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The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

The ancient phonograph / Shane Butler.

People's books

An introduction to the experimental psychology of beauty / by C.W. Valentine.

xxii, 2 unnumbered pages, 153 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, folded frontispiece & plates ; (4to)

The analysis of beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / By William Hogarth.

Turning images in philosophy, science, and religion : a new book of nature / edited by Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans.

Eve Gardiner.

<p>Lavishly illustrated with more than 100 images, "Body Modern" imaginatively explores the relationship between conceptual image, image production, and embodied experience, offering the first in-depth critical study of Fritz Kahn and his visual rhetoric. Michael Sappol concludes that Kahn's illustrations pose profound and unsettling epistemological questions about the construction and performance of the self.</p>

xv, 247 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Body modern : Fritz Kahn, scientific illustration, and the homuncular subject / Michael Sappol.

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-

pages [92]-115 : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm

Verbal wit as a paradigm of art : the aesthetic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) / E.H. Gombrich.

The aesthetic as the science of expression and of the linguistic in general / Benedetto Croce ; translated by Colin Lyas.

xvi, 484 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait (engraving) ; 23 cm (8vo)

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The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

The ancient phonograph / Shane Butler.

An introduction to the experimental psychology of beauty / by C.W. Valentine.

The analysis of beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / By William Hogarth.

Turning images in philosophy, science, and religion : a new book of nature / edited by Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans.

Eve Gardiner.

Body modern : Fritz Kahn, scientific illustration, and the homuncular subject / Michael Sappol.

Verbal wit as a paradigm of art : the aesthetic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) / E.H. Gombrich.

The aesthetic as the science of expression and of the linguistic in general / Benedetto Croce ; translated by Colin Lyas.

Elements of criticism / By Henry Home, Lord Kames.

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The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.

The ancient phonograph / Shane Butler.

An introduction to the experimental psychology of beauty / by C.W. Valentine.

The analysis of beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste / By William Hogarth.

Turning images in philosophy, science, and religion : a new book of nature / edited by Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans.

Eve Gardiner.

Body modern : Fritz Kahn, scientific illustration, and the homuncular subject / Michael Sappol.

Verbal wit as a paradigm of art : the aesthetic theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) / E.H. Gombrich.

The aesthetic as the science of expression and of the linguistic in general / Benedetto Croce ; translated by Colin Lyas.

Elements of criticism / By Henry Home, Lord Kames.

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