Formalism (Art)
Here are entered works discussing art emphasizing its structure, style or artistic means rather than its contents.
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How Divine Images Became Art: Essays on the Rediscovery, Study and Collecting of Medieval Icons in the Belle Époque (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2024), by O. I︠U︡. Tarasov, trans. by Stella Rock (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
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Filed under: Art for art's sake (Movement)- Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Elsie Bonita Adams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
- Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
- A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mémoires: Collection in 8o (Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts) (partial serial archives)
- Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
- Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
- Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
- Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
- Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
- Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
- An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
- "Civilidad y Arte": Discursos de Instalación de la "Academia de Bellas Artes" y de Presentación de sus Fundadores (in Spanish; Asunción, 1909), by Juan Silvano Godoi and Viriato Díaz-Pérez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
- The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
- Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
- The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
- Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)
- Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964-2005: A Bibliography (c2006), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by John Philip O'Neill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages (new edition; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: William Heinemann, 1917), by Salomon Reinach, trans. by Florence Simmonds (PDF at djm.cc)
- Guggenheim International Award, 1964 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1963), ed. by Lawrence Alloway (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Guggenheim International Award, 1960 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1960), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Guggenheim International Award, 1958 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1958), ed. by Louise Averill Svendsen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1971), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Thomas M. Messer, Linda Shearer, and Diane Waldman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)
- Negro Art in the Belgian Congo (fourth edition; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1958), by Léon Kochnitzky (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Airborne Particles in Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1993), by W. W. Nazaroff, Mary P. Ligocki, Lynn G. Salmon, Glen Rowan Cass, Theresa Fall, Michael C. Jones, Harvey I. H. Liu, and Timothy Ma (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- Conflict and Cultural Heritage: A Moral Analysis of the Challenges of Heritage Protection (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, c2019), by Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers (HTML and EPub with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
- A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (3 volumes; 1885-1903), by Luigi Palma di Cesnola
- L'Art Gothique et la Renaissance en Chypre (2 volumes in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1899), by Camille Enlart
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1873), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
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