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Philosophy: aesthetics
Hardcover. In premodern China, elite painters used imagery not to mirror the world around them, but to evoke unfathomable experience. Considering their art alongside the philosophical traditions that inform it, this title explores the 'nonobject' - a notion exemplified by paintings that do not seek to represent observable surroundings. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 colour plates. BIC Classification: ABA; AFC; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226415307
- ISBN
- 9780226415307
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Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 79.17
€ 94.64
€ 79.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Hosle, Paul Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters Vittorio (University of Notre Dame, USA). Num Pages: 507 pages, Illustrations (some color). BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 816.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268011192
- ISBN
- 9780268011192
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€ 63.88€ 62.96
€ 63.88
€ 62.96
Hardback. A Return to Aesthetics confronts postmodernism's rejection of aesthetics by showing that this critique rests on central concepts of classical aesthetic theory, namely autonomous form, disinterest, and symbolic discourse. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751155
- ISBN
- 9780804751155
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€ 139.97
€ 139.97
Paperback. The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Translator(s): Bredin, Hugh. Num Pages: 302 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674006768
- ISBN
- 9780674006768
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€ 43.99€ 36.90
€ 43.99
€ 36.90
Hardback. From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is to borrow a phrase from Slavoj i ek the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream analysis. Series: Theory Redux. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; HPN; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509518029
- ISBN
- 9781509518029
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Condition: New
€ 53.96
€ 53.96
hardcover. The Theater of Truth is a book for those interested and engaged in the debates around baroque and neobaroque aesthetics, and offers a unified theory for the relation between these terms and a new vocabulary for distinguishing between their ideological values. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804769549
- ISBN
- 9780804769549
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Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
hardcover. If art and science have one thing in common, it's a hunger for the new - new ideas and innovations, new ways of seeing and depicting the world. The author takes us on a tour of more than two millennia of thinking about the problem of the new, from the puzzles of the pre-Socratics all the way up to the art world of the 1960s and '70s. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPN; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226077871
- ISBN
- 9780226077871
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
paperback. This text contains essays by Richard Wollheim, illuminating thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, these essays reveal the critical connections between ideas and disciplines often regarded as separate and distinct. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; HPN; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674576124
- ISBN
- 9780674576124
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.02
€ 41.99
€ 35.02
hardcover. The predicate "beautiful" indicates that something has minimal form and is cognizable. This book explores this concept of form, in particular the role of presentation in what Kant refers to as mere form, which involves not only the understanding, but also reason as the faculty of ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HPK; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804746137
- ISBN
- 9780804746137
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Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
hardcover. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748940
- ISBN
- 9780804748940
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Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
hardcover. Rediscovering Aesthetics brings together prominent international voices from art history, philosophy and artistic practice who reflect on current notions, functions, and applications of aesthetics in their distinctive fields. Editor(s): Halsall, Francis; Jansen, Julia; O'Connor, Tony. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 figures. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804759908
- ISBN
- 9780804759908
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Condition: New
€ 128.57
€ 128.57
paperback. Editor(s): Matthews, Pamela R.; McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 177 x 28. Weight in Grams: 920.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816639939
- ISBN
- 9780816639939
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.53
€ 30.99
€ 27.53
paperback. Series: Design for Social Responsibility. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: AK; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138252424
- ISBN
- 9781138252424
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Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Paperback. Art's Undoing is about radical aestheticism, the term that best describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century British literature. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251124
- ISBN
- 9780823251124
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€ 33.99€ 30.86
€ 33.99
€ 30.86
hardcover. This collection reflects on developments in criticism which bear on a debate between different modes of knowledge: a science model and its place in the university versus other ways of conceiving knowledge for which the arts have traditionally been seen as vehicles. Editor(s): Fuller, David; Waugh, Patricia. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198186397
- ISBN
- 9780198186397
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Condition: New
€ 68.17
€ 68.17
Paperback.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780993010
- ISBN
- 9781780993010
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
€ 19.99
€ 18.62
paperback. Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art? Editor(s): Goldie, Peter; Schellekens, Elisabeth. Num Pages: 308 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACXJ5; HPM; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780199568253
- ISBN
- 9780199568253
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Condition: New
€ 61.36
€ 61.36
paperback. How do we appreciate a work of art? Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to explore connections between art, mind, and brain, Arthur Shimamura takes findings from psychological and brain sciences to address ways of understanding our aesthetic responses. Num Pages: 304 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 254 x 25. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190239077
- ISBN
- 9780190239077
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Condition: New
€ 62.00
€ 62.00
Paperback. Philosophers on Music presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Aestheticians, musicologists, music practitioners, and those interested in philosophy generally will find the papers in this volume rewarding reading. Editor(s): Stock, Kathleen. Num Pages: 274 pages, 25 musical examples. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPM; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199587995
- ISBN
- 9780199587995
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Condition: New
€ 60.73
€ 60.73
The Challenge of Surrealism: The Correspondence of Theodor W. Adorno a...
Lenk, Elisabeth, Adorno, Theodor W. Adorno
hardcover. Editor(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Translator(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816656165
- ISBN
- 9780816656165
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Condition: New
€ 103.50
€ 103.50