Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Mediators
Aesthetics, Politics, and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Reinhold Martin’s Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a range of subjects, including the architecture...
What Art Is
The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
What is art? The arts establishment has a simple answer: anything is art if a reputed artist or expert says it is. Though many people are skeptical about the alleged new art forms that have proliferated since the early twentieth century, today's critics claim that all such work, however incomprehensible,...
Art and Enlightenment
Scottish Aesthetics in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid...
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists
A Critical Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is...
by Tom Rockmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato’s famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato’s challenge was resolved long ago. In Art and Truth after Plato, Tom Rockmore...
The Insistence of Art
Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Updated and revised, the Second Edition of Danto and His Critics presents a series of essays by leading Danto scholars who offer their critical assessment of the influential works and ideas of Arthur C. Danto, the Johnsonian Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University...
Life as Art
Aesthetics and the Creation of Self
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Life as Art brings the resources of contemporary aesthetics since Nietzsche to bear on the problems of how one integrates the aesthetic emphases of meaning, liberation, and creativity into one’s daily life. By linking together the aesthetic and ethical accounts of critical theorists, phenomenologists,...
by Oliver Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible presentation and searching evaluation of his significant contributions to the fields of politics, pedagogy,...
Wittgenstein at the Movies
Cinematic Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on...
Sprezzatura
Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with...
by Roni Grén
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth and twentieth century artists and art theorists. The book is unique due to its...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke argued that our aesthetic responses are experienced as pure emotional arousal, unencumbered by intellectual considerations. In so doing he overturned the Platonic tradition in aesthetics that had prevailed...
The Value of Popular Music
An Approach from Post-Kantian Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016
In this book, Alison Stone argues that popular music since rock-‘n’-roll is a unified form of music which has positive value. That value is that popular music affirms the importance of materiality and the body, challenging the long-standing Western elevation of the intellect above all things corporeal....