What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand

by Louis Torres & Michelle Marder Kamhi

Open Court, 2000 (539 pages, incl. appendixes, notes, bibliography, index); Paperback, $21.95; Hardcover, $44.95 (list prices)

The Book

• Abstract
  

• Table of Contents
  
• Chapter Summaries
  
• Introduction (excerpts)
  
• Endorsements
  (Jacques Barzun and others)
  
• Reviews / Responses
  
• Ordering Information
  
• Review Copies
  
• Examination Copies
  
• Library Purchase Recommendation Form

What Art Is Online

• Articles, reviews, and commentary on topics discussed in What Art Is

Also of Interest

• What Art Is BookNews (a one-page overview)

• "Critical Neglect of Ayn Rand's Theory of Art"
  --from the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Fall 2000)
• "What 'Rand's Aesthetics' Is, and Why It Matters"
  --from the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Spring 2003)
• "Scholarly Engagement: When It Is Pleasurable and When It Is Not"
  --from the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Fall 2003)
  
• Authors' Public Speaking and Teaching
  
• Recommended Links

Individuals of Note

• Ayn Rand (philosopher-novelist)
  

• José Manuel Capuletti (Spanish painter)
  
• William Carter (dancer-choreographer) -- forthcoming
  
• Beatrice Gilman Proske (sculpture historian)
  
• Jack Schaefer (novelist/short-story writer)

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