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Art Studies in Social Science and Humanities
1.
Jimi Hendrix: Black Legacy
by:
Corey A. Washington
4.58 avg rating β 26 ratings
2.
The Lives of the Artists
by:
Giorgio Vasari
3.77 avg rating β 32,496 ratings
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Aesthetica
by:
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
3.26 avg rating β 19 ratings
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Aesthetic Theory
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.14 avg rating β 2,572 ratings
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
by:
JosΓ© Ortega y Gasset
3.81 avg rating β 1,324 ratings
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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by:
Rudolf Arnheim
4.08 avg rating β 3,946 ratings
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The Republic
by:
Plato
3.96 avg rating β 220,180 ratings
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Tweeting Da Vinci
by:
Ann C. Pizzorusso
4.24 avg rating β 29 ratings
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The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
by:
Bruce Jackson
4.03 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Re-Enchantment
by:
James Elkins
4.13 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Ion
by:
Plato
3.58 avg rating β 3,370 ratings
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Exploring Folk Art
by:
Michael Owen Jones
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
by:
Wassily Kandinsky
3.84 avg rating β 90,607 ratings
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Poetics
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Aristotle
3.83 avg rating β 28,471 ratings
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Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
by:
Bill Ivey
3.88 avg rating β 93 ratings
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.08 avg rating β 23,854 ratings
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Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts
by:
Maggie Holtzberg
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends
by:
Jan Harold Brunvand
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Critique of Judgment
by:
Immanuel Kant
4.09 avg rating β 9,512 ratings
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How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts
by:
Ian Brennan
3.58 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
by:
Immanuel Kant
3.56 avg rating β 1,096 ratings
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The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness
by:
Steven J. Zeitlin
3.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
by:
Friedrich Schiller
3.94 avg rating β 1,789 ratings
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In Celebration of a Legacy: The Traditional Arts of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
by:
George Mitchell
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art (Volume 58) (Theory and History of Literature)
by:
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
3.88 avg rating β 109 ratings
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Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South
by:
John A. Burrison
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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History of the Art of Antiquity
by:
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
3.84 avg rating β 58 ratings
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
by:
Jack D. Zipes
4.06 avg rating β 388 ratings
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
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Jacob Burckhardt
3.93 avg rating β 3,148 ratings
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Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia
by:
Emory S. Campbell
3.94 avg rating β 17 ratings
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
by:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3.90 avg rating β 1,080 ratings
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
by:
Art Rosenbaum
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art
by:
Hippolyte Taine
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 80 ratings
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The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Brown Thrasher Books)
by:
John Michael Vlach
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Diderot on Art, Volume I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting (Salon of 1765 & Notes on Painting)
by:
Denis Diderot
3.57 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by:
Susan Milbrath
4.42 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Diderot on Art, Volume II: The Salon of 1767
by:
Denis Diderot
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Jackie Tales: Magic of H
by:
Jackie Torrence
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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De la littΓ©rature
by:
Madame de StaΓ«l
3.71 avg rating β 35 ratings
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The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists
by:
William Ferris
4.30 avg rating β 47 ratings
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On Art and Life
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John Ruskin
3.83 avg rating β 1,115 ratings
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The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry (Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts)
by:
Daniel W. Patterson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art
by:
Heinrich WΓΆlfflin
3.86 avg rating β 421 ratings
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Re-Situating Folklore: Folk Contexts And Twentieth-Century Literature And Art
by:
F.A. De Caro
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Analysis of Beauty
by:
William Hogarth
3.56 avg rating β 64 ratings
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Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
by:
Dale Rosengarten
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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William Morris on Art and Socialism
by:
William Morris
3.92 avg rating β 36 ratings
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Spirit of Folk Art
by:
Henry Glassie
4.42 avg rating β 26 ratings
49.
