But Is It Art

• Author : Cynthia Freeland
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release Date : 2002-02-07
• Total pages : 254
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and ...

• Author : Richard Phillips Feynman
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release Date : 1995
• Total pages : 173
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Displays one of America's leading physicist's fascinating development of personal artistic sensitivity to line, form, and the moods of his subject....

• Author : Sarah R. Phillips
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release Date : 2012-02-01
• Total pages : 157
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : A fascinating consideration of the work of life models and the models’ own perspectives on their craft....

• Author : Alix Wood
• Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
• Release Date : 2014-12-15
• Total pages : 32
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Not all art is displayed in a museum. For example, yarn bombing or guerilla knitting grew out of a movement in Texas to use up old yarn. Today, city dwellers might walk outside to find trees, bike racks, or even mail boxes covered by intricately knitted covers. The result is ...

• Author : Stephen Davies
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release Date : 2018-08-06
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : In the last thirty years, work in analytic philosophy of art has flourished, and it has given rise to considerably controversy. Stephen Davies describes and analyzes the definition of art as it has been discussed in Anglo-American philosophy during this period and, in the process, introduces his own perspective on ...

• Author : Michelle Kamhi,Louis Torres
• Publisher : Open Court
• Release Date : 2016-05-26
• Total pages : 450
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : What is art? The arts establishment has a simple answer: anything is art if a reputed artist or expert says it is. Though many people are skeptical about the alleged new art forms that have proliferated since the early twentieth century, today's critics claim that all such work, however incomprehensible, ...

• Author : Alix Wood
• Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
• Release Date : 2014-12-15
• Total pages : 32
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : The most well-known graffiti artist today is Banksy. No one knows who he really is, but his graffiti has appeared in many cities around the world. Sometimes, his work is protected. Other times, city officials mark him as a vandal. Readers are asked to make their own decision about Banksy ...

• Author : Alix Wood
• Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
• Release Date : 2014-12-15
• Total pages : 32
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Some artists believe anything can be art—even trash! Junk sculpture is a new, complex mode of art that combines the wastefulness of modern living with finding beauty in what others consider ugly. Readers learn how artists create such pieces and are asked to consider whether junk sculpture can be ...

• Author : Steven Watts
• Publisher : University of Missouri Press
• Release Date : 2001-10
• Total pages : 526
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Offers an up-close and personal look at the man and mogul behind Disney Studios and the Disney empire through an examination of his work practices, private views, and relationships with family members....

• Author : Maria G. Parani
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release Date : 2003
• Total pages : 417
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : This examination of realia in Byzantine religious painting provides valuable information on Byzantine dress, household effects and implements, while introducing at the same time an alternative, literally 'objective', approach to the study of the formative processes of Byzantine art....

• Author : United States Armed Forces Institute
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1942
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Download or read online Education Manual written by United States Armed Forces Institute, published by which was released on 1942. Get Education Manual Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Rudyard Kipling
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release Date : 2012-08-02
• Total pages : 80
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Treasury of 44 poems recalls British character and attitudes at the height of the Empire. "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever," "If—," "The White Man’s Burden," many others, reprinted from standard texts. Notes....

• Author : Les Gillon
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2017-07-19
• Total pages : 163
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : This book uses an examination of the annual Turner Prize to defend the view that the evaluation of artworks is a reason-based activity, notwithstanding the lack of any agreed criteria for judging excellence in art. It undertakes an empirical investigation of actual critical practice as evident within published commentaries on ...

• Author : Stephanie E. Pitts,Sarah M. Price
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2020-09-23
• Total pages : 234
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Drawing on unique multi-arts, multi-city scholarly research, Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts makes a timely and urgent contribution to debates about the place of arts and culture in contemporary society. The authors critically interrogate the challenges of access, diversity, privilege and responsibility in contemporary art. Asking who benefits from, ...

• Author : Noah Charney
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2022-07-15
• Total pages : 184
• ISBN : 0191504254

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Summary : Interested in art but feel under-informed? Curious but afraid you might not “get” it? Already a fan and wishing to immerse yourself in a fun, engaging, informative and informed read that will refresh and top up your Art History 101 and Introduction to Art courses from college? The 12-Hour Art Expert: ...