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Beauty

  • Beauty

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    Book, Oxford Univ Pr, 2009

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    “Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane,” writes Roger Scruton. Can there be dangerous beauties, corrupting beauties, and immoral beauties? But while we may argue about what is or is not beautiful, Scruton insists that beauty is a real and universal value, one anchored in our rational nature, and that the sense of beauty has an indispensable part to play in shaping the human world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .S37 2009  AVAILABLE

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Art From Start To Finish : Jazz, Painting, Writing, And Other Improvisations

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The Mystery Of Things

  • The Mystery Of Things

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    A.C. Grayling

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    Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004

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    In the book’s essays, Grayling illustrates what each area offers to thought, and in doing so, he covers subjects as wide-ranging as Jane Austen’s Emma, The Rosetta Stone, Shakespeare, the Holocaust, and the brain. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BD431 .G734 2004  AVAILABLE

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An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Art

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Gender And Aesthetics : An Introduction

  • Gender And Aesthetics : An Introduction

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    Carolyn Korsmeyer

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    Book, Routledge, 2004

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    Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. * Art, pleasure and beauty * Music, literature and painting * The role of gender in taste and food * What is art and who is an artist? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  N72.F45 K67 2004  AVAILABLE

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Art And Thought

  • Art And Thought

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    edited by Dana Arnold and Margaret Iversen

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    Book, Blackwell Pub, 2003

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    Art and Thought is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores the relationship between the discipline of art history and important movements in the history of western thought. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX440 .A78 2003  AVAILABLE

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The Invention Of Art : A Cultural History

  • The Invention Of Art : A Cultural History

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    Larry Shiner

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 2001

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    With The Invention of Art, Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of fine art is a modern invention?that the lines drawn between art and craft resulted from key social transformations in Europe during the long eighteenth century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX440 .S5 2001  DUE 12-05-09

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Art Matters

  • Art Matters

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    Peter de Bolla

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    Book, Harvard University Press, 2001

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    Working toward a better understanding of what it is to be profoundly moved by a work of art, he forces us to reconsider the importance of art works and the singular nature and value of our experience of them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .D4 2001  AVAILABLE

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A Theory Of Art

  • A Theory Of Art

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    Karol Berger

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    Book, Oxford University Press, 2000

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    Offering a careful synthesis of a wide breadth of scholarship from art history, musicology, literary studies, political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and written in a clear, accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the arts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .B393 2000  AVAILABLE

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The Muses

  • The Muses

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    Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Peggy Kamuf

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    Book, Stanford University Press, 1996

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    This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .N2713 1996  AVAILABLE

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Deconstruction And The Visual Arts : Art, Media, Architecture

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Into The Light Of Things : The Art Of The Commonplace From Wordsworth To John Cage

  • Into The Light Of Things : The Art Of The Commonplace From Wordsworth To John Cage

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    George J. Leonard

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 1994

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    He shifts focus persuasively from art theory to literature to religious thought and biography, making his method seem the natural mode of inquiry into culture.”?Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Provocative and illuminating.”?Library Journal “Highly stimulating, impassioned.”?Publisher’s Weekly “A rich and rewarding study written in a clear and accessible style with excellent references and a very useful index. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  NX454 .L46 1994  AVAILABLE

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The Language Of Art History

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Art After Philosophy And After : Collected Writings, 1966 -1990

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The Reenchantment Of Art

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