Aesthetics category: 1179 books
The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism
The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828)
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
This is a comprehensive, integrated account of eighteenth and early nineteenth century German figurative aesthetics. The author focuses on the theologically-minded discourse on the visual arts that unfolded in Germany, circa 1754-1828, to critique the assumption that German romanticism and idealism...
Aesthetics and Marxism
Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2000
Although Chinese Marxism—primarily represented by Maoism—is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese...
by Dabney Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
Aesthetics is not a 'factual' discipline; there are no aesthetic facts. The word itself is derived from the Greek word for 'feeling' and the discipline arises because of the need to find a place for the passions within epistemology_the branch of philosophy that investigates our beliefs. Aesthetics...
The Visibility of the Image
History and Perspectives of Formal Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Now available in English for the first time, The Visibility of the Image explores the development of an influential aesthetic tradition through the work of six figures. Analysing their contribution to the progress of formal aesthetics, from its origins in Germany in the 1880s to semiotic interpretations...
by Mads Nygaard Folkmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
A theoretically informed investigation that relates the philosophies of aesthetics and imagination to understanding design practice.
In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design objects, Folkmann argues, will always...
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Praised in its original edition for its up-to-date, rigorous presentation of current debates and for the clarity of its presentation, Robert Stecker's new edition of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art preserves the major themes and conclusions of the original, while expanding its content, providing...
Aesthetics of Ugliness
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
The aesthetics of everyday life, originally developed by Henri Lefebvre and other modernist theorists, is an extension of traditional aesthetics, usually confined to works of art. It is not limited to the study of humble objects but is rather concerned with all of the undeniably aesthetic experiences...
by Ekbert Faas
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
The Survival of Beauty and Art is a direct followup to Faas’ The Genealogy of Aesthetics (Cambridge, 2002), his Nietzschean critique of the Idealist western tradition. Genealogy met with both lavish praise and fierce rebuttal. Professor D. Townsend, head of the American Society of Aesthetics, conceded...
Aesthetics of the Familiar
Everyday Life and World-Making
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Yuriko Saito explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people's everyday life. Everyday aesthetics has the recognized value of enriching one's life experiences and sharpening one's attentiveness and sensibility. Saito draws out its broader importance for how we make our worlds,...
by Emmanouil Aretoulakis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture explores the subjective experience of the beautiful in the face of terror and human tragedy. Emmanouil Aretoulakis proposes that behind the horror, repulsion, and outrage felt by humanity before images of natural or man-made...
The Aesthetics of Education
Theatre, Curiosity, and Politics in the Work of Jacques Ranciere and Paulo Freire
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education.  Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E. Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances. As Jacques Ranciere has recently...
Aesthetics and Art
Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of aesthetics throughout history,...
Queer Beauty
Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several...