institute Lectures on Aesthetic EducationBest Price: $14.18 |  A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $5.93 Burke's Enquiry is a surprising and remarkable little work. If you expect the Burke who fits... |  Theodor W. Adorno: One Last GeniusBest Price: $23.00 He was famously hostile to biography as a literary form. And yet this life of Adorno by one of... |  The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of ThingsBest Price: $12.27 This book is a must for anyone who follows a structuralist view of art. Clear, simple but... |  Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Thinkers)Best Price: $7.34 This is a well arranged volume of the essays essential to Marxist criticism from the 1930's to... |
 Painting Wildlife in WatercolorBest Price: $24.45 This is an outstanding and BEAUTIFUL book to learn to BOTH draw and paint wildlife with... |  Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of NatureBest Price: $12.46 This tour de force historical perspective of nature leads the reader into a provocative search... |  ListeningBest Price: $14.40 Nancy's book is an important, if belated, contribution to a philosophical understanding of a... |  The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology MeetBest Price: $10.73 My mother gave me Dubay's book since she knows that science and theology, and their constant... |  Classic Cases in Medical Ethics: Accounts of Cases That Have Shaped Medical Ethics, with Philosophical, Legal, and Historical BackgroundsBest Price: $22.50 I have not read many medical/clinical ethics materials. I am currently reading this as part... |
 Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and SymbolismBest Price: $35.00 Great book, interesting, but am I the right public? As my first book on colour it misses... |  Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary EditionBest Price: $14.00 I would say that this book is written from an academic perspective. I could see it being read in... | |||
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