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Reducere. A gothic mystery novel and story of passion and romance set against the backdrop of a timeless Mediterranean landscape, The Wanderess tells of the ...

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In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who...

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game ...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to...

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for ...

An introduction to philosophy of Li Zezhou, one of the contemporary China's foremost intellectuals. It presents Li's synthesis of Chinese aesthetic...

DescriptionIn Unruly Visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation o...

DescriptionIt passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In ...

Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the q...

This book describes the relationship between science and poetry in the Hellenistic period by analysing the stylistic features of Hellenistic mathem...

Reducere. In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation-Louise...

Reducere. In Walkscapes Francesco Careri explores the act of walking, taking a deeper look at three important moments of passage in art history-all absolutel...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Herbert MarcuseNumber of pages: 108Publication date: 1979Dimensions: 221 x 140 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

The "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretch...

This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the aut...

A stunning look at the profound impact of the jet plane on the mid-century aesthetic, from Disneyland to Life magazine Vanessa R. Schwartz engaging...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 234 x 22Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Sarah GambleRede...

Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make promises o...

Seamus Heaney's death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and impo...

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist--the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies--has experienc...

Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of...

Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work o...

Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional ...

As undergraduate and graduate courses in children's literature become more established and numerous, there is an intense need for a textbook that o...

Reducere. DescriptionThe melodious recitation of the Quran is a fundamental aesthetic experience for Muslims, and the start of a compelling journey of ideas....

Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound,...

Argues against the repeated emphasis on literary form and for the artistic importance of literary content

Unorthodox Beauty shows how Russian poets of the early twentieth century consciously adapted Russian Orthodox culture in order to create a distinct...

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Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. This book addresses how music, the phonograph, and film served...

Reducere. This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine richly illustrated chapters Chiang Yee explores the aesthetics and the technique o...

This book constitutes one of the most important contributions to recent Kant scholarship. In it, one of the preeminent interpreters of Kant, Henry ...

DescriptionThe scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting ...

Reducere. 2007 Arts Club of Washington's National Award for Arts Writing - FinalistWith roots that stretch from West Africa through the black pulpit, hip-hop...

Reducere. In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolin...

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissents are influential because of their literary qualities of superfluity and energy he inherited from Emerson. The a...

Provides a prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anjan ChatterjeeThe Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Us...

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visi...

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.Publi...

Reducere. In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Stephen David RossThis anthology has been significantly expanded for this edition to include a wider range of contemporary ...

Reducere. Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada's Truth and Reconc...