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  • Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic (1968 - 2018)
    Lisa FitzGerald
    Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments. Exploring contemporary digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens, Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic(1968 - 2018)demonstrates the many ways in which critical ideas of the sublime, the pastoral and the picturesque...
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    154,64 €

  • Belcaro - Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions
    Vernon Lee
    'Belcaro - Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions' is an 1881 collection of essays on the subject of aestheticism written by Vernon Lee. Contents include: 'The Book and its Title', 'The Child in the Vatican', 'Orpheus and Eurydice - The Lesson of a Bas-Relief', 'Faustus and Helena - Notes on the Supernatural in Art', 'Chapelmaster Kreisler - A Study of Musical Romanticist...
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    25,55 €

  • Aristotle On The Art Of Poetry
    Aristotle / Ingram Bywater
    Aristotle On The Art Of Poetry: Translated By Ingram Bywater With A Preface By Gilbert MurrayThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has be...
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    8,83 €

  • Poetics
    Aristotle
    Poetics is one of Aristotle’s greatest works; the philosopher’s grand and insightful essay on art and its purposes. Why must a story have a beginning, a middle, and an end? How can we define tragedy, and what is the artistic purpose of it? Is there one 'ideal' kind of drama? What is the nature of poetry? How consciously should poets and playwrights construct their work? All the...
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    30,85 €

  • Therapeutic Aesthetics
    Maria Walsh
    Over the last century, society has witnessed a dramatic shift away from industrial employment, where profit was largely achieved via physical labour to that in which money is made from mental exertion. In this original and provocative book, Maria Walsh contends that modern neo-liberal conditions have created a world of precarity, in which labour is expendable, material suc...
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    160,87 €

  • Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics
    Ian Andrews
    In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. His account of how the composer John Cage and other avant-garde creatives such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sol LeWitt and Ed...
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    160,89 €

  • Critique in German Philosophy
    Traces a conceptual history of critique in German philosophy from the eighteenth century to the present. ...
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    126,21 €

  • to play, perchance to...
    Jeremy Fernando
    to drift —perchance to dream. In which one can never quite tell if a thought that comes to one came from one, had arrived onto one, or if one might have merely slid to it, drifted into it. Where, one can never quite know if one is responding to works — to the beautiful pieces brought forth by Priyageetha Dia, Anne Dufourmantelle, Gabriela Golder, Mariela Yeregui, Jacques Tati —...
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    26,63 €

  • The Logic of Gilles Deleuze
    Corry Shores
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote two ’logic’ books: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and The Logic of Sense. However, in neither of these books nor in any other works does Deleuze articulate in a formal way the features of the logic he employs. He certainly does not use classical logic. And the best options for the non-classical logic that he may be implementing are...
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    160,53 €

  • Scandalous Times
    Alex Ling
    We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routine transgressions will be understood in ’revelatory’ terms, as peeling back the multiple layers of artifice and spin to reveal an underlying, and oftentimes disturbing, ’truth’. Otherswill be recognized as calculated mark...
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    161,03 €

  • Practical Aesthetics
    Bernd Herzogenrath
    This collection brings together artists and theoreticians to provide the first anthology of a new field: Practical Aesthetics.A work of art already contains its own criticism, a knowledge of its own which need not be conceptual or propositional. Yet today, there are many approaches to different forms of art that work on the brink between science and art, ’sensible cognitio...
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    160,68 €

  • Art, Love and Truth
    Christopher Greaves
    At a time when every cultural value has been questioned, when there seem to be no limits to what can be described as ’art’, and when doubt has been cast upon truth itself, this book argues for the fact of certain fundamental principles within the field of Art and seeks to establish their nature.Referring to many examples, ’Art, Love and Truth’ is both a study in discrimination,...
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    22,87 €

  • Middlebrow Modernism
    Christopher Chowrimootoo
    Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allow...
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    48,92 €

  • Middlebrow Modernism
    Christopher Chowrimootoo
    Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this study uses Benjamin Britten’s operas to illustrate the ways in which composers, critics and audiences mediated the 'great divide' between modernism and mass culture. Reviving mid-century discussions of the 'middlebrow,' Chowrimootoo demonstrates how these works allow...
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    64,44 €

  • Gallucci’s Commentary on Dürer’s ’Four Books on Human Proportion’
    James Hutson
    In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treat...
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    48,32 €

  • Gallucci’s Commentary on Dürer’s ’Four Books on Human Proportion’
    James Hutson
    In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been translated earlier in the sixteenth-century into French and Latin, it was Gallucci’s Italian translation that endured in popularity as the most cited version of the text in later Baroque treat...
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    63,82 €

  • Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power
    Individuals seek ways to repress the sense of violence within themselves and often resort to medial channels. The hunger of the individual for violence is a trigger for the generation of violent content by media, owners of political power, owners of religious power, etc. However, this content is produced considering the individual’s sensitivities. Thus, violence is aestheticize...
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    355,20 €

  • Ancient Art And Ritual
    Jane Ellen Harrison
    Ancient Art And RitualThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting too...
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    9,53 €

  • A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China
    Mary Bittner Wiseman
    Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material. This book applies theories by Osborne and Danto to new Chinese art to show how artists are working below the level of language to make each work of art prove that it is art. ...
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    129,30 €

  • The Ethical Detective
    Rachel Haliburton
    This book works within the neo-Aristotelian ethical framework to make the case that moral philosophers ought to see detective fiction as a source of ethical insight and as a tool to spark the moral imagination. It also critiques contemporary moral philosophy and proposes what autonomy might look like if understood in neo-Aristotelian terms. ...
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    54,28 €

  • Didi-Huberman and the image
    Chari Larsson
    This is the first English-language study of the legendary French art historian Georges Didi-Huberman. With clear discussions of Didi-Huberman’s ideas and arguments, this book offers an excellent introduction to one of the most influential critical thinkers writing today. ...
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    157,58 €

  • UNBUILT INTENTIONS
    Jaime Correa
    In the same philosophical tradition of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, this provocative design manifesto confronts a neglected dimension of our experience of cities and architecture. It proposes a new professional 'Paper Practice' of unbuilt projects where the moral and ethical transcendence of distinct anticipated futures, poetry, eidetic universals, and multipl...
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    77,08 €

  • Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
    James S. Williams
    Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and ...
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    54,38 €

  • The Meaning of Idealism
    Pavel Florensky / Boris Jakim
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    21,78 €

  • The Meaning of Idealism
    Pavel Florensky / Boris Jakim
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    28,55 €

  • The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
    Vernon Lee
    Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1...
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    20,32 €

  • A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing - Essays and Excerpts on The Arts
    Oscar Wilde
    “A Picture is a Purely Decorative Thing” is a brand new collection of essays and excerpts on the subject of The Arts written by Oscar Wilde. Contents include: “The Artist”, “The English Renaissance of Art”, “An Exposure of Naturalism”, “Sculpture at The Arts and Crafts”, “House Decoration”, “The Poetry of Archæology”, “The Art of Archæology”, “Art and the Handicraftsman”, “Mr. ...
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    22,53 €

  • Beauty & Art - A Collection of Essays
    Vernon Lee
    Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. This volume contains...
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    25,47 €

  • The Aesthetic Clinic
    Fernanda Negrete
    Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience. ...
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    126,62 €

  • Gaming and the Virtual Sublime
    Matthew Spokes
    Gaming and the Virtual Sublime considers the ’virtual sublime’ as a conceptual toolbox for understanding our affective engagement with contemporary interactive entertainment. ...
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    143,05 €


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