Aesthetics
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FilmosophyFilmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. It coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo M nsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of "film-thinking," arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a...
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In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and AestheticsThe quality of blandness: no sooner do you identify it then it begins to appear at every turn. Blandness, by definition, pays little heed to the borders our various disciplines like to draw. As the embodiment of neutrality, the bland lies at the point...
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Nietzsche's 'The Birth of Tragedy': A Reader's GuideThis is an introduction to one of Nietzsche's most important works - a key text in nineteenth-century philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was arguably the most important and influential thinker of the nineteenth century. The Birth of Tragedy, his first published work, is a classic text...
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Seeing the Invisible: On KandinskyMichel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy develops a conception of...
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Sensibility and Sense: The Aesthetic Transformation of the Human WorldAesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibility and Sense offers a philosophically comprehensive account of humans' social and cultural embeddedness encountered, recognized, and fulfilled as an aesthetic mode of...
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Quasi Una Fantasia: Essays on Modern MusicThis collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of the auditorium. Especially significant is Adorno's "dialectical portrait" of Stravinsky, in which Adorno both reconsiders and refines his damning indictment...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan But Were Afraid to Ask HitchcockThe contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that 'everything has meaning, ' the authors examine the films' ostensible narrative content and formal procedures...
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On the NewOn the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable...
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free SpiritsHuman, All Too Human - A Book For Free Spirits is a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche published in 1878. It is one of Nietzsche's first works. Translated by Alexander Harvey.Author: Alexander Harvey, Friedrich Wilhelm NietzschePublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 08/12/2018Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h...
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HairObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among...
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Who's Afraid of Modern Art?Modern art can be confusing and intimidating--even ugly and blasphemous. And yet curator and art critic Daniel A. Siedell finds something else, something much deeper that resonates with the human experience. With over thirty essays on such diverse artists as Andy Warhol, Thomas Kinkade,...
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When the Machine Made Art: The Troubled History of Computer ArtConsidering how culturally indispensable digital technology is today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile response. When the Machine...
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Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style2014 Reprint of 1953 New York Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this text, Worringer identifies two opposing tendencies pervading the history of art from ancient times through the Enlightenment. He claims that in societies experiencing...
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Ion: O Sobre la PoesíaIon o Sobre la Il ada, llamado tambi n De la poes a, es un di logo de Plat n, perteneciente a la serie llamada Primeros di logos, escritos en la poca en que el autor era a n joven. La fecha exacta permanece,...
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of TasteAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste is a classic aesthetics essay by Frances Reynolds. Since the early nineteenth century it has been known that Frances Reynolds, the sister of Sir Joshua, was the author of an essay on taste, which she had printed...
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Compact DiscObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The story of the compact disc is also the story of the end of physical media. It is the story of how the quest for perfection laid...
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SockObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Who ponders the sock? This common object is something people tug on and take off daily with hardly a thought. Unraveling the garment's history, construction, and use,...
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What is Art?2014 paperback edition of Leo Tolstoy's controversial indictment of sthetic theory. Tolstoy contends that much of European art since the Renaissance is not "true" art but "counterfeit" art, marked by being mannered, imitative, sensationalist, and overly intellectual. Few of the most highly regarded masters...
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The Sense of BeautyThis little work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality I can claim is that which may result from the attempt to...
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The Gift of Beauty and the Passion of BeingThis book gathers a set of reflections on the gift of beauty and the passion of being. There is something surprising about beauty that we receive and that moves the passion of being in us. The book takes issue with an ambiguous attitude to...
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