Art criticism
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Literature through art
October
Art appreciation
Visual theory
The science of art
Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918
Meditations on a hobby horse, and other essays on the theory of art
Making up the rococo
Robert Motherwell
Image, Action, and Idea in Contemporary Jewish Art
Art in theory, 1815-1900
Art and architecture in the Islamic tradition
Discovering child art
The Sistine Chapel
The rescue of Romanticism
J.M.W. Turner
Arts Prospect
Our living Earth
Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 61
The great empires of Asia
Perceiving the arts
The uses of images
Georgia O'Keeffe
The trickster shift
American painting
After the end of art
The critical imagination
Robert Lehman lectures on contemporary art
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Latino Art
Theorizing modernism
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