Art Philosophy Books

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What Comes After Farce
What Comes After Farce 3.92 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism
Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism 4.39 avg rating — 143 ratings
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What Art Is
What Art Is 3.68 avg rating — 886 ratings
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What Is Art?
What Is Art? 3.73 avg rating — 3,537 ratings
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Art
Art 3.68 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Geometry of the Last Supper: Leonardo da Vinci's hidden composition and its symbolism
The Geometry of the Last Supper: Leonardo da Vinci's hidden composition and its symbolism 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?
Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse? 3.50 avg rating — 690 ratings
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In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art
In the Mind But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,445 ratings
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The Future of the Image
The Future of the Image 3.74 avg rating — 545 ratings
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Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 89 ratings
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity 4.30 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
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The Postconceptual Condition
The Postconceptual Condition 3.12 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art
Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art
by: E-Flux
4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Letters to a Young Poet
Letters to a Young Poet 4.28 avg rating — 113,831 ratings
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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art
Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art 3.86 avg rating — 421 ratings
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Aesthetics and Politics
Aesthetics and Politics 4.12 avg rating — 2,296 ratings
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Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship 4.15 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency
Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency 3.81 avg rating — 186 ratings
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The Art-Architecture Complex
The Art-Architecture Complex 4.01 avg rating — 180 ratings
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In the Flow
In the Flow really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition
Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition 3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art
Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art 3.93 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Emancipated Spectator
The Emancipated Spectator 4.01 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
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The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present
The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Create Dangerously
Create Dangerously 3.85 avg rating — 4,857 ratings
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How to Write About Contemporary Art
How to Write About Contemporary Art 4.15 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Becoming a Bird: Untold stories about art
Becoming a Bird: Untold stories about art 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Idea: A Concept in Art Theory
Idea: A Concept in Art Theory 3.99 avg rating — 153 ratings
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What Is Art and 100 other very important questions
What Is Art and 100 other very important questions 3.40 avg rating — 178 ratings
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What is Contemporary Art?
What is Contemporary Art? 3.74 avg rating — 66 ratings
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What Is Art? Conversations with Joseph Beuys
What Is Art? Conversations with Joseph Beuys 4.22 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Ways of Curating
Ways of Curating 3.92 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
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The Extreme Self
The Extreme Self 4.05 avg rating — 391 ratings
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100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists 4.04 avg rating — 457 ratings
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Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays
Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays 3.63 avg rating — 673 ratings
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Art
Art 3.68 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism
Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Languages of Art
Languages of Art 3.87 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Art and the aesthetic: An institutional analysis
Art and the aesthetic: An institutional analysis 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology 3.70 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Mind and its Place in Nature
The Mind and its Place in Nature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition
The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition 4.22 avg rating — 105 ratings
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How to Do Things with Words
How to Do Things with Words 3.90 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
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Proof of an External World
Proof of an External World 2.92 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Essential Davidson
The Essential Davidson 4.15 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine 4.27 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind 3.93 avg rating — 1,747 ratings
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The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy
The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy 3.91 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations 4.26 avg rating — 15,519 ratings
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.10 avg rating — 21,775 ratings
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Basic Writings
Basic Writings 3.89 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Writing and Difference
Writing and Difference really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,884 ratings
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Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments 4.11 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
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Phenomenology of Perception
Phenomenology of Perception 4.18 avg rating — 6,330 ratings
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The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas.
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. 3.68 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Being and Nothingness
Being and Nothingness 3.99 avg rating — 34,130 ratings
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life 4.16 avg rating — 9,939 ratings
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The Ethics of Ambiguity
The Ethics of Ambiguity 4.17 avg rating — 7,753 ratings
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The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering 3.83 avg rating — 1,517 ratings
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Critique of Practical Reason
Critique of Practical Reason 3.94 avg rating — 11,653 ratings
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy 4.03 avg rating — 789 ratings
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What is Called Thinking?
What is Called Thinking? 4.11 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 3.86 avg rating — 17,027 ratings
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,939 ratings
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically 3.80 avg rating — 3,720 ratings
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The Basic Works of Aristotle
The Basic Works of Aristotle
by: Aristotle
4.24 avg rating — 2,452 ratings
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The Essential Kierkegaard
The Essential Kierkegaard 4.20 avg rating — 1,991 ratings
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Reasons and Persons
Reasons and Persons 4.27 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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No Exit
No Exit 4.11 avg rating — 44,799 ratings
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A Treatise of Human Nature
A Treatise of Human Nature 3.95 avg rating — 12,538 ratings
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The Metaphysics of Morals
The Metaphysics of Morals 3.94 avg rating — 2,724 ratings
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Death
Death
by: Todd May
3.80 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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What We Owe to Each Other
What We Owe to Each Other 3.85 avg rating — 646 ratings
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Being and Time
Being and Time 4.05 avg rating — 27,065 ratings
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Art Since 1960
Art Since 1960 3.66 avg rating — 216 ratings
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What Is Contemporary Art?
What Is Contemporary Art? 3.88 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists 4.04 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol 3.84 avg rating — 47,986 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating — 418,783 ratings
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On Photography
On Photography 3.88 avg rating — 54,141 ratings
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media 4.08 avg rating — 23,854 ratings
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Relational Aesthetics
Relational Aesthetics 3.69 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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About Looking
About Looking 4.09 avg rating — 9,052 ratings
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation 4.04 avg rating — 6,024 ratings
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The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century 4.05 avg rating — 529 ratings
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After the End of Art
After the End of Art 4.03 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections 4.29 avg rating — 12,262 ratings
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Art and Fear
Art and Fear 3.77 avg rating — 100,504 ratings
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Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas 3.97 avg rating — 10,234 ratings
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Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War 4.12 avg rating — 771 ratings
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The Society of the Spectacle
The Society of the Spectacle 4.03 avg rating — 22,634 ratings
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The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New 3.74 avg rating — 35,752 ratings
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Art and Culture: Critical Essays
Art and Culture: Critical Essays 3.87 avg rating — 562 ratings
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The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture 3.97 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
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Aesthetic Theory
Aesthetic Theory 4.14 avg rating — 2,572 ratings
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On Painting
On Painting 3.88 avg rating — 1,281 ratings