San Antonio College Library

In these essays, collected over the last twenty years, Danto probes the relationship between philosophy and art, as he has done throughout his career. Danto explores this relationship through an electric mix of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas, or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms. The essays cover a varied terrain, with subjects including Giotto's use of olfactory data in...

This anthology gathers together 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include Daguerre, Niepce, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of the medium, the aesthetic perspective of many influential photographers, and the evolution of critical analysis of the photographic image.

"Paolo Soleri (21 June 1919- 9 April 2013) was an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri was a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006. He died at home of natural causes on 9 April 2013 at the age of 93."--Wikipedia.

"The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered - that truth is made, not found - is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific research on monkeys and apes is arguably the finest scholarship in this tradition. She has carefully studied the publications, the papers, the correspondence, and the history of the expeditions and institutions...

A "retrospective that spans more than thirty years of Dale Chihuly's career in glassblowing and installation ... from his first experiments at the Rhode Island School of Design to his most recent large-scale architectural installations"--Amazon.com.

"This extensively illustrated and elegantly designed volume distills Vincent Scully's incalculable contribution. Neil Levine, a former student of Scully's, has selected twenty essays that reveal the breadth and depth of Scully's work from the 1950s through the 1990s. The pieces are included for their singular contribution to our understanding of modern architecture as well as their relative unavailability to current readers. Levine offers a perceptive...