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  • The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott

    by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, Nancy Kang ...
    The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director’s feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters examine such signature works as Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma and Louise (1991), Gladiator ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Introducing Modernism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Chris Rodrigues ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland and the avant-garde theatre of Bertolt Brecht or Samuel Beckett. But what really defines modernism? Why did it begin and how long did it last? ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

    by Richard Eldridge ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art and performance art. This second edition incorporates significant new research on topics including pictorial depiction, musical expression, conceptual art, Hegel, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Art Beyond Representation

    The Performative Power of the Image

    by Barbara Bolt ...
    Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament, and Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Burke on the Sublime: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful with an Introductory Discourse Concerning Taste: A New Edition

    by Edmund Burke ...
    This new edition:Adds descriptive titles to each of Burke's five parts.Corrects Burke's inaccurate quotations.Translates Burke's foreign language quotations.Adds accurate citations for all references.Provides a bibliography of scholarly work on Burke's philosophy of art since 1995.Lists English editions of Burke's essay on the sublime from 1757 to 2008.Includes a 6350-word historical/philosophical ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essay on Exoticism

    An Aesthetics of Diversity

    by Victor Segalen, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Harry Harootunian ...
    Translated by Yael Rachel Schlick ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    The “Other”—source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen’s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity.Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • A Philosophy of Computer Art

    by Dominic Lopes ...
    What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and making art and that to understand computer art we need to place ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • On Film

    by Stephen Mulhall ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    First published in 2002. Few movies have captured our imagination as deeply and enduringly as those of the 'Alien' quartet, which follow the odyssey of Sigourney Weaver's Flight Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. In this gripping and limpidly written book, Stephen Mulhall shows why these films fascinate us, by showing that they are compelling examples of philosophy in action. Bringing a philosopher's eye to ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Disgust

    by Colin McGinn ...
    Disgust has a strong claim to be a distinctively human emotion. But what is it to be disgusting? What unifies the class of disgusting things? Colin McGinn sets out to analyze the content of disgust, arguing that life and death are implicit in its meaning. Disgust is a kind of philosophical emotion, reflecting the human attitude to the biological world. Yet it is an emotion we strive to repress. It ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Postdigital Aesthetics

    Art, Computation And Design

    Edited by D. Berry, M. Dieter ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world. ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Doppelganger

    Literature's Philosophy

    by Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Soul and Form

    Translated by Anna Bostock ...
    by Georg Lukács ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ... Read more

    $30.59 USD