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Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by Leona Koren  Publisher Comments Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional....
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The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched
by Paul Woodruff Publisher Comments What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant andunique book, is as necessary--and as powerful--as language itself...
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Chromophobia (Focus on Contemporary Issues)
by David Batchelor Publisher Comments Chromophobia-a fear of corruption or contamination through color-has been a cultural phenomenon since ancient Greek times; this book is concerned with its modern and contemporary manifestations, as well as with resistance to it in art. The central...
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Handbook of Inaesthetic
by Badiou And Toscano Publisher Comments Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is...
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Theory & History of Literature #88: Aesthetic Theory
by Theodor W Adorno Synopsis Perhaps the most important aesthetics of the twentieth century appears here newly translated, in English that is for the first time faithful to the intricately demanding language of the original German. The culmination of a lifetime of aesthetic...
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Marvelous Images
by Kendall L. Walton Publisher Comments The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial...
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The Ideology of the Aesthetic
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western philosophy, focusing in particular on the complex relations between...
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The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (P.S.)
by Virginia I. Postrel Publisher Comments Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how...
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The Sense of Beauty
by George Santayana Publisher Comments Masterfully written discussion of the nature of beauty, form, expression; art, literature, and social sciences involved. Santayana covers the nature and materials of beauty, form, expression, and much more....
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The Politics of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible
by Jacques Ranciere Publisher Comments Aiming to rethink the relation between art and politics, this title seeks to reclaim "aesthetics" from its contemporary narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. It ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of...
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Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
by John O'donohue Publisher Comments In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Caraand Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty -- the divine beauty that calls theimagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart...
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Five Faces of Modernity
by Matei Calinescu Synopsis The author discusses with remarkable insight and subtlety the complex relationships among concepts which are commonly used but rarely precisely defined...in doing so, he makes a significant contribution to contemporary scholarship and criticism....
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Theatricality As Medium
by Samuel Weber Publisher Comments Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has...
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The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
by Hans-georg Gadamer Publisher Comments 'Presents for the first time in English the most important of Gadamer\'s extensive writings on art and literature.'...
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Monty Python and Philosophy : Nudge Nudge, Think Think! (06 Edition)
by Hardcastle Publisher Comments From the 1970s cult TV show, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, to the current hit musical Spamalot, the Monty Python comedy troupe has been at the center of popular culture and entertainment. The Pythons John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry...
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Exact Imagination, Late Work: On Adorno's Aesthetics
by Shierry W Nicholsen Publisher Comments Most English-language writing on Theodor Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, marks our failure to appropriate Adorno's ideas imaginatively. In Exact Imagination...
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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments This eloquent 1757 treatise examines how interactions with the physical world affect formulation of ideals related to beauty and art. Tremendously influential on the development of aesthetic theory, this formative dissertation was among the...
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Aesthetic Perception; a Thomistic Perspective.
by Kevin E O'reilly Book News Annotation O'Reilly (philosophy, Milltown Institute) looks for the implicit references to pure reason and prejudice in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinus and most certainly finds it, noting that to truly understand, by extension, Thomist aesthetic perception one...
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The Aesthetic as the Science of Expression and of the Linguistic in General, Part 1, Theory (Aesthetic as the Science of Expression & of the Linguistic i)
by Benedetto Croce Publisher Comments The Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) spent most of his life as a private scholar in Naples. His Estetica, which first appeared in 1902, has remained a seminal work not only for aesthetics but also for general linguistics. As the full title...
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Profanations
by Giorgio Agamben Publisher Comments The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanations, Agamben has assembled for the first time some of...
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