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Art Studies in Social Science and Humanities
100.
Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide
by:
David Grant Noble
4.16 avg rating β 31 ratings
102.
Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Arts Histories
by:
Griselda Pollock
4.23 avg rating β 93 ratings
102.
Cave Art
by:
Bruno David
4.20 avg rating β 80 ratings
104.
The Principles of Art
by:
R.G. Collingwood
3.94 avg rating β 244 ratings
104.
Maya Archaeology 2: Featuring the Ancient Maya Murals of Calakmul, Mexico
by:
Simon Martin
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
106.
Art as Experience
by:
John Dewey
3.94 avg rating β 5,774 ratings
106.
Landscapes of the Itza: Archaeology and Art History at Chichen Itza and Neighboring Sites
by:
Linnea H. Wren
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
108.
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes
by:
Martin Heidegger
3.92 avg rating β 963 ratings
108.
The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69): The Art, Culture, and Science of Painting in an Egyptian Tomb (ARCE)
by:
Melinda K. Hartwig
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
110.
An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture
by:
Ernst Cassirer
3.98 avg rating β 594 ratings
110.
Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE
by:
Melinda K. Hartwig
3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
112.
Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art
by:
Susanne K. Langer
4.10 avg rating β 294 ratings
112.
Early Art of the Southeastern Indians: Feathered Serpents and Winged Beings
by:
Susan C. Power
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings
114.
Feeling and Form
by:
Susanne K. Langer
4.29 avg rating β 113 ratings
114.
Discovering South Carolina's Rock Art
by:
Tommy Charles
3.55 avg rating β 11 ratings
116.
Problems of Art
by:
Susanne K. Langer
3.92 avg rating β 63 ratings
116.
Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
by:
Joan Aruz
4.50 avg rating β 30 ratings
118.
The Art of Mesoamerica: From Olmec to Aztec
by:
Mary Ellen Miller
3.87 avg rating β 339 ratings
119.
The Politics of Aesthetics
by:
Jacques Rancière
3.90 avg rating β 1,708 ratings
119.
Pompeii: The History, Life and Art of the Buried City
by:
Marisa Ranieri Panetta
4.44 avg rating β 63 ratings
121.
The Emancipated Spectator
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Jacques Rancière
4.01 avg rating β 1,207 ratings
121.
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
by:
Gregory Curtis
4.05 avg rating β 511 ratings
123.
Art and its Objects
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Richard Wollheim
3.84 avg rating β 55 ratings
123.
Art and Archaeology of the Erligang Civilization
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Kyle Steinke
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
125.
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
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George Santayana
3.82 avg rating β 342 ratings
125.
The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy
by:
Julia Cooper
3.86 avg rating β 74 ratings
127.
Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam through Time and Place
by:
Katherine Anne Paul
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
128.
Visual Thinking
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Rudolf Arnheim
4.07 avg rating β 680 ratings
128.
A Place Not Forgotten: Landscapes of the South from the Morris Museum of Art
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Univ of Kentucky Art Museum
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
130.
After the End of Art
by:
Arthur C. Danto
4.03 avg rating β 1,037 ratings
130.
How to Talk to Children About Art
by:
FranΓ§oise Barbe-Gall
4.22 avg rating β 376 ratings
132.
What Art Is
by:
Arthur C. Danto
3.68 avg rating β 886 ratings
132.
Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art
by:
Edna G. Bay
3.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
134.
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
by:
Arthur C. Danto
4.11 avg rating β 434 ratings
134.
The Museum of the Senses: Experiencing Art and Collections (Sensory Studies Series)
by:
Constance Classen
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
136.
The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art
by:
Arthur C. Danto
4.07 avg rating β 264 ratings
136.
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
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Stephen F. Eisenman
3.86 avg rating β 7 ratings
138.
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by:
Roland Barthes
3.99 avg rating β 76,121 ratings
138.
God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture
by:
Sheila S. Blair
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
140.
Empire of Signs
by:
Roland Barthes
3.84 avg rating β 2,547 ratings
140.
Talk About Tribal Art
by:
BΓ©rΓ©nice Geoffroy-Schneiter
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
142.
Γsthetic: As science of expression and general linguistic
by:
Benedetto Croce
3.85 avg rating β 89 ratings
142.
Souvenirs of the Fur Trade: Northwest Coast Indian Art and Artifacts Collected by American Mariners 1788-1844
by:
Mary Malloy
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
144.
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
by:
Pierre Bourdieu
4.16 avg rating β 3,482 ratings
144.
The Best Art You've Never Seen: 101 Hidden Treasures from Around the World
by:
Julian Spalding
4.09 avg rating β 58 ratings
146.
The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field
by:
Pierre Bourdieu
4.09 avg rating β 420 ratings
146.
How to Talk to Children About World Art
by:
Isabelle Glorieux-Desouche
4.60 avg rating β 10 ratings
148.
Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance
by:
Howard S. Becker
3.97 avg rating β 1,320 ratings
148.
Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display
by:
Peggy Levitt
4.14 avg rating β 14 ratings
150.
Art Worlds
by:
Howard S. Becker
3.87 avg rating β 332 ratings
150.
Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes
by:
David W. Penney
4.39 avg rating β 18 ratings
152.
The Social Production of Art
by:
Janet Wolff
3.73 avg rating β 70 ratings
152.
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else
by:
David Balzer
3.60 avg rating β 351 ratings
154.
Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art
by:
Janet Wolff
3.48 avg rating β 25 ratings
154.
Woven Identities: Basketry Art of Western North America: Basketry Art of Western North America
by:
Valerie K. Verzuh
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
156.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
by:
Michael Baxandall
3.96 avg rating β 3,002 ratings
156.
Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection
by:
David W. Penney
4.56 avg rating β 9 ratings
158.
Primitive Art
by:
Franz Boas
3.98 avg rating β 95 ratings
158.
Connections: Georgia in the World: The Seventh Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts
by:
Daniel Kurt Ackermann
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
160.
The Ideology of the Aesthetic
by:
Terry Eagleton
4.12 avg rating β 333 ratings
160.
Arts of Korea: Histories, Challenges, and Perspectives (David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series)
by:
Jason Steuber
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
162.
Marxism and Literary Criticism
by:
Terry Eagleton
3.89 avg rating β 1,088 ratings
162.
Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
by:
Alva NoΓ«
3.68 avg rating β 227 ratings
164.
Literary Theory: An Introduction
by:
Terry Eagleton
3.94 avg rating β 5,590 ratings
164.
The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World
by:
Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri
3.84 avg rating β 184 ratings
166.
How to Read Literature
by:
Terry Eagleton
3.69 avg rating β 2,556 ratings
166.
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
by:
Krista Tippett
4.08 avg rating β 5,573 ratings
168.
Marxism and Literature
by:
Raymond Williams
4.07 avg rating β 1,664 ratings
168.
Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
by:
Robert Farris Thompson
4.26 avg rating β 381 ratings
170.
Culture and Society: 1780 - 1950
by:
Raymond Williams
4.04 avg rating β 444 ratings
170.
Think Like an Artist: and Lead a More Creative, Productive Life
by:
Will Gompertz
3.85 avg rating β 2,293 ratings
172.
Constructing a Sociology of the Arts
by:
Vera L. Zolberg
3.76 avg rating β 21 ratings
172.
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
by:
William Ferris
4.15 avg rating β 68 ratings
174.
The New Art History: A Critical Introduction
by:
Jonathan Harris
3.96 avg rating β 24 ratings
174.
Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway: Art and Trash in American Popular Music
by:
Colin Escott
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings
176.
Art History's History
by:
Vernon Hyde Minor
3.78 avg rating β 213 ratings
176.
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940
by:
Robin D. Moore
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 23 ratings
178.
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
by:
Herbert Marcuse
3.88 avg rating β 430 ratings
178.
In Search Of Elvis: Music, Race, Art, Religion
by:
Vernon Chadwick
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 6 ratings
180.
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by:
Fredric Jameson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,446 ratings
180.
Tango: The Art History of Love
by:
Robert Farris Thompson
3.98 avg rating β 94 ratings
182.
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.03 avg rating β 582 ratings
182.
In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work
by:
Anthony DeCurtis
4.10 avg rating β 31 ratings
184.
Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature
by:
Fredric Jameson
4.24 avg rating β 266 ratings
184.
Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East
by:
Sherifa D. Zuhur
3.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
186.
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998
by:
Fredric Jameson
3.94 avg rating β 502 ratings
186.
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
by:
Kay Larson
4.16 avg rating β 752 ratings
188.
Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings
by:
Georg Simmel
4.05 avg rating β 58 ratings
188.
Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature
by:
Charles Rosen
3.90 avg rating β 31 ratings
190.
Uses of Literature
by:
Rita Felski
3.99 avg rating β 317 ratings
190.
African Music: A People's Art
by:
Francis Bebey
3.83 avg rating β 35 ratings
192.
Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry
by:
Christopher Caudwell
4.28 avg rating β 43 ratings
192.
Dolly Parton, Gender, and Country Music
by:
Leigh H. Edwards
3.56 avg rating β 57 ratings
194.
Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture
by:
Christopher Caudwell
3.80 avg rating β 25 ratings
194.
Where the North Sea Touches Alabama
by:
Allen C. Shelton
4.70 avg rating β 10 ratings
196.
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach
by:
Ernst Fischer
3.90 avg rating β 414 ratings
196.
Water Graves: The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean
by:
ValΓ©rie Loichot
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
198.
Ways of Seeing
by:
John Berger
3.93 avg rating β 418,870 ratings
198.
Starstruck in the Promised Land: How the Arts Shaped American Passions about Israel
by:
Shalom Goldman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
200.
Portraits: John Berger on Artists
by:
John Berger
4.31 avg rating β 663 ratings
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