Aesthetics
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Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the WorldHow to Design the World: Working Without Solutions In Medium Design everyone is a designer. But design, in this case, inverts the typical focus on object over its settings to concentrate on the medium--the matrix space between objects, events, and ideological declarations. It disrupts...
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Beauty in the Light of the Redemption"What importance is to be attributed to beauty in the life of a Christian? What role should it play in the life of those who have been redeemed? What is the relationship between redemption and beauty? Did beauty lose its significance after the redemption?"These...
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Aesthetics: A Comprehensive AnthologyA revised second edition of the bestselling anthology on the major figures and themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the ideal resource for a comprehensive introduction to the study of aesthetics Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology offers a well-rounded and thorough introduction to the...
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MushroomObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating misery. They are grouped...
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Transforming Christian Thought in the Visual Arts: Theology, Aesthetics, and PracticeThis volume explores how the visual arts are presenting and responding to Christian theology and demonstrates how modern and contemporary artists and artworks have actively engaged in conversation with Christianity. Modern intellectual enquiry has often been reluctant to engage theology as an enriching or...
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Francis Bacon: The Logic of SensationTranslated and with an Introduction by Daniel W. Smith Afterword by Tom Conley Gilles Deleuze had several paintings by Francis Bacon hanging in his Paris apartment, and the painter's method and style as well as his motifs of seriality, difference, and repetition influenced Deleuze's...
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How Art Works: A Psychological ExplorationThere is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions come from philosophy. Examples include: - What makes...
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The Holiday in His Eye: Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and PhilosophyFrom The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell's philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to make film a significant focus of his thought, and William Rothman has...
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Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-VisibleGrammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of...
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Animating the Antique: Sculptural Encounter in the Age of Aesthetic TheoryFramed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations--among them Rome, Florence, Naples, London, Dresden, and Paris--Sarah Betzer explores...
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Artful Truths: The Philosophy of MemoirOffers a philosophical perspective on the nature and value of writing a memoir. Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher's perspective to a general audience, Helena...
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BlackfaceA New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren't there as many examples of...
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The Wabi-Sabi Way: Simple Principles to Bring Calm, Meaning & Authenticity to Your Daily LifeEmbrace a perfectly imperfect life--the practical guide to wabi sabi With deep roots in Taoism, Shinto, and Buddhism, wabi sabi is a philosophical and spiritual stance that celebrates imperfection, impermanence, contentment, detachment, and natural beauty. The Wabi-Sabi Way can show you how to harness...
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The Wisdom of LifeIn these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which...
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Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art Under CapitalismIn Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend...
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The Politics of Beauty: A Study of Kant's Critique of TasteAuthor: Susan Meld ShellPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 09/15/2022Pages: 84Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781009011808This title is not returnable
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Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of LifeAuthor: Katalin MakkaiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 218Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46dISBN: 9781108708777This title is not returnable
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Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic CartographyMapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the...
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The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous ArchipelagoThis study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a "sonorous archipelago"--a heterogeneous set of shifting sonic territories shaped by the vicissitudes of desire and discourse.Profoundly intimate yet immediately giving onto distant spaces, both an "organ of fear" and...
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Under Representation: The Racial Regime of AestheticsUnder Representation argues that the relation between the concepts of freedom and universality and modernity's racial order is grounded in aesthetic philosophy. Late Enlightenment aesthetics provide the conditions of possibility for universal human subjecthood by forging a "racial regime of representation" whose genealogy runs...
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