Art Theory


Ways of Seeing
On Photography
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Interaction of Color
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Relational Aesthetics
About Looking
Art and Fear
The Story of Art
After the End of Art
The Society of the Spectacle
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas
The Return of the Real: Art and Theory at the End of the Century
What Comes After Farce by Hal FosterPotential History by Ariella Aïsha AzoulayWhat Art Is by Arthur C. DantoWhat Is Art? by Leo TolstoyArt by Clive Bell
Art Philosophy Books
97 books — 6 voters
The Judgment of Paris by Ross KingOf the Standard of Taste by David HumeThe Abuse of Beauty by Arthur C. DantoThe Transfiguration of the Commonplace by DantoWhat Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
My Exploration on Art Theory
24 books — 3 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleySiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Stranger by Albert Camus
These Books Made an IMPACT
136 books — 143 voters
River of Shadows by Rebecca SolnitMatter and Memory by Henri BergsonPhotography, Cinema, Memory by Damian SuttonShort Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy EganCreative Evolution by Henri Bergson
Photographic Time
33 books — 2 voters

Wyndham Lewis
Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Wyndham Lewis

Because most art relies upon sensorial cues, most art is a manifestation of empiricism. The senses form the tools that allow both the artist and the scientist to understand the nature of their subject. Observable data, and the interpretation of that observable data, is as fundamental to an artist as it is to a scientist.
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