Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists.
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Examines the social implications and psychological impact of the images and conventions of modern and classical artists.
Approaches to Understanding Visual Culture
"What is it that happens when we understand something?" Malcolm Barnard relates the understanding of visual culture to the traditions of natural and social science and applies the theme of scientific understanding to the principal approaches to …
Art Lessons: Meditations on the Creative Life
Writing in the same tradition as renowned artist Robert Henri in his classic book "The Art Sprit," Deborah J. Haynes looks at the value of art and making art in today's world. What does it mean to become and work as an artist today? What are the …
In this original work on aesthetics, philosopher John Dilwroth offers an unusual theory of the nature of artworks. The Double Content (DC) view is the first comprehensive theory of art that is able to satisfactorily explain the nature of all …
A Dictionary of Colour: A Lexicon of the Language of Colour
This dictionary is the first of its kind: a treasury of color words and phrases, a comprehensive resource for exploring every aspect of color and it many applications across the disciplines and through the ages.Words are drawn from many different …
The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
In this witty and provocative book, a noted art critic shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics—feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the whole armory of academic antihumanism.
Sounding the Event: Escapades in Dialogue and Matters of Art, Nature and Time
What constitutes an event? Propelled by this question, "Sounding the Event" encounters a variety of theories and a host of issues that have implications for not only conceptions of nature and becoming, subject and substance but also practices of …