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Narration and Knowledge by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.91Now in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative. Analytical philosopher Arthur C. Danto introduces the... -
What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.18A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex... -
Nietzsche as Philosopher by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat... -
Andy Warhol by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.96An elegant, masterful portrait of Andy Warhol's life, character, and lasting influence by an eminent art critic."Danto . . . sums up the Pop master's evolution as both artist and persona. . . . It... -
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56In this acclaimed work, first published in 1986, world-renowned scholar Arthur C. Danto explored the inextricably linked but often misunderstood relationship between art and philosophy. In light of... -
Analytical Philosophy of Action by Arthur C. Danto 9780521117517
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86A study of the philosophical problems associated with the concept of action. Professor Danto is concerned to isolate logically the notion of a 'basic action' and to examine the way in which context... -
The Body/Body Problem: Selected Essays by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $28.59The overall subject of the essays in "The Body/Body Problem" is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who... -
Philosophizing Art: Selected Essays by Arthur C. Danto 9780520229068
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.59Arthur Danto's work has always affirmed a deep relationship between philosophy and art. These essays explore this relationship through a number of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by... -
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art by Arthur C. Danto 9780674903463
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $28.88Arthur C. Danto argues that recent developments in the art world, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be told from ordinary things, make urgent the need for a new theory of art... -
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic... -
Art and Posthistory: Conversations on the End of Aesthetics by Arthur C. Danto 9780231204767
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $69.85From the 1990s until just before his death, the legendary art critic and philosopher Arthur C. Danto carried out extended conversations about contemporary art with the prominent Italian critic... -
Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy by Arthur C. Danto 9780520208421
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $32.59Arthur C. Danto's lucid introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought remains an unparalleled guide to problems in metaphysics and epistemology that have engaged philosophers... -
The Abuse of Beauty: The Paul Carus Lectures 21 by Arthur C. Danto 9780812695403
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.43Danto simply and entertainingly traces the evolution of the concept of beauty over the past century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art. Beauty then came to be regarded as a... -
Wake of Art: Criticism, Philosophy, and the Ends of Taste Arthur C. Danto 9789057013010
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.91Since the mid-1980s, Arthur C. Danto has been increasingly concerned with the implications of the demise of modernism. Out of the wake of modernist art, Danto discerns the emergence of a radically... -
Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria... -
After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition by Arthur C. Danto 9780691163895
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.91Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for... -
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce by Umberto Eco
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51" . . . fascinating throughout. . . . the book is recreative in the highest sense." -Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic"A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical... -
New Philosophy of History Pb by Frank Ankersmit 9780948462771
Booksplease Price: $28.39'What is history?' From Thucydides to Toynbee, historians and non-historians alike have wondered how to answer this question. A New Philosophy of History reflects on developments over the last two... -
Robert Mapplethorpe by Mark Holborn 9781838660208
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $105.51A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photography Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the twentieth century's most important and influential artists,... -
Narratives in Contemporary Art: Five Essays by Lorand Hegyi 9788836642472
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $14.32The five essays selected for this book offer different approaches to the problem of narratives of contemporary art, based on observation of the central significance of contextual and situational... -
Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna Torgovnick 9780226808321
Booksplease Price: $30.79In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology,... -
Visual Theory by Norman Bryson 9780745606606
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97In recent years there has been a growing interest in problems of theory and method in the field of art history. Semiology, phenomenology, feminism, analytical philosophy and Marxism have all... -
The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.70"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."-E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books"This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with... -
A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture by Max Ryynänen 9781032536101
RRP: $74.81Booksplease Price: $66.55This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and... -
Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by Jean-Marie Schaeffer 9780691144368
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $44.31This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a... -
Modernity on Endless Trial by Leszek Kolakowski
Booksplease Price: $36.83Leszek Kolakowski delves into some of the most intellectually vigorous questions of our time in this remarkable collection of essays garnished with his characteristic wit. Ten of the essays have... -
The Mind and Its Depths by Richard Wollheim 9780674576124
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $34.03The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in the moral life and psychoanalysis, has always been at the core of Richard Wollheim's celebrated work. This book brings together Wollheim's broad... -
A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture by Max Ryynänen 9781032536125
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.27This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and... -
Sean Scully and David Carrier in Conversation: Abstract Painting, Art History and Politics by David Carrier
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $36.75What makes a person an artist? How do works of art and their very own, extraordinary style come into being? And how does the prominent painter view his own work? The world-famous painter Sean Scully... -
Aesthetics: The Classic Readings by David E. Cooper 9781119116806
RRP: $37.35Booksplease Price: $35.98The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper's popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The second edition of this bestselling anthology... -
Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art by Leo Steinberg 9780226771854
Booksplease Price: $65.08Leo Steinberg's classic "Other Criteria" comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from "Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public" and the "flat-bed picture plane" to reflections on Picasso,... -
Elective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory by Lydia Goehr
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44As illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerful relationships that crystallize under changing conditions. In this new book, Lydia Goehr focuses on the... -
The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field by Pierre Bourdieu
Booksplease Price: $39.10Written with verve and intensity (and a good bit of wordplay), this is the long-awaited study of Flaubert and the modern literary field that constitutes the definitive work on the sociology of art by... -
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage by Stanley Cavell 9780674739062
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $33.02During the '30s and '40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. Their female protagonists were strong, independent,... -
Psychoanalysis, Scientific Method and Philosophy by Sydney Hook
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $147.95This by now well-known pioneering dialogue on Freudian analysis is concerned not with therapeutic implications, individual or social, of psychoanalysis or of any other brand of psychology, but solely... -
This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein by Stanley Cavell 9780226037387
Booksplease Price: $25.95Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection... -
Art by Diarmuid Costello 9781845203207
Booksplease Price: $38.55The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book... -
Bizarre Beauty: The Art of William Harper by Glenn Adamson 9783897907164
RRP: $69.66Booksplease Price: $48.57Over the course of six decades, the American artist William Harper (b. 1944) has conjured a body of work unique in the realm of jewellery. Masterfully crafted in enamel and gold, his pieces explore... -
On Criticism by Noel Carroll
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.61In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and... -
Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art by Richard Shusterman 9780847697656
Booksplease Price: $55.90This much acclaimed book has emerged as neo-pragmatism's most significant contribution to contemporary aesthetics. By articulating a deeply embodied notion of aesthetic experience and the art of...