Philosophy: aesthetics books

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject?...  Read More >>

This text presents an exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The work of contemporary artist Mary Kelly...  Read More >>

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What is it that an artist paints in a painting? This book shows how, through shades and limits, the painter renders...  Read More >>

Hegel's ""Aesthetics"" gives full expression to his theory of art. He considers the nature of art, surveys the history...  Read More >>

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This book explores the symbolism of the senses which animated the cosmos before the modern scientific view of the...  Read More >>

Explores the symbolism of the senses before the modern scientific view of the world came to dominate, revealing...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays assembles classic and contemporary texts to present both the tradition of aesthetic theory...  Read More >>

This book debates questions of place and praxis. How are geographical, cultural and artistic identities created...  Read More >>

This title considers playing traditions which have developed physical mastery to serve expressive ends. After developing...  Read More >>

This collection of essays assembles classic and contemporary texts to present both the tradition of aesthetic theory...  Read More >>

An evaluation of music making in the past and future aimed at students of aesthetics, the philosophy of music, as...  Read More >>

"In 1882 Oscar Wilde toured America as the ""Apostle of Aestheticism"", spreading a message of regeneration through...  Read More >>

Writings about art and creativity can be traced to the texts of classical antiquity, but aesthetics as a separate...  Read More >>

A response to the powerful presence in contemporary culture of aesthetic forms and political strategies derived...  Read More >>

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What is musical meaning? Where does it reside and how can it be known? Does it make a difference to its meaning...  Read More >>

A four-volume reference work that surveys how philosophers, art historians, and others reflect critically on art...  Read More >>

Bringing philosophical aesthetics into a broader cultural interest in the fine arts, this text draws together the...  Read More >>

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Ästhetik"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

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Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the...  Read More >>