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The Art Spirit

by Robert Henri

The classic work of art criticism, in a beautiful new edition


The Art Instinct

by Denis Dutton

The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste,...


Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

by Georg Hegel & Bernard Bosanquet

No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the...


The Shape of a Pocket

by John Berger

The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people...


Make Good Art

by Neil Gaiman

In May 2012, bestselling author Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts about creativity, bravery, and strength. He encouraged...


Femininity in Asian Women Artists' Work from China, Korea and USA: If the Shoe Fits

by Patricia Karetzky

Patricia Karetzky discusses the metaphor of the shoe and how it is present in different women artists' work in China, Korea and USA


Good Day Today: David Lynch Destabilises The Spectator

by Daniel Neofetou

This book argues that the films of David Lynch pose a radical challenge to conservative and absolutist ideologies.


Antoine's Alphabet

by Jed Perl

Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and...


Letters on Cézanne

by Rainer maria Rilke & Joel Agee

Rilke's prayerful responses to the french master's beseeching art

For a long time nothing, and then suddenly one has the right eyes.

Virtually every day in the fall of 1907, Rainer Maria Rilke returned to a Paris...


Inside Bruegel

by Edward Snow

In this brilliant, original and lavishly illustrated book, Edward Snow undertakes an inquiry into a single painting by the Flemish master Peter Bruegel the Elder—the kaleidoscopic Children’s Games—in order...


Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime

by Patricia Hampl

Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a Moroccan screen behind her. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores...


Air Guitar

by Dave Hickey

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail...


A Hedonist's Guide to Art

by Laura K. Jones

A Hedonist's Guide to Art shines a light on both the little-known and the wilder shores of contemporary art, affording readers a peek inside the machinations of the gilded beast known as the "Art World." Here...


The View From The Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World

by Ted Orland

How artists convert art theory into art making. Sequel to the author's previous best-seller, "Art & Fear".


Nothing If Not Critical: Essays on Art and Artists

by Robert Hughes

From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists,...


Hopper

by Mark Strand

Now in rich color, thirty of American painter Edward Hopper’s masterpieces with critiques from acclaimed poet Mark Strand. Strand deftly illuminates the work of the frequently misunderstood American painter,...


Exploring Contemporary Craft: History, Theory and Critical Writing

by Jean Johnson

The craft of craft, the art of craft – here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things. In March 1999, Jean Johnson, who runs Toronto's Craft Studio at Harbourfront Centre, organized a...


About Looking

by John Berger

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In...


And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos