Methods and Theories of Art History
By: Anne D'Alleva
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Art historical theory is a forum of intense, often passionate debate. This book provides the art hi…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
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2. In Praise of Shadows
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
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3. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
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"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
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A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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5. The Waste Land
By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
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6. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
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7. Tropic of Cancer
By: Henry Miller
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8. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
By: Michael Baxandall
4.10
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9. How to Write a Thesis
By: Umberto Eco , Caterina Mongiat Farina , Geoff Farina , None
4.62
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10. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
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11. About Looking
By: John Berger
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
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12. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
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13. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
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14. Are Prisons Obsolete?
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4.15
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15. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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16. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
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17. Metamorphoses
By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney
3.99
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18. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
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19. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
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4.33
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20. Methods and Theories of Art History
By: Anne D'Alleva
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Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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21. The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
By: Donald Preziosi
3.97
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The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation o… read more
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