A critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and artWhen you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? …
A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color …
A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color …
A magisterial exploration of poetry's place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poetsIn this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and …
A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Etienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings …
A groundbreaking account of perception and art, from one of the twentieth century's most important art historiansE. H. Gombrich is widely considered to be one of the most …
The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the …
This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth …
One of the twentieth century’s most influential texts on philosophical aestheticsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim’s encompassing vision of how to view …
A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings …
