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Bento's Sketchbook by John Berger Publisher Comments Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.... (read more) Your price: $28.95 New - Hardcover 
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields Publisher Comments With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art by Darren Hudson Hick Publisher Comments Guiding readers through major problems, issues and debates in aesthetics, this is a bias-free introduction for students studying the philosophy of art for the first time. Each chapter of the book begins by considering a particular work of art from... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Publisher Comments During the past twenty years, the world’s most renowned critical theorist—the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies—has experienced a radical reorientation in her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.45 New - Hardcover
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford Publisher Comments A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands Called "the sleeper hit of the publishing season" (The Boston Globe), Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Philosophers and Their Critics #1: Danto and His Critics by Mark (edt) Rollins Publisher Comments It has been 30 years since the initial publication of Arthur C. Danto’s influential and award-winning treatise on the philosophy of art, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. What is the current critical assessment of Danto and his body of work... (read more) Your price: $99.95 New - Hardcover
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Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present (Studies in the Humanities: No. 13) by Monroe C Beardsley Publisher Comments “Beardsleys book accomplishes to perfection what the writer intended. It illuminates an area of history from a certain perspective as was never done before. . . . The distinguishing feature of his book is a n excitement over everything I... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Beauty (10 Edition) by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962 (Sb-The German List) by Theodor W. Adorno Publisher Comments Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. Night Music presents the first complete English translations of two collections of... (read more) Your price: $29.00 New - Hardcover
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Once-Told Tales: An Essay in Literary Aesthetics by Peter Kivy Publisher Comments Human beings are captivated by stories. In the modern world we consume fiction as literature, at a huge rate—but what is at the heart of the experience of the novel, of silent reading? Philosophers of art have traditionally focused on a reading... (read more) Your price: $104.95 New - Hardcover
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Philosophy of New Music by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Publisher Comments In 1947 Theodor Adorno, one of the seminal European philosophers of the postwar years, announced his return after exile in the United States to a devastated Europe by writing Philosophy of New Music. Intensely polemical from its first publication, every... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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The Aesthetic Mind by Elisabeth (edt) Schellekens Publisher Comments The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An eminent international team of experts presents new research in philosophy, psychology... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics by Allen Carlson Publisher Comments The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a significant subfield of aesthetics, environmental aesthetics studies and... (read more) List Price $20.99 Your price: $18.63 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry Publisher Comments "With exemplary clarity, Elaine Scarry argues that admiring the beautiful is nothing to be ashamed of; that on the contrary beauty fosters the spirit of justice. A brave and timely book."--J.M.Coetzee "Here is a writer almost magically summoning up the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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What Is Art? (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy Publisher Comments During the decades of his world fame as sage and preacher as well as author of War and Peace and Anna Karenin, Tolstoy wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice and religion. These culminated in What is... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story: Assessing Depression, Aggression, and Cognitive Skills by Rawley A. Silver Publisher Comments Art can be an invaluable means of communication. It can bypass language and impairment and allow for the expression of thoughts or feelings too difficult to communicate with words. In The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story, Rawley Silver draws on her... (read more) Your price: $53.95 New - Trade Paper
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Decline of the West : Abridged Edition (91 Edition) by Oswald Spengler Publisher Comments Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On Aesthetic Education of Man (04 Edition) by Friedrich Schiller Publisher Comments A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society —... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers (Key Thinkers) by Alessandro Giovannelli Publisher Comments Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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