Aesthetics
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RecodingsFor the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have...
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The Philosophy of ArtThe translation herewith presented to the reader consists of a course of Lectures delivered during the winter of 1864, before the Students of Art of the Ecole des Beaux Arts at Paris, by H. Taine, Professeur d'Esthetique et d' Histoire de l'Art in that...
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L'arte come Via Iniziatica: Battiato attraverso Gurdjieff.Questo saggio intende proporre una riflessione sull'indissolubile connubio tra cammino artistico e cammino iniziatico, tra creazione artistica e creazione di s , evidenziando come i due percorsi, arricchendosi a vicenda, si potenziano proprio in virt della loro alchimia.Author: Lucio GiuliodoriPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished:...
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The Arts of CinemaIn The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range...
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Immanence and Immersion: On the Acoustic Condition in Contemporary ArtImmersion is the new orthodoxy. Within the production, curation and critique of sound art, as well as within the broader fields of sound studies and auditory culture, the immersive is routinely celebrated as an experiential quality of sound, the value of which is inherent...
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HoodObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed...
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Abbas Kiarostami and Film-PhilosophyMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Crossing the divide between analytic and...
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Cultural Appropriation and the ArtsNow, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation gives rise. Cultural appropriation is a pervasive feature of the contemporary world (the Parthenon Marbles remain in London; white musicians from Bix Beiderbeck...
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The Bloomsbury Anthology of AestheticsThe Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics provides teachers and students with a new perspective on the history and present of aesthetic theory. It contains a comprehensive survey of the field of aesthetics, with selections drawn from ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary sources. It provides...
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Paul Ricoeur's Philosophical Anthropology as Hermeneutics of Liberation: Freedom, Justice, and the Power of ImaginationThis book offers a unique account of the role imagination plays in advancing the course of freedom's actualization. It draws on Paul Ricoeur's philosophical anthropology of the capable human being as the staging ground for an extended inquiry into the challenges of making freedom...
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Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds, and SilencesWhen we think of Iris Murdoch's relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes - music and other types of sound - contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor...
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The Origins of Kant's AestheticsAuthor: Robert R. ClewisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/26/2023Pages: 280Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781009209427
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Mahler's Nietzsche: Politics and Philosophy in the Wunderhorn SymphoniesExamines how Nietzschean ideas influenced the composition of Mahler's first four, so-called Wunderhorn, symphonies. Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Nietzsche both exercised a tremendous influence over the twentieth century. All the more fascinating, then, is Mahler's intellectual engagement with the writings of Nietzsche. Given the...
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The Legitimacy of Poetic ReasonMany philosophical accounts of reason are geared toward providing rational justifications ex post facto rather than accounting for the role reason plays in actu in the process of creative work. Moreover, when in actu accounts of reason are given, they are usually too narrow...
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A Theory of MinimalismThe explosion of minimalism into the worlds of visual arts, music and literature in the mid-to-late twentieth century presents one of the most radical and decisive revolutions in aesthetic history. Detested by some, embraced by others, minimalism's influence was immediate, pervasive and lasting, significantly...
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Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and PhilosopherWerner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best...
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The Little Book of Daesthetics: A Fragmented DictionaryThe Little Book goes into philosophy and the lacunae in archives, fragments of poetry, and other arts, such as painting and music. Daesthetics: a haunted house of language, is in remembrance of the liminal, archival gaps. Daesthetics, a thinking in the open, with the...
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Rancière and PerformanceJacques Rancière has been hugely influential in the field of political philosophy and aesthetics. This edited collection is the first to investigate the points of contact between the work of Rancière and the field of theatre and performance studies. Recent scholarly works in this...
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Nietzsche on TragedyThe first comprehensive study of Nietzsche's earliest book, The Birth of Tragedy (1872), this important volume by M. S. Silk and J. P. Stern examines the work in detail: its place in Nietzsche's philosophical career; its value as an account of ancient Greek culture;...
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Laokoon oder über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie. Mit beiläufigen Erläuterungen verschiedener Puncte der alten KunstgeschichteThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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