Aesthetics from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. Coth, xi, 263 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most prized possessions are those that have had a long… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 186 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. "Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals… Read more about this item

Port Townsend, WA: Bay Press, 1985. 243 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, expected browning. First paperback edition, with blueish-green wraps. Foster argues in favour of a politically-progressive, adversarial notion of postmodernism. Most of these essays originally appeared in Art in America. "For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed… Read more about this item

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980. Cloth, xx, 251 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover. A near-fine copy of the first printing, age toning. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001. xix, 706 pages; 25 cm. A good+ copy with miniscule notes on the back flyleaf. Spine slightly cocked/lean. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Terrific anthology. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Gallery at the American Bible Society, 2004. Pictorial boards, 200 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "This publication is the outcome of the symposia series New Directions in the Study of Art and Religion. This three-year project was organized by The Gallery at the American Bible Society and sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc." -… Read more about this item

New York: Copernicus, 1996. xxii, 482 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Since the Enlightenment, science has been seen as an objective, true method of explanation for the physical and mathematical laws which govern the universe. This book examines… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cloth, xcix, 782 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** Please note: Volume One only ***. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967. xxiv, 264 pages, 168 illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1964, XXXV, 13. Tight, clean copy. "An acclaimed art historian explains how to identify excellence in artIn this book, Jakob Rosenberg takes up the timeless problem of how to make a valid judgment about artistic quality. In… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. xv, 354 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Leonardo Book Series. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. A solid copy, lacking the DJ. "This work explores the characteristics distinctive to new media art, including its immateriality and its questioning of time and space, and relates them to such contemporary art forms as… Read more about this item

New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. xiii, 129 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 20 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Art has the power to change our lives. For many, becoming an artist is a lifelong dream. But how to make it happen? In How to Be an Artist,… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013. xii, 361 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. ""Contemporary art in the early twenty-first century is often discussed as though it were a radically new phenomenon unmoored from history.… Read more about this item

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. Pictorial boards, x, 227 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Examines art that stands outside the margins of the art world, the critical and cultural conditions that made this exclusion possible, and how its recognition radically transforms our understanding of contemporary art"--Provided by publisher. CONTENTS: Modern foundations of the art world;… Read more about this item

Lewisburg, PA and London, England: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses, 1995. Cloth, 402 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This interdisciplinary collection differs from other collections of essays on literature and the visual arts in its emphasis on the image as… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1968. Cloth, 806 pages; 24 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Enlightenment; Reaction and recovery: the early nineteenth century; Rise of racial determinism; Spencerism; Evolutionism: methods; The evolutionists: results; Dialectical materialism; Historical particularism:… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1956. 187 pages; 18 cm. A72. Translated from the Spanish by Willard R. Trask. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. CONTENTS: The dehumanization of art; Notes on the novel; On point of view in the arts; In search of Goethe from within; The self and the other. . 1st. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Illus. by… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. DJ in mylar. "For a woman in the Western world, there's no escaping beauty. She has it or she doesn't. If she doesn't, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will… Read more about this item

New York: Allworth Press, 2000. xxxii, 319 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "In essays culled from three decades of critical writing, Donald Kuspit explores the aesthetic developments of the twentieth century, from post-impressionism to the latest permutation of post-Modernism. Ranging from Willem de Kooning to Andy Warhol to Sue Coe, this provocative anthology chronicles the distinctive voice of… Read more about this item

Reston, VA: National Art Education Association (NAEA), 1990. xiii, 278 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "A landmark study addressing the need to focus on the rich heritage of minority ethnic groups, including Black, Hispanic, and Native American, among others. A compilation of 20 chapters on a variety of aspects of art education for students… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989. Cloth, xvi, 269 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "A general overview of the theoretical and institutional history of the discipline of art history. Refuting the image of art history as a discipline in crisis, Preziosi asserts that… Read more about this item