Search Results: Aesthetics

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.; Anchor Books, 1948. 283 pages; 18 cm. A36. First published, 1948. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Browning.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo.

Los Angeles, CA: Art Issues, Press; Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, Inc., 1995. xix, 420 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean text. Laminate wrinkling on wraps. Age toning. Art critic for the LA Times. "Christopher Knight is the unprecedented five-time winner of the Chemical Bank Award for Distinguished Newspaper Art Criticism, and was a finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in criticism. Writing first for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and now for the Los Angeles Times, Knight has developed a new journalistic approach to American art and culture, in which a radical defense of images stands alongside an incisive critique of cultural institutions. Among the 129 essays and reviews collected here are individual writings on internationally important historical figures, such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Tung Ch'i Ch'ang, and douard Manet; contemporary American masters like Edward Ruscha and Mike Kelley; and significant artists virtually forgotten today, such as California's… Read More

Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000. 122 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Designed as a primer for the museum or gallery visit required in many introductory art courses, this book is a combination reference, workbook, directory, and notepad. It is available in a discount package with McGraw-Hill art textbooks or separately." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Chapter 1: MUSEUM PROFILE; Exploring an Art Museum; A Brief History; Museum as Art Works; What is an Art Museum?; Museum Organization; Acquisition; Preservation; Education; Display; Types of Art Found in Museums; Dealing with Abstract Art; Chapter 2: PROFILE OF A VISIT; Museum Protocol; Techniques of Looking and Seeing; Visual Analysis; Guide Identification; Formal Elements; The Cultural Context Expressive Qualities; Taking Notes and Sketching' Sketching in Value and Color Sketching Textures' Chapter 3: THE MUSEUM VISIT; 1. Labels; 2. You Name It; 3. Frames and Bases; 4. Is Bigger Better?; 5. Art That Tells a Story; 6. Nudes; 7.… Read More

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2006. 245 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean text. Stain/foreedge. Another copy available. "The chief art critic for The New York Times writes on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living. This wide-ranging book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through works of art and the people who make them. It assures us that art--points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart--can be found almost anywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The art of making a world; The art of being artless; The art of having a lofty… Read More

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990. xix, 213 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Good+. Tight, clean text. Remainder marks/top & bottom edges.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1962. 255 pages; 22 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's blind stamp, otherwise tight & clean. Age toning.. 2nd. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. viii, 367 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Another copy available. An interesting anthology. Sections on "Art and Religion," "Art Patronage," "Art and Politics," "Women and Art," "Issues Concerning Race and Ethnicity," "Public Art," and "Controversies Over Government Funding and Censorship." CONTENTS: Images of gods, by Albert Elsen; The sacred mountain in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, by Vincent Scully; The interpretation of the second commandment, by Avram Kampf; Northern romanticism and the resurrection of God and transcendental abstraction, by Robert Rosenblum; The mechanics of seventeenth-century patronage, by Francis Haskell; A matter of taste: the monumental and exotic in the Qianlong reign, by Harold Kahn; Katherine Dreier: art patron with a social vision, by Carole Gold Calo; The structure of the SoHo art market, by Charles… Read More

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1986. 142 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Designed and illustrated by R. W. Scholes; annotated bibliography by Phyllis Janik. Tight, clean copy. Sunned spine.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Scholes, R. W.. 8vo.

London and New York: Routledge, 1986. viii, 88 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Reprint, 1992. Tight, clean copy. "History of Art covers training and vocational aspects of Art History, providing a wealth of information on the different kinds of courses available on the relationship between, for example, museum and gallery work and academic Art History." - Publisher.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2006. 245 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. Browning. Another copy available. "The chief art critic for The New York Times writes on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living. This wide-ranging book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through works of art and the people who make them. It assures us that art--points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart--can be found almost anywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The art of making a world; The art of being artless; The art of having… Read More

Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1988. xviii, 300 pages; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Another copy available. An important anthology of articles published by the Social Text collective. Art historians Hal Foster and Abigail Solomon-Godeau are among the contibutors. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Andrew Ross; Regarding postmodernism: a conversation with Frederic Jameson, by Anders Stephanson; Radical democracy: modern or postmodern?, by Chantal Mouffe; Postmodernism and politics, by Stanley Aronowitz; Politics and the limits of modernity, by Ernesto Laclau; Social criticism without philosophy: an encounter between feminism and postmodernism, by Nancy Fraser and Linda Nicholson; Tooth and claw: tales of survival and Crocodile Dundee, by Meaghan Morris; Visiting the Banana republic, by Paul Smith; Feminism: the political conscience of postmodernism?, by Laura Kipnis; Putting the pop back into postmodernism, by Lawrence Grossberg; Living with contradictions:… Read More

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2008. 876 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. "Echoing Edward Said's belief that 'Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism,' renowned critic Clive James presents here his life's work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, this book illuminates, rescues, or occasionally destroys the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists, and philosophers of the twentieth century. In discussing, among others, Louis Armstrong, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, James writes, 'If the humanism that makes civilization civilized is to be preserved into the new century, it will need advocates. These advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.' This is the book to burnish these… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1983. 319 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to boards. Remainder mark/top edge. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket chipped on the back cover. Another copy available.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 354 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Religion and Postmodernism Ser. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "The age of information, media, and virtuality is transforming every aspect of human experience. Questions that have long haunted the philosophical imagination are becoming urgent practical concerns: Where does the natural end and the artificial begin? Is there a difference between the material and the immaterial? In his new work, Mark C. Taylor extends his ongoing investigation of postmodern worlds by critically examining a wide range of contemporary cultural practices. Nothing defines postmodernism so well as its refusal of depth, its emphasis on appearance and spectacle, its tendency to collapse a three-dimensional world in which image and reality are distinct into a two-dimensional world in which they merge. The postmodern world, Taylor argues, is a world of surfaces, and the postmodern condition is one of profound… Read More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1990. x, 180 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Corner crease/back cover. "This book explores and explains the fundamentals of interior design. Because it does not emphasize current trends and fashion, its value will be long lasting. / Stanley Abercrombie, author of Architecture as Art, is chief editor of Interior Design magazine." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Westview Press; HarperCollinsPublishers, 1984. 284 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. IN-138. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1923. Good+. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared, browning. Another copy available. "In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important.No other American painter attracted such a large, intensely personal group of followers as Henri, whose death in 1929 brought to an end a life that has been completely devoted to art. He was an inspired artist and teacher who believed that everyone is vitally concerned in the happiness and wisdom to be found through the arts. Many of his paintings have been acquired by museums and private collectors. Among them are the Baltimore Museum of Art,… Read More

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1955. ix, 275 pages; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1951. xv, 117 pages, 66 plates; 24 cm. First published, 1911. Good+. Firm binding, with one spine crease. Clean inside copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. 64 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. First published, 1971. Tight, clean copy. Dogeared a couple of times. Browning. Another copy available. "Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand. Arrangements such as the layout of a city or building, a set of tools, a display of merchandise, the verbal exposition of facts or ideas, or a painting or piece of music are called orderly when an observer or listener can grasp their overall structure and the ramification of the structure in some detail. Order makes it possible to focus on what is alike and what is different, what belongs together and what is segregated. When nothing superfluous is included and nothing indispensable left out, one can understand the interrelation of the whole and its parts, as well as the hierarchic scale of importance and power by which some structural features are dominant, others subordinate. / Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology… Read More

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988. 208 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.