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1	Short Guide to Writing about Art more books like this by Sylvan Barnet A Short Guide to Writing About Art, Seventh Edition, the best-selling text of its kind, equips students to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculpture, and architecture, and prepares them with the tools they need to present their ideas in effective writing. This concise yet thorough guide to "seeing and saying" addresses a ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.89! \| first editions
2	Understanding Art more books like this by Lois Fichner-Rathus Designed for non-art majors, this text aims to communicate the excitement, relevance, and beauty of art in discussions of the language and elements of art-media, methods, content, composition, style and the purposes of art. "Preliminary Sketches" offer facts preceding each chapter to stimulate interest in the subject matter. "A Closer Look" ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £11.30! \| first editions
3	Ways of Seeing more books like this by John Berger "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and ... see all copies from £6.39! new only from £7.21!
4	The art spirit more books like this by Robert Henri In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical comment for the student, it also contains inspiration for those to whom the happiness to be found through all the arts is important. In this book are ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £12.00! \| first editions
5	Seven Days in the Art World more books like this by Sarah Thornton A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of ... see all copies from £12.38! new only from £12.38! \| first editions
6	Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II more books like this by Fred S Kleiner As the market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. The story of art unfolds in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, deepening students' understanding of ... see all copies from £12.08! new only from £13.92! \| first editions
7	Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking more books like this by David Bayles, Ted Orland Written by artists, for artists, this survival guide explores the way art gets made, the reason it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.19!
8	Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities more books like this by Lawrence Cunningham CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £26.43!
9	Concerning the Spiritual in Art more books like this by Wassily Kandinsky Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations. see all copies from £5.62! new only from £5.62! \| first editions
10	Perceiving the Arts: An Introduction to the Humanities more books like this by Dennis J Sporre KEY BENEFIT: Written for individuals who have little or no knowledge of the arts, Perceiving the Arts has a specific and limited purpose: to provide an introductory, technical, and respondent-related reference to the arts and literature. KEY TOPICS: Intended to give basic information about each of the arts disciplines--drawing, painting, ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £8.69! \| first editions
11 view cover	Exploring Art: A Global, Thematic Approach more books like this by Margaret R Lazzari EXPLORING ART offers a thematic and global approach to teaching art appreciation. It balances Western and non-Western approaches to art, unlike competing books, which concentrate much more on Western art, artists, and historical styles. This global approach acknowledges the diverse backgrounds of today's art students, and explores the similarities ... see all copies from £7.77! new only from £24.14! \| first editions
12 view cover	Reality Through the Arts more books like this by Dennis Sporre For One-Semester Introduction to the Humanities and General Humanities courses. Reality Through the Arts provides a comprehensive introduction that covers both arts history and aesthetic perception in western and non-western cultures by covering all the artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture, ... see all copies from £4.17! new only from £15.64! \| first editions
13 view cover	Creative Impulse: An Introduction to the Arts more books like this by Dennis J Sporre For any introductory course in Humanities or Interdisciplinary Arts Appreciation. This text presents an overview of the arts in the Western tradition within the contexts of the philosophy, religion, aesthetic theory, economics, and politics surrounding them. It is an historical introduction to the humanities yielding a basic familiarity with major ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.18! \| first editions
14 view cover	Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters more books like this by David Hockney David Hockney takes us on an enthralling intellectual and visual journey as he rewrites the story of how the great drawings and paintings of the last six centuries were created. He demonstrates for the first time how artists as far back as the 15th century used mirrors and lenses to project colour images onto flat surfaces and then captured these ... see all copies from £17.46! new only from £19.89! \| first editions
15 view cover	Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I more books like this by Fred S Kleiner As the market-leading text for the art history survey course, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES has served as a comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted guide to the defining phases of the world's artistic tradition. The story of art unfolds in its full historical, social, religious, economic, and cultural context, deepening students' understanding of ... see all copies from £6.11! new only from £43.07! \| first editions
16 view cover	Art of Seeing more books like this by Paul Zelanski This best-selling exploration of traditional and contemporary art and artistic media focuses on art from the artistsO point of view." KEY TOPICS: " Using an engaging, readable style, this book quotes artists themselves who explain what they were trying to do in their art. Emphasizing aesthetics and art techniques, the book also covers the ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £23.30! \| first editions
17 view cover	Painted Word more books like this by Tom James Wolfe In this collection of satiric essays, Tom Wolfe slings mud at the masters of the 1990s avante-garde scene. He burlesques famous critiques of various works and deems renowned art theorists, such as Harold Rosenberg and Leo Steinberg, to be charlatans who are more influential than the artists themselves. see all copies from £2.07! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Art as Experience more books like this by John Dewey Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, "Art as Experience" has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £10.21! \| first editions
19 view cover	The story of painting more books like this by Wendy Beckett, Sister Through more than 450 masterpieces, the author unfolds the story of 800 years of Western painting from Giotto, the Renaissance and Impressionism, to Pop Art and the present day. Sister Wendy scrutinizes in depth 50 of the world's most famous paintings, among them Picasso's "The Nude Woman", Monet's "The Waterlily Pond", and Botticelli's "The Birth ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £21.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture more books like this by Marita Sturken, Lisa Cartwright This comprehensive and engaging introduction to visual culture provides an overview of a range of theories about how we understand visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to experience pleasure, and to learn. Using over 175 illustrations, Professors Sturken and Cartwright examine how images - paintings, prints, ... see all copies from £19.03! new only from £25.33!
21 view cover	Adventures in Art more books like this by Laura H Chapman LEVEL: Key Stage 1. Provides the most comprehensive taxonomy of skills, topics, and media available. In addition to exploring drawing, painting, sculpture, and architecture at each grade level, 'Adventures in Art' also supports the study of printmaking, crafts, graphic design, fibre arts, and photography. 'Adventures in Art' provides an age ... see all copies from £2.11! new only from £5.29! \| first editions
22 view cover	Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being more books like this by Jonathan Fineberg This survey looks at art from 1940 to the present as an accumulation of unique contributions by individual artists. These are examined in depth together with chapters which concern the broader context of the past six decades. The book attempts a balanced perspective on art in Europe and America by the inclusion of black, Hispanic and women artists ... see all copies from £16.26! new only from £16.26!
23 view cover	Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light more books like this by Dr. Leonard Shlain Art interprets the visible world, physics charts its unseen workings--making the two realms seem completely opposed. But in "Art & Physics, "Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From teh classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £7.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	After Modern Art: 1945-2000 more books like this by David Hopkins Modern and contemporary art can be both baffling and beautiful, it can also be innovative, political, and disturbing. Closely informed by critical approaches, this book sets out to provide a concise interpretation of this period. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, and Damien Hirst are among many artists discussed, within the political ... see all copies from £7.30! new only from £10.60! \| first editions
25 view cover	About Looking more books like this by John Berger John Berger writes eloquently about the role of the viewer in looking at works of art--or indeed at anything. His ruminations take him not only to museums but to zoos and photography archives. Berger, who began his career as a painter, won sometimes controversial acclaim as an art critic during his 10-year stint at the New Statesman, where he ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.82! \| first editions

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