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Jimi Hendrix: Black Legacy
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The Lives of the Artists
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Aesthetica
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Aesthetic Theory
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
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The Republic
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Tweeting Da Vinci
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The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
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Re-Enchantment
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James Elkins (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Ion
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Exploring Folk Art
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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Poetics
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Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Keepers of Tradition: Art and Folk Heritage in Massachusetts
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Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends
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Critique of Judgment
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How Music Dies (or Lives): Field Recording and the Battle for Democracy in the Arts
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3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
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The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
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In Celebration of a Legacy: The Traditional Arts of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
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George Mitchell (Goodreads Author)
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The Philosophy of Art (Volume 58) (Theory and History of Literature)
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3.88 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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History of the Art of Antiquity
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3.87 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
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4.06 avg rating — 390 ratings
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
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3.93 avg rating — 3,171 ratings
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Gullah Cultural Legacies: A Synopsis of Gullah Traditions, Customary Beliefs, Art Forms and Speech on Hilton Head Island and Vicinal Sea Islands in South Carolina and Georgia
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3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
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3.90 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art
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The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (Brown Thrasher Books)
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Diderot on Art, Volume I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting (Salon of 1765 & Notes on Painting)
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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Diderot on Art, Volume II: The Salon of 1767
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4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Jackie Tales: Magic of H
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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De la littérature
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3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists
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4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings
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On Art and Life
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The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry (Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts)
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Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art
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3.86 avg rating — 425 ratings
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Re-Situating Folklore: Folk Contexts And Twentieth-Century Literature And Art
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Analysis of Beauty
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3.57 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
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William Morris on Art and Socialism
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3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Spirit of Folk Art
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4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings
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What Is Art?
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3.73 avg rating — 3,572 ratings
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Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife
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Daniel W. Patterson (Editor)
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Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
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3.87 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
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Lewis Hyde (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,009 ratings
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Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance
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Earth Is My Mother, Sky Is My Father: Space, Time, and Astronomy in Navajo Sandpainting
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Meaning in the Visual Arts
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Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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George E. Lankford (Editor)
4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Perspective as Symbolic Form
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The First Artists: In Search of the World's Oldest Art
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Idea: A Concept in Art Theory
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4.01 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture
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Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History
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Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe
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Writings on Art and Literature
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (Editor)
4.43 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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The Field Researcher's Handbook: A Guide to the Art and Science of Professional Fieldwork
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David J. Danelo (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Hubungan Estetik Seni dengan Realitas
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The Art and Archaeology of Florida's Wetlands
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Sanat ve Toplumsal Hayat
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
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Studies in European Realism
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Hidden Thunder: Rock Art of the Upper Midwest
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The Meaning of Contemporary Realism
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Maya Art and Architecture
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The Historical Novel
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Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
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Carl Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
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Indian Art of Ancient Florida
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
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The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
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Gaylord Torrence (Editor)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Culture Industry
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Canvas of Clay: Seven Centuries of Hopi Ceramic Art
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Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions (Shire Library USA, 640)
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Aesthetics and Politics
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Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series)
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The Principle of Hope, Vol. 1
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Culture: Leading Scientists Explore Societies, Art, Power, and Technology (Best of Edge Series)
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The Story of Art
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Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World: Featuring the Robert M. Zingg Collection of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
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Melissa S. Powell (Editor)
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
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The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
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The Philosophy of Art History
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Beauty From the Earth: Pueblo Indian Pottery from the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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The Sociology of Art
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Stories in Stone: Rock Art Pictures by Early Americans
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Caroline Arnold (Goodreads Author)
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The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
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What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity
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Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays
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Landscape Archaeology between Art and Science: From a Multi- to an Interdisciplinary Approach
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Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and Histories of Art
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