Practices of Abstract Art : Between Anarchism and Appropriation. by Wünsche, Isabel

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Meanings of Abstract Art : Between Nature and Theory. by Crowther, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1. …”
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Primary Art: Abstract Art: My Journey.

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Aesthetic theory, abstract art and Lawrence Carroll / by Carrier, David, 1944-

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Why a painting is like a pizza : a guide to understanding and enjoying modern art by Heller, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…Exactly What Is "Abstract" Art? --…”
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Modern theories of art. 2, From impressionism to Kandinsky by Barasch, Moshe

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Phenomenology of modern art : exploding Deleuze, illuminating style by Crowther, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Eight: Deleuze and the Interpretation of Abstract Art --…”
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Reductionism in art and brain science : bridging the two cultures by Kandel, Eric R.

Table of Contents: “…Reductionism in the Emergence of Abstract Art -- Mondrian and the Radical Reduction of the Figurative Image -- The New York School of Painters -- How the Brain Processes and Perceives Abstract Images -- From Figuration to Color Abstraction -- Color and the Brain -- A Focus on Light -- A Reductionist Influence on Figuration -- The Emerging Dialogue Between Abstract Art and Science. …”
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Human capitalism : how economic growth has made us smarter-and more unequal by Lindsey, Brink

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The rise of complexity -- The abstract art of modern living -- Capitalism with a human face -- Class and consciousness -- Inequality as a culture gap -- From convergence to polarization -- Reforming human capitalism -- What lies ahead.…”
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Theory of the art object by Crowther, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Pictorial art and presentness -- Abstract art and transperceptual space -- In and through space : sculpture, assemblage, and installation art -- Land art : reciprocities of site and formation -- Embodiment and architectural cognition -- The aesthetic space of photography -- Digital objects, aesthetic phenomena.…”
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Water and Art. by Clarke, David J. (David James), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Paths to Dissolution: Water and Abstract Art; 4. Raining, Drowning and Swimming: Fu Baoshi and Water; 5. …”
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Phenomenologies of art and vision : a post-analytic turn by Crowther, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Painting as an art: Wollheim and the subjective dimension -- Abstract art and transperceptual space: Wolheim, and beyond -- Truth in art: Heidegger against contextualism -- Space, place, and sculpture: Heidegger's pathways -- Vision in being: Merleau-Ponty and the depths of painting -- Subjectivity, the gaze, and the picture: developing Lacan -- Dimensions in time: Dufrenne's phenomenology of pictorial art -- Conclusion: a preface to post-analytic phenomenology.…”
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The queer composition of America's sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity by Hubbs, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. …”
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The queer composition of America's sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity by Hubbs, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…Modernist abstraction and the abstract art : Four Saints and the queer composition of America's sound -- Being musical : gender, sexuality, and musical identity in twentieth-century America -- Intermezzo. …”
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Expressionism and Film. by Kurtz, Rudolf, 1884-1960

Table of Contents: “…Cover; EXPRESSIONISM AND FILM; Title; Copyright; Forweord; CONTENTS; The Meaning of Expressionism; World View; 1 Art; Literature; Visual Arts; Comparisons; Sculpture; Architecture; Music; Stage; Applied Arts; 2 Film and Expressionism; Set Design; Technology; Camera; Lighting; 3 The Expressionist Film; Caligari; From Morn till Midnight; Genuine; The House on the Moon; Raskolnikow; Waxworks; Expressionist Elements in Film; 4 Abstract Art; Viking Eggeling; Hans Richter; Walter Ruttmann; Fernand Léger; Fernand Picabia; 5 Style in Expressionist Film; Direction; Script; Actors; Set Designers.…”
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Changing seasons : a language arts curriculum for healthy aging by Calhoun, Denise L., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Program; Curriculum Goals; Curriculum Content; Curriculum Implementation; Tips for Facilitators; How to Use This Book; Oral Language; Strategies for Activities and Lessons; Getting Started; Warm-Up Activities; Lessons; Listening; Speaking; Vocabulary Building; Written Language; Activities; Lessons and Steps for Various Writing Styles; Expository Writing; Descriptive Writing; Persuasive Writing; Narrative Writing; Folklore; Poetry; Seasonal Activities; Abstract Art Activities; Appendices.…”
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Computers and the history of art : a subject in transition

Table of Contents: “…; History of Art in the Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities; Animating Art History: Digital Ways of Studying Colour in Abstract Art; The Cathedral as a Virtual Encyclopaedia: Reconstructing the 'Texts' of Chartres Cathedral; With Camera to India, Iran and Afghanistan: Access to Multimedia Sources of Explorer, Professor Dr Morgenstierne (1892-1975); Towards a Yet Newer Laocoon. …”
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Seeing the Invisible : On Kandinsky. by Henry, Michel

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Translatorâ#x80;#x99;s introduction; Introduction; Internal/external: the invisible and the visible; The meaning of â#x80;#x98;abstractâ#x80;#x99; in the expression â#x80;#x98;abstract paintingâ#x80;#x99;; Form; Pure pictorial form; Abstract form: the theory of elements; The disclosure of pictoriality; Point; Line; The picture plane; The unity of the elements; Invisible colours; Forms and colours; Difficulties pertaining to the unity between colours and forms; Composition; Monumental art; Music and painting; The essence of art; All painting is abstract; Art and the cosmos; Endnotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I.…”
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The culture of people's democracy : Hungarian essays on literature, art, and democratic transition, 1945-1948 by Lukács, György, 1885-1971

