Aesthetics category: 1179 books
Curtains
Windows on the Unreality We Live In
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Curtains is a dizzying photographic foray into the hidden realities lurking in the folds of puddled curtains that the photographer, John Briggs, found in windows of a central London office building. The photographer puts the curtain folds though simple transformations that result in strange creatures...
by Lev Manovich
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Software has replaced a diverse array of physical, mechanical, and electronic technologies used before 21st century to create, store, distribute and interact with cultural artifacts. It has become our interface to the world, to others, to our memory and our imagination - a universal language through...
Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism
Continuities, Revisions, Speculations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Charting the period that extends from the 1860s to the 1940s, this volume offers fresh perspectives on Aestheticism and Modernism. By acknowledging that both movements had a passion for the ‘new’, it goes beyond the alleged divide between Modernism and its predecessors. Rather than reading the...
Spoil Island
Reading the Makeshift Archipelago
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Is there an allure of spoiled places? Spoil islands are overlooked places that combine dirt with paradise, waste-land with “brave new world,” and wildness with human intervention. Although they are mundane products of dredging, these islands form an uninvestigated archipelago that demonstrates...
Animality in British Romanticism
The Aesthetics of Species
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of...
Trust in the World
A Philosophy of Film
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book examines the theory, originally raised in Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of film, that cinema has the power to restore our trust in the world. Früchtl demonstrates that cinema does this in three main ways: by restoring our belief in the absurd, in the body and in a sceptical abstention from...
by Joseph Margolis
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Joseph Margolis, known for his considerable contributions to the philosophy of art and aesthetics, pragmatism, and American philosophy, has focused primarily on the troublesome concepts of culture, history, language, agency, art, interpretation, and the human person or self. For Margolis, the signal...
Art as the Absolute
Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem...
by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence...
The Negritude Movement
W.E.B. Du Bois, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and the Evolution of an Insurgent Idea
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
The Negritude Movement provides readers with not only an intellectual history of the Negritude Movement but also its prehistory (W.E.B. Du Bois, the New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance) and its posthistory (Frantz Fanon and the evolution of Fanonism). By viewing Negritude as an “insurgent...
by E.S. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
First published in 1931, this book provides a brief overview of the essentials of philosophy. It aims to combat the notion of the inaccessibility of philosophy by providing an introduction to its history and what the author believes to a ‘minimum dose…of incontrovertible philosophical truth’....
Understanding Music
Philosophy and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Roger Scruton first addressed this topic in his celebrated book The Aesthetics of Music (OUP) and in this new book he applies the theory to the practice and examines a number of composers and musical forms. His continued fascination with Wagner provides much interesting content but he also deals near-death...
Being for Beauty
Aesthetic Agency and Value
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest insights of science and mathematics. For centuries,...
Art, Education, and the Democratic Commitment
A Defense of State Support for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
In reflecting on this book and the process of writing it, the most pervasive theme I find is that of confluence. I drew much of the energy needed to write the book from the energy that resides at the confluence, or nexus, of contrasting ideas. At the most general level, the topic of arts subsidy offered...