Aesthetics
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Art History After Deleuze and GuattariThough Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari were not strictly art historians, they reinvigorated ontological and formal approaches to art, and simultaneously borrowed art historical concepts for their own philosophical work. They were dedicated modernists, inspired by the German school of expressionist art historians such...
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Miscellaneous Texts, Volume I: Aesthetics and Theory of ArtThe first volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's Miscellaneous Texts on contemporary art and artists, Aesthetics and Theory of Art, contains nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art. They are published in the original French along with the translations in English. Most of...
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The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable FacsimilesThe Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented attempt to make sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. In a work that is breathtaking in its synthetic and critical achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our entanglement with copies of...
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Void - In ArtVoid In Art brings together the author's many years of meditation practice with his knowledge of art history and the sacred wisdom texts of Eastern philosophy to show how the experience of the Great Void of ultimate reality, a central aspect of the meditation...
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The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and BeyondFrom the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists'...
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Golf BallObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand...
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Selections from Cultural WritingsOne of the world's most influential cultural critics, Antonio Gramsci's writings on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally changed the way that scholars view both. Among the first to argue that art is not the product of men of genius but rather particular...
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Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential QualityThe introduction of this book reads, "Beauty, like every other quality -- courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom -- is a part of us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal and impersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make...
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete...
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The Arts of the BeautifulAuthor: Etienne GilsonPublisher: Dalkey Archive PressPublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 189Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.49w x 0.57dISBN: 9781564782502About the AuthorA world-renowned philosopher and historian, Etienne Gilson held the position of Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Sorbonne and subsequently at the College de France. He...
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The Art of Controversy"The Art of Controversy" from Arthur Schopenhauer. German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation (1788-1860).Author: T. Bailey Saunders, Arthur SchopenhauerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/11/2016Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12dISBN: 9781533215789This title is not...
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Aesthetic Sexuality: A Literary History of SadomasochismTo understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault's assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs...
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Art After MetaphysicsContemporary art is a very different kind of art from anything that has ever been practiced in the past. It is an art that takes place after the age of metaphysics, when all the imaginary significations that once used to anchor art in traditional...
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Philosophising by Accident: Interviews with Elie DuringThis new translation of four revised radio interviews, conducted in December 2002 at France Culture with Élie During, is the best introduction to Stiegler's Time and Technics series. This collection includes a new interview conducted specially for this volume and an interview with Artpress...
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The Question of Painting: Rethinking Thought with Merleau-PontySince the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement....
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American GraphicWhat do we really mean when we call something "graphic"? In American Graphic, Rebecca Clark examines the "graphic" as a term tellingly at odds with itself. On the one hand, it seems to evoke the grotesque; on the other hand, it promises the geometrically...
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The Iconic ImaginationIs it merely an accident of English etymology that 'imagination' is cognate with 'image'? Despite the iconoclasm shared to a greater or lesser extent by all Abrahamic faiths, theism tends to assert a link between beauty, goodness and truth, all of which are viewed...
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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 Didi-Huberman DictionaryThe Didi-Huberman Dictionary is a specialized introduction to the thought of contemporary French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, best known for his path-breaking philosophy of image and for his impact on the 'visual turn' in theoretical humanities. With over 150 entries, including 125 main entries, the...
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L'Infini Culturel: Théorie Littéraire Et Fragilité Du DiversL'infini culturel est autour de nous, mais, comme l'horizon, il tend à fuir sous nos yeux. Il est sur les murs investis par le street art; ou dans les toiles d'araignée auxquelles Tomás Saraceno a rendu hommage; ou dans les timbres-poste qui, comme savaient...
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