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  • Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

    by Amir H Ameri ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architectural History
    Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to these constants is the persistent role of aesthetics as a critical tool for the delimitation of architecture. This book analyzes the unceasing critical role aesthetics is given ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Architecture of the Illusive Distance

    by Amir H. Ameri ...
    Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture. It explores the cultural imperatives which have seen to the formation of these institutions, the development of their architecture, and their transformation over time. The relationship between culture and architecture is often ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Artist's Reality

    by Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko, Kate Prizel Rothko ...
    One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Mark Rothko (1903–1970) created a new and impassioned form of abstract painting over the course of his career. Rothko also wrote a number of essays and critical reviews during his lifetime, adding his thoughtful, intelligent, and opinionated voice to the debates of the contemporary art world. Although the artist never published a book of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Art as Experience

    by John Dewey ...
    Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Concerning the Spiritual in Art

    by Wassily Kandinsky ...
    Translated by Michael T. H. Sadler ...
    Kandinsky sees the spiritual life of humanity as a pyramid. The artist must lead the layman to the top of this pyramid through the soulful exercise of art. Kandinsky differentiates between the superficial pleasure art inspires and the inner resonance created when art is considered attentively and allowed to touch the soul. The artist is allowed absolute freedom in order to express their soul's art ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Grammars of Creation

    by George Steiner ...
    "A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle's eye-view of western literature." — Financial TimesEarly in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato's maxim that in "all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent." Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature—central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Jean-Paul Sartre

    The Emotions and Essays in Aesthetics

    by Jean-Paul Sartre ...
    The renowned French philosopher lays the foundation for an Existentialist approach to psychology and aesthetics in this pair of classic works.In The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, Jean-Paul Sartre explores the role of emotions in the human psyche, presenting a phenomenological approach to psychology. Analyzing the universal, yet subjective, experiences of fear, lust, anguish, and melancholy, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pleasure in Drawing

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    The renowned philosopher contemplates the medium of drawing in "a book full of dazzling insights, imaginative curves and provocative renewals" (Sarah Clift, University of King's College).In 2007, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy curated an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. This book, originally written for that exhibition, explores the interplay between drawing and form—viewing the act of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

    by Roger Scruton ...
    "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Aesthetic Theory

    Essential Texts for Architecture and Design

    Edited by Mark Foster Gage ...
    A collection of pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history, with an introduction and critical headnotes.This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia:Plato • Aristotle • Vitruvius • Alberti • Kant • Burke • Fiedler • Nietzsche • Wilde • Bergson • Bell • Scott • Benjamin • Bataille • Sontag • Jameson • Scarry ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Necessary Angel

    Essays on Reality and the Imagination

    by Wallace Stevens ...
    In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $6.99 USD