 | Alfred Gell - Art and anthropology - 1993 - 368 pages
In traditional Polynesian societies, tattooing has played a key role in the social construction of the individual. This is the first study to provide a comparative analysis of ... | |
 | Wassily Kandinsky - Art - 1977 - 114 pages
A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art ... | |
 | Matila Costiescu Ghyka - Mathematics - 1977 - 212 pages
This classic study probes the geometric interrelationships between art and life in discussions ranging from dissertations by Plato, Pythagoras, and Archimedes to examples of ... | |
 | Benedetto Croce - Art - 1992 - 216 pages
Art is shown to be integral to any life and an essential aspect of humanity in this original translation from Italian of the philosopher Benedetto Croce's (1866-1952 ... | |
 | Vera L. Zolberg - Art - 1990 - 270 pages
At a time when a pile of bricks is displayed in a museum, when music is composed for performance underwater, and the boundaries between popular and fine art are fluid ... | |
 | Peter Kivy - Art - 1997 - 260 pages
Kivy proposes a new strategy for defining fine art in a lucid study of literature and music. | |
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