Philosophy: aesthetics books

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The Eagle's Nest

The Eagle's Nest

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9781847025425
Format: Paperback
$17.85

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman,...  Read More >>

What is Beauty? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience

What is Beauty? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic...

Author: Martino Rossi Monti ,  Davor Pećnjak
ISBN: 9781527560130
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Does art need to be beautiful? Can humour be beautiful? What is the relationship between beauty and mimetic behaviour?...  Read More >>

Philosophy by Women: 22 Philosophers Reflect on Philosophy and Its Value

Philosophy by Women: 22 Philosophers Reflect on Philosophy...

Author: Elly Vintiadis
ISBN: 9780367458416
Format: Hardback
$284.00

What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it? 22 women in philosophy...  Read More >>

Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Philosophy and Popular Culture

Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Philosophy and Popular...

Author: Dr Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350008526
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the...  Read More >>

Henri Bergson and Visual Culture: A Philosophy for a New Aesthetic

Henri Bergson and Visual Culture: A Philosophy for a...

Author: Paul Atkinson
ISBN: 9781350161771
Format: Paperback
$52.99

What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates...  Read More >>

A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China

A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China

Author: Mary Bittner Wiseman
ISBN: 9781498596909
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material....  Read More >>

Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Philosophy and Popular Culture

Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Philosophy and Popular...

Author: Dr Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350008519
Format: Hardback
$160.00

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the...  Read More >>

Scandalous Times: Contemporary Creativity and the Rise of State-Sanctioned Controversy

Scandalous Times: Contemporary Creativity and the Rise...

Author: Alex Ling
ISBN: 9781350068551
Format: Hardback
$200.00

We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and,...  Read More >>

The Logic of Gilles Deleuze: Basic Principles

The Logic of Gilles Deleuze: Basic Principles

Author: Corry Shores (Lecturer, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9781350062269
Format: Hardback
$200.00

French philosopher Gilles Deleuze wrote two 'logic' books: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation and The Logic of...  Read More >>

Practical Aesthetics

Practical Aesthetics

Author: Professor Bernd Herzogenrath
ISBN: 9781350116108
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This collection brings together artists and theoreticians to provide the first anthology of a new field: Practical...  Read More >>

Henri Bergson and Visual Culture: A Philosophy for a New Aesthetic

Henri Bergson and Visual Culture: A Philosophy for a...

Author: Paul Atkinson
ISBN: 9781350161764
Format: Hardback
$170.00

What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates...  Read More >>

The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World

The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work...

Author: Sue Spaid (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350114890
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This book walks us through the process of how artworks eventually get their meaning, showing us how curated exhibitions...  Read More >>

Imagining Dewey: Artful Works and Dialogue about Art as Experience

Imagining Dewey: Artful Works and Dialogue about Art...

Author: Patricia L. Maarhuis ,  A.G. Rud
ISBN: 9789004438057
Format: Paperback
$150.48

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Aesthetics and Politics

Aesthetics and Politics

Author: Fredric Jameson ,  Bertolt Brecht
ISBN: 9781788738583
Format: Paperback
$22.99

An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century...  Read More >>

Imagining Dewey: Artful Works and Dialogue about Art as Experience

Imagining Dewey: Artful Works and Dialogue about Art...

Author: Patricia L. Maarhuis ,  A.G. Rud
ISBN: 9789004392892
Format: Hardback
$393.36

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Expressiveness: Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects

Expressiveness: Perception and Emotions in the Experience...

Author: Marta Benenti
ISBN: 9783110669565
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Jesus: Artisan of Beautiful Possibilities

Jesus: Artisan of Beautiful Possibilities

Author: D Michael O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9781632216786
Format: Paperback
$38.25

"Jesus: Artisan of Beautiful Possibilities showcases the very newest insights in Biblical and language scholarship...  Read More >>

Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures

Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy...

Author: Ben Blumson
ISBN: 9781013288067
Format: Paperback
$67.15

It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they...  Read More >>

Middlebrow Modernism

Middlebrow Modernism

Author: Christopher Chowrimootoo
ISBN: 9781013291760
Format: Paperback
$67.15

"Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this...  Read More >>

Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion': Renaissance Proportion Theory

Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human...

Author: James Hutson
ISBN: 9781013295249
Format: Paperback
$67.15

In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht...  Read More >>

Middlebrow Modernism

Middlebrow Modernism

Author: Christopher Chowrimootoo
ISBN: 9781013291777
Format: Hardback
$77.50

"Situated at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of twentieth-century music, this...  Read More >>

Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human Proportion': Renaissance Proportion Theory

Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer's 'Four Books on Human...

Author: James Hutson
ISBN: 9781013295256
Format: Hardback
$77.50

In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht...  Read More >>

Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures

Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy...

Author: Ben Blumson
ISBN: 9781013288074
Format: Hardback
$77.50

It's a platitude - which only a philosopher would dream of denying - that whereas words are connected to what they...  Read More >>

Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

Literature and Understanding: The Value of a Close Reading...

Author: Jon Phelan
ISBN: 9780367337056
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis...  Read More >>

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