If you are enrolled or planning to enroll in a Violette de Mazia Foundation course, consult the following reading lists to learn which texts you will need.

Bibliography for Informed Perception:

An Objective Approach to Aesthetic Appreciation

• REQUIRED TEXTS:

Barnes, Albert C. The Art in Painting. ©1925, 1928, 1937, 1953, © 1956, 1965 by The Barnes Foundation, Fourth printing, Merion Station, PA: The Barnes Foundation, 1976.

• SUGGESTED TEXTS:

Dewey, John. Art as Experience. © 1934 by John Dewey, Eleventh impression, New York: Capricorn Books, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958.

• THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF POSSIBLE RESOURCES FOR THE SEMINAR. (ADDITIONS ARE WELCOME):

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature. New York: Dutton Books, 1979.

Barzun, Jacques. The Use and Abuse of Art. Princeton University Press, 1974.

Berger, John. About Looking. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.

Booth, Eric. The Everyday Work of Art. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 1997.

Buber, Martin. I and Thou. New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1958.

Cheney, Sheldon. Expressionism in Art. Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1948.

Croce, Benedetto. Aesthetic As Science of Expression and General Linguistic. Transaction Publishers, Inc., New York, 1955.

Croce, Benedetto (1948). On the aesthetics of John Dewey. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, VI(3), 203-207.

Croce, Benedetto. (1952). Dewey’s Aesthetics and Theory of Knowledge. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. XI(1), 1-6.

Chipp, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

Danto, Arthur C. Beyond the Brillo Box. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.

Dewey, John. (1960) How We Think. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath. (Original work published in 1916)

Dewey, John. (1966) Democracy and Education. New York: Macmillan. (Original work published in 1916)
Fry, Roger. Vision and Design. ed. J. B. Bullen. Oxford University Press, 1981.

Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Goldwater, Robert. Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century. Glenview, Illinois: Pantheon Books, 1945.

Greene, Maxine. Variations on a Blue Guitar. New York, Teachers College Press, 2001.

Harrison, Charles, et. al., eds. Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.

Henri, Robert. The Art Spirit. England: J.B. Lippincott, 1923.

Hoffman, Donald. Visual Intelligence. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.

Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1954

Jung, Carl G. The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, No. 15; The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature. Princeton University Press, 1966.

Kandinsky, Wassily. Concerning the Spiritual in Art. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1977.

May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1975.

Munro, Thomas. The Arts and their Interrelations. The Press of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1949.

Munro, Thomas. Form and Style in the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetic Morphology. The Press of Case Western Reserve University in collaboration with The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1970.

Panofsky, Erwin. Meaning in the Visual Arts. Garden City, NY: Archor Books, 1955.

Peat, F. David. Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. New York: Bantam Books, 1964.

Rosenberg, Harold. The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience. New York: Horizon Press, 1964.

Santayana, George. (1903) Croce’s Aesthetics. The Journal of Comparative Literature, 1(2), 191-195.

Santayana, George. (1904) What is Aesthetics? The Philosophical Review, 13(3), 320-327.

Santayana, George. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory. Dover Publications, Inc. New York, 1955.

Santayana, George. (1955) Reason in Art: Volume four of ‘The Life of Reason’. New York, Dover. (Original work published 1905)

Santayana, George. The Life of Reason. Prometheus Books, New York, 1998.

Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness. New York: Pocket Books, 1993.

Shahn, Ben. The Shape of Content. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957.

Shearer, E. A. (1935a). Dewey’s esthetic theory. I. The Journal of Philosophy, XXXII(23), 617-627).

Shearer, E. A. (1935b). Dewey’s Esthetic Theory. II. The Journal of Philosophy, XXXII(24), 650-654.

Shusterman, Richard. Pragmatist Aesthetics. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1992.

Simoni, F. S. (1952). Benedetto Croce: A Case of International Misunderstanding. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 11(1), 7-14.

Solso, Robert. Cognition and the Visual Arts. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997.

Steinman, J. F. (1971). Santayana and Croce: An Aesthetic Reconciliation. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 30(2), 251-253.

Stravinsky, Igor. Poetics of Music. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. 1947.

Sylester, David. Looking at Giacometti. New York: Henry, Holt and Co., 1994.

Tuchman, Maurice, ed. The Spritual in Art, Abstract Painting 1890-1985. Los Angeles: Abbeyville Press, 1986.

Varnedoe, Kirk. A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1990.

Wallis, Brian, ed. Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1984.

Wolfe, Tom. The Painted Word. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. 1975.

• PUBLISHED BY THE BARNES FOUNDATION PRESS, MERION STATION, PA:

Buermeyer, Laurence. The Aesthetic Experience.

Mullen, Mary. An Approach to Art. (Out of Print)

Dewey, Barnes, Buermeyer, Mullen & de Mazia. Art and Education.

Guillaume, Paul & Munro, Thomas. Primitive Negro Sculpture. (Out of Print)

Barnes, Albert C. & de Mazia, Violette. The French Primitives and Their Forms.

Barnes, Albert C. & de Mazia, Violette. The Art of Renoir.

Barnes, Albert C. & de Mazia, Violette. The Art of Henri-Matisse.

Barnes, Albert C. & de Mazia, Violette. The Art of Cézanne.

The Barnes Foundation Journal of the Art Department,
Vol. I, No. 1, 1970—Vol. IX, No. 2, 1978

• PUBLISHED BY THE V.O.L.N. PRESS, MERION STATION, PA:

Vistas, Vol. I, No. 1, 1979—Vol. V, No. 2, 1991