Aesthetics
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Political Theory and ArchitectureWhat can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force...
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected WritingsFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: "Quality""The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." --Robert M. Pirsig, 1962More...
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Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt SpacesThere is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot B hme. Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of...
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of ExcessA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on...
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The Politics of AestheticsThe Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and...
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Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the ArtsThis book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William...
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MagazineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves...
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Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday LifeBuilding upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical...
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The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of ThinkingGrootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought. While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual thinking has yet to be...
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The Continental Philosophy of Film ReaderThe first collection of its kind, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema, representing the last century of film-making and thinking about film, as well as all of the major schools of Continental thought:...
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The Beauty of GamesAuthor: Frank LantzPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 10/03/2023Pages: 184Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.11h x 5.20w x 0.87dISBN: 9780262048538About the AuthorFrank Lantz has taught game design for over twenty years at New York University, where he helped create the NYU Game Center and served as the founding...
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Taste: Media and Interior DesignThis book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does. Karin Tehve examines taste primarily through its recursive relationship to media. This ongoing process changes the relationship between designers and the...
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BossesGhislaine Leung articulates an art practice, a life, and the necessity to act within a system of limitations. As an artist how can you get out of the hiding position? Her blocks are taken as raw material. To make art is to understand how...
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The Fragment: An Incomplete HistoryAlmost everything we know about the past comes from physical and narrative fragments. Yet a fragment is not simply the static part of a once-whole thing. It is itself something in motion over time, manifesting successively or variously as object, evidence, concept, and condition....
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Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical FitnessAuthor: Paul UponiPublisher: Upauli EnterprisePublished: 10/21/2023Pages: 220Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50dISBN: 9781739055509
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Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of FormIn Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity's aesthetic regime, but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists...
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CleaningFrom the celebrated MUJI designer and bestselling author of 100 Whites and Designing Japan, a compact and beautifully designed guide to the art of cleaningCleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. With beautiful photography and short, poetical observations, acclaimed author and...
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The Resistant Object of Architecture: A Lacanian PerspectiveArchitecture's role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of Architecture addresses this problem, and does so in a way that represents a marked departure from predominant...
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Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style: 19th-Century French Painting and PhilosophyWhy did subject and style in art change so dramatically over the course of the 19th century - from Madame Recamier, by Jacques-Louis David (1800) to Luxe, Calme et Volupte by Matisse (1904)? We'll look for an explanation through a combination of art analysis...
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EnsoulmentGehrz breathes delicate new life into this ancient text, unfolding the threads of Porphyry's thoughts anew. Fundamental questions for astrology -- When does the soul move into the body? Where does the soul come from? -- are considered methodically from myriad angles and potentials....
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