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Mr. Danto argues that recent developments in the artworld, in particular the production of works of art that cannot be t

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The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art
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The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urb

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The distinctive feature of this book is its ingenious argumentative strategy: it takes on the political by developing a

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A. L. Frothingham, one of the founding fathers of Art History as a discipline, answers the question “What is Art?”

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Simon Lee examines Jesus' transfiguration story found in the narrative account of Mark, tracing the development of

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Foucault’s Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity tells the story of how art shed the tasks with which it had tradi

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In Art of the Ordinary, Deming brings together the arts, philosophy, and psychology in new and compelling ways so as to

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No longer confined to traditional institutions devoted to Talmudic studies, havruta work, or the practice of students st

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The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive fra

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What impact are we having on the environment around us? How can we limit the effect of human life on the natural world?

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