This bibliography covers all books and academic articles referred to on this website. It will be updated regularly.

BOOKS

Barrett, T. (2012). Why is That Art? Aesthetics and Criticism of Contemporary Art. Oxford University Press.

Bunn, S., ed. (2018). Anthropology and Beauty: From Aesthetics to Creativity. Routledge.

Dewey, J. (1934). Art as Experience. G.P. Putnam.

Dutton, D. (2009). The art instinct: Beauty, pleasure, & human evolution. Bloomsbury Press.

Godfrey, T. (2019). The Story of Contemporary Art. The MIT Press.

IDEO LLC (2012). Design Thinking for Educators. IDEO LLC. 

Lent, J. (2021). The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. New Society Publishers.

Quinn, B. (2017). Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in that Order). Chronicle Books.

Shusterman, R. (2000). Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art (2nd ed.) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Varnedoe, K. (2003). Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock. Princeton University Press.

Winner, E. (2018) How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration. Oxford University Press.

ARTICLES / CHAPTERS

Anderson, R. L. (2004). Comparative Aesthetics: The Many Faces of the Muse. In Calliopes Sisters: A Comparative Study of the Philosophies of Art. Prentice Hall (pp. 255-303).

Balling, G. & Juncker, J. (2016). The Value of Art and Culture in Everyday Life: Towards an Expressive Cultural Democracy. The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 46(5), 231-242.

Boden, M. (2018). Creativity and biology. In B. Gaut & M. Keiran (Eds.), Creativity and Philosophy (pp. 173-192). Routledge. 

DeMarrais, E. & Robb, J. (2013). Art makes society: an introductory visual essay. World Art, 3(1), 3-22.

Dissanayake, E. (1980). Art as a Human Behavior: Toward an Ethological View of Art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 38(4), 397-406. 

Dissanayake, E. (1995). Biology and Art: The Implications of Feeling Good. In Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (pp. 24-38). University of Washington Press.

Dissanayake, E. (1995). The Core of Art: Making Special. In Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why (pp. 24-38). University of Washington Press.

Gaut, B. (2018). The Value of Creativity. In B. Gaut B. & Keiran (Eds.), Creativity and Philosophy (pp. 124-139). Routledge.

Gregory, D. (2015). Creativity: Unmasking the Process and Product of Art Educators as Professional Pro-c Artists. In F. Bastos & E. Zimmerman (Eds.), Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education: Foundations, Pedagogies, and Contemporary Issues. National Art Education Association.

Maihoub, A. (2015). Thinking through the sociality of art objects. Journal of Aesthetics & Culture 7(1).

Paul, E.S. & Stokes, D. Attributing Creativity. In B. Gaut & M. Keiran (Eds.), Creativity and Philosophy (pp. 193-210). Routledge. 

Robertson, J. & McDaniel, C. (2013) Identity. In Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 (3rd Ed.) (pp. 54-97). Oxford Press.

Robertson, J. & McDaniel, C. (2013) The Body. In Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 (3rd Ed.) (pp. 98-139). Oxford Press.

Smith, T. (2011). Currents of world-making in contemporary art. World Art, 1(2), 171-188.

Van Laar, T. & Diepeveen, L. (1997) Art and Belief Systems. In Active Sights: Art as Social Interaction (pp. 23-49). Mayfield Publishing.