What Is Art?
by:
Leo Tolstoy
3.73 avg rating β 3,537 ratings
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Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife
by:
Daniel W. Patterson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
by:
Erwin Panofsky
3.86 avg rating β 384 ratings
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
by:
Lewis Hyde
4.18 avg rating β 1,980 ratings
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Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
by:
Erwin Panofsky
4.22 avg rating β 1,035 ratings
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Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting
by:
Trudy Griffin-Pierce
3.97 avg rating β 29 ratings
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
by:
Erwin Panofsky
4.14 avg rating β 671 ratings
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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
by:
George E. Lankford
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Perspective as Symbolic Form
by:
Erwin Panofsky
4.10 avg rating β 639 ratings
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The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art
by:
Paul G. Bahn
4.17 avg rating β 41 ratings
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Idea: A Concept in Art Theory
by:
Erwin Panofsky
3.99 avg rating β 153 ratings
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Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture
by:
Andrea Stone
4.61 avg rating β 46 ratings
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Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History
by:
Michael Ann Holly
3.67 avg rating β 24 ratings
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Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe
by:
Paul G. Bahn
4.14 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Writings on Art and Literature
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.97 avg rating β 252 ratings
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
by:
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.43 avg rating β 605 ratings
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
by:
Oscar Wilde
3.92 avg rating β 6,138 ratings
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The Field Researcher's Handbook: A Guide to the Art and Science of Professional Fieldwork
by:
David J. Danelo
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Hubungan Estetik Seni dengan Realitas
by:
Nikolai Chernyshevsky
3.90 avg rating β 20 ratings
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The Art and Archaeology of Florida's Wetlands
by:
Barbara A. Purdy
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Sanat ve Toplumsal Hayat
by:
Georgiy ValentinoviΓ§ Plehanov
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
by:
James Clifford
4.04 avg rating β 316 ratings
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Studies in European Realism
by:
GyΓΆrgy LukΓ‘cs
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 40 ratings
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Hidden Thunder: Rock Art of the Upper Midwest
by:
Geri Schrab
3.95 avg rating β 19 ratings
73.
The Meaning of Contemporary Realism
by:
GyΓΆrgy LukΓ‘cs
3.42 avg rating β 97 ratings
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Maya Art and Architecture
by:
Mary Ellen Miller
3.86 avg rating β 72 ratings
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The Historical Novel
by:
GyΓΆrgy LukΓ‘cs
3.91 avg rating β 224 ratings
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
by:
Carl Hoffman
3.66 avg rating β 5,382 ratings
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.08 avg rating β 23,854 ratings
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Indian Art of Ancient Florida
by:
Barbara A. Purdy
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.29 avg rating β 12,262 ratings
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The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
by:
Gaylord Torrence
4.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Culture Industry
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.05 avg rating β 5,725 ratings
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Canvas of Clay: Seven Centuries of Hopi Ceramic Art
by:
Edwin L. Wade
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions (Shire Library USA, 640)
by:
Carol Hayes
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
84.
Aesthetics and Politics
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.12 avg rating β 2,296 ratings
84.
Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series)
by:
John W. Verano
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1
by:
Ernst Bloch
4.16 avg rating β 171 ratings
86.
Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology (Best of Edge Series)
by:
John Brockman
3.60 avg rating β 143 ratings
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The Story of Art
by:
E.H. Gombrich
3.96 avg rating β 448,877 ratings
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Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World: Featuring the Robert M. Zingg Collection of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
by:
Melissa S. Powell
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by:
E.H. Gombrich
4.04 avg rating β 6,024 ratings
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The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
by:
Benita Eisler
4.08 avg rating β 13 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art History
by:
Arnold Hauser
3.49 avg rating β 70 ratings
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Beauty From the Earth: Pueblo Indian Pottery from the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
by:
J.J. Brody
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Sociology of Art
by:
Arnold Hauser
3.81 avg rating β 16 ratings
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Stories in Stone: Rock Art Pictures by Early Americans
by:
Caroline Arnold
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
by:
Arnold Hauser
4.12 avg rating β 295 ratings
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
by:
Jean Clottes
4.30 avg rating β 117 ratings
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Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays
by:
Linda Nochlin
4.26 avg rating β 387 ratings
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Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach
by:
Sjoerd J. Kluiving
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art
by:
Griselda Pollock
4.15 avg rating β 382 ratings
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