Table of Contents: “…Supplementary Related Essays, 1947-8Chapter Eleven The Tasks of Marxist Philosophy in the New Democracy; Chapter Twelve On 'Kitsch' and 'Proletcult'; Chapter Thirteen Hungarian Theories of Abstract Art; Chapter Fourteen The Hungarian Communist Party and Hungarian Culture; Chapter Fifteen The Revision of Hungarian Literary History; Historical, Literary, and Biographical Glossary; References; Person Index; Subject Index.…”
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Immortal sofa : poems by Stanton, Maura

Table of Contents: “…Cimetiere Virtual -- Oleander Cloud -- Letter to the Old Magician -- Elegy for Olive -- Abstract Art -- Cocktail Glasses -- Meditation while Cooking Soup -- Beginning Poetry Writing, 1968 -- Greed -- Dream Kitchen -- Little Sonata for Early November -- Cimitiere Virtual -- Immortal Sofa -- Notes -- back cover…”
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Immortal sofa : poems by Stanton, Maura

Table of Contents: “…Cimetiere Virtual -- Oleander Cloud -- Letter to the Old Magician -- Elegy for Olive -- Abstract Art -- Cocktail Glasses -- Meditation while Cooking Soup -- Beginning Poetry Writing, 1968 -- Greed -- Dream Kitchen -- Little Sonata for Early November -- Cimitiere Virtual -- Immortal Sofa -- Notes -- back cover…”
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Changing Seasons A Language Arts Curriculum for Healthy Aging, Revised Edition. by Calhoun, Denise L.

Table of Contents: “…Folklore -- Poetry -- TECHNOLOGY TRAINING -- Basic Functions to Teach for Navigating Video Conferencing Platforms -- Teaching Strategies -- Key Technology Terms -- Video Conferencing Technology Training -- Sample Online Interactive Lessons -- Checking for Understanding -- Challenges -- SEASONAL ACTIVITIES -- ABSTRACT ART ACTIVITIES -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A. …”
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Vision in motion : streams of sensation and configurations of time

Table of Contents: “…Empirical Evidence for the Divergence of Theory and Practice in the Perception of Abstract Art / Laura Commare, Hanna BrinkmannCapturing Motion, Shaping Time: From Chronophotography to Digital Film / Fabienne Liptay; III. …”
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Art in world history by Hollingsworth, Mary

Table of Contents: “…The Challenge of New Materials Architecture and the Industrial Revolution -- The Twentieth Century -- 50. Innovation and Abstraction Art for a New Century -- 51. The Aftermath of the Great War Art Between the Wars -- 52. …”
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A Companion to Fritz Lang. by McElhaney, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Works Cited13 "It Was a Horserace Sorta"; Works Cited; Part Three: Matters of Form; 14 Beyond Destiny and Design; Object Lessons; Patterns and Perspectives; Works Cited; 15 Fritz Lang; The Avant-Garde; Expressionism; the New Objectivity; Object and Hand; Indexicality and the Object; Pattern and Abstraction; Art Objects; Writing, Image, and the Thing; Works Cited; 16 A Stranger in the House; The Foreigner's Gaze; Dangers of Displacement; America on Trial; Rewriting Weimar; Imagined Alliances; The Insider as Outsider; Acknowledgments; 17 Fritz Lang's Modern Character; On "Pure Negativity."…”
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Handbook of the theosophical current

Table of Contents: “…Trompf -- Theosophical attitudes towards science: past and present / Egil Asprem -- Abstract art as "by-product of astral manifestation": the influence of theosophy on modern art in Europe / Tessel M. …”
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Triumph of Modernism : the Art World, 1987'2005. by Kramer, Hilton

Table of Contents: “…; Tate Modern Inside and Out: The Museum as Culture Mall; The Man Who Created MOMA; Does Abstract Art Have a Future?; Index; A Note on the Author.…”
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Northrop Frye on Canada by Frye, Northrop

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Preface -- Credits -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Lord Dufferin -- 2 Characters in Cadence -- 3 Canadian Art in London -- 4 Canadian Water-Colours -- 5 Gordon Webber and Canadian Abstract Art -- 6 Canadian and Colonial Painting -- 7 Contemporary Verse -- 8 Canadian Chapbooks -- 9 Canadian Writing: First Statement -- 10 Canadian Poets: Earle Birney -- 11 Canada and Its Poetry -- 12 A Little Anthology -- 13 Direction -- 14 Water-Colour Annual -- 15 Unit of Five -- 16 Undemocratic Censorship -- 17 Canadian Authors Meet…”
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Primary art : through the hedge.

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60 minutes. Marla

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Marla

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Kandinsky. by Guerman, MikhaÃl̄

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Videofashion news. Volume 37, Episode 35, Museum muses

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Invincible. by Betts, Torben

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Artist in Montreal

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Kazimir Malevich

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Living color : painting, writing, and the bones of seeing by Goldberg, Natalie

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The EYE. Sandra Blow

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Georgia O'Keeffe by Scott, Nancy J., 1949-

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Handbook of reason by Runes, Dagobert D.

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