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Hutchinson & Company, 1st edition.. Hardcover. Fine. ""Arthur Koestler argues that the scientist's insight is similar to the artist's act of creation, and that they share certain psychological conditions. Examining the common factors in scientific, artistic, and comic creations, he gives examples from psychology."" [Pub. Info] ""While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended - for example, in dreams and trancelike states."" [Pub. Info]
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The Act of Creation
by Koestler, Arthur
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Aesthetics and Criticism
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Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, London, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The present volume…deals with the applications of aesthetic theory to the craft of criticism. The author maintains that all assessment of works of art in aesthetic terms and all appreciative writing about the arts involve tacit assumptions about the nature of artistic excellence as such, and demonstrates that so long as latent theory is muddled or confused criticism cannot successfully formulate coherent and intelligible judgments. 'Aesthetics and Criticism' is therefore concerned broadly with the problem of communication and coherence in criticism."" [Dust Jacket] Minor chipping at top of dust jacket spine. 1ST EDITION
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Art for Art's Sake
by Guerard, Albert
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Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, Boston MA, 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author divides his work into four parts. The first traces the history of 'art for art's sake' from antiquity to the present. Albert Guerard's depth of learning and his ability to make discriminatory selections of facts give to this monumental task a lightness of touch and ease of style that make it delightful reading. The second section... goes on to discuss Art for Money, for Prestige and for Information, Art and Morality, and Art for Propaganda. Here the author advances his proposition that Art which exists for any of these reasons is not Art. His, however, is a robust art in touch with life, obeying and serving but only its own laws and its own ends... Here is a book, controversial, profound and readable." [Dust Jacket] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.
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Hegel: A Biography
by Pinkard, Terry (Georgetown University)
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Cambridge University Press, UK, No date. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The book and dust jacket are in Fine condition.
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Philosophies of Beauty: From Socrates to Robert Bridges
by Carritt, E. F. (editor)
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Oxford University Press, 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. "No one was better qualified than Mr. Carritt to introduce students to that most perplexing and most fascinating of philosophical problems--what is beauty."" [Review - Times (London) Literary Supplement] Oxford 334 pages; 74 entries by prominent philosophers. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING.
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The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art
by Danto, Arthur C.
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Columbia University Press, NY , 1986. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. "Arthur Danto, a thinker of great scope and wide interests, has contributed to many aspects of contemporary philosophy. The broad range of his work is indicated by his previous books, which includes 'The Transfiguration of the Commonplace', which concerns a theme in which Danto has long been interested: the relationship between art and philosophy. 'The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art' delves further into that long and complex relationship. It brings the strategies of philosophical analysis to the resolution of conceptual questions in contemporary art, and seeks to explain the deep ties, historical and theoretical, between philosophy and art." [Dust Jacket] STATED 1ST EDITION.
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