Aesthetics
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Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of PossibilityWINNER OF THE JUDY TSOU CRITICAL RACE STUDIES AWARD! In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in...
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The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western TraditionOurs is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James...
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How to Read LiteratureA literary master's entertaining guide to reading with deeper insight, better understanding, and greater pleasure--"English 101 in a book." (Michael Lindgren, Washington Post) What makes a work of literature good or bad? How freely can the reader interpret it? Could a nursery rhyme like...
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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms"We have in this book a Rosetta stone for mediating, or translating, African musical behavior and aesthetics."--Andrew Tracey, African Music "John Miller Chernoff, who spent 10 years studying African drumming, has a flair for descriptive writing, and his first-person narratives should be easily understood...
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Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film ImaginationThis eloquent book draws on the author's responses to a wide range of extraordinary films--"long takes" on Altman's Nashville, Godard's Hail Mary, Makavejev's WR: Mysteries of the Organism, and von Sternberg's Blonde Venus, as well as "short takes" on films by Jean Rouch, Chris...
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Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the Senufo-Mande Cultural FrontierHow do arts convey the existence of potent knowledge without revealing details of that knowledge? In Seeing the Unseen, art historian Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi examines tensions between the seen and unseen that makers, patrons, and audiences of arts in western West Africa negotiate through...
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The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the UnfinishedThe aesthetics of imperfection emphasises spontaneity, disruption, process and energy over formal perfection and is often ignored by many commentators or seen only in improvisation. This comprehensive collection is the first time imperfection has been explored across all kinds of musical performance, whether improvisation...
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Sad Boy AestheticsThrough the precession of simulacra, we have arrived at a landscape of e-girls and sad boys, the aesthetic values of our time transposed onto the ecstatic communications of the hyperreal. Through Baudrillardian analysis, Alex Mazey attempts to trace a genealogy of Sad Boy Aesthetics,...
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Untimely Passages: Dossiers from the Other ShoreThese essays emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and atmosphere of the crises of modernism that accompany the author's reading of European literature as a world literature. The author imagines the collection through the image of the...
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Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, OldenburgHow artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after...
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Aesthetics Volume IIWith the release of Aesthetics Volume II, the Hildebrand Press introduces English readers to a major new work of philosophical aesthetics.Written in the early 1970s during the last years of his life, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection, Dietrich von Hildebrand's Aesthetics is...
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Social PracticesEssays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and...
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After Work: Céline CondorelliAn exhibition catalogue of the first survey exhibition of pre-eminent artist, educator and publisher Céline Condorelli Céline Condorelli has been the driving creative force behind two decades of artwork, exhibitions, workshops, public spaces, books and institutions, and throughout it all has shown us that...
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Art and Pornography: Philosophical EssaysArt and Pornography presents a series of essays which investigate the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature, and explores the distinction, if there is any, between pornography and erotic art. Is there any overlap between art and pornography, or...
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Portraits and PhilosophyPortraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity,...
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This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of ArtAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created--a world that perishes or decays over time--and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is...
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Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an IdeaA spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's life that shaped her as an artist...
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We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward InfinityWhat is music?Modern society has come to view music largely as entertainment and commodity. In response, We Are Music: An Existential Journey Toward Infinity provides the reader with a holistic starting point. Music has unlimited potential to transform and enlighten, and is only impeded...
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How to Be StraightMilo Yiannopoulos is not straight, but that's never stopped him from handing out excellent advice. And let's face it, heterosexuals need it. Milo has spent his entire life advocating for the most brutally repressed minority on the planet--straight people. In this book, the Grand...
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The Usefulness of the Useless"A little masterpiece of originality and clarity."--George Steiner "A necessary book."--Roberto Saviano "A wonderful little book that will delight you."--Fran ois Busnel International Best Seller / Now in English for the First Time In this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues...
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