Aesthetics
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The Power of Cute
$14.95 Add to cartAn exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions
Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty- Author: May, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271143
- Language: English
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Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
$18.99 Add to cartA compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt
In Reclaim- Author: Martel, J. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1541607244
- Language: English
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The Generous Exchange: How Attention to Beauty, Goodness and Excellence Restores Us and Our World
$18.00 Add to cart- Author: Sirois, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 9798989945238
- Language: English
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
$20.00 Add to cartA reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing—on art, life, camp, and criticism–that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and b
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250374758
- Language: English
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Saxophone
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hawkins, Mollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114773
- Language: English
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An Anthology of Rain: Poems
$18.00 Read morePhillis Levin’s much-anticipated sixth collection, An Anthology of Rain, is a stunning series of poems immersed in time while acknowledging “How it is / Is not how it is / It keeps changing.” Yet the
- Author: Levin, Phillis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1962131068
- Language: English
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The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
$18.95 Add to cartWhy human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon–and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselves
In The Entanglement, philosopher Alva No? explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosop- Author: No?, Alva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0691249571
- Language: English
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The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism
$24.95 Add to cartFor Bataille, “the absence of myth” had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had “lost the secret of its cohesion,” Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of … [more below]
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804296597
- Language: English
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Aesthetics and Politics
$19.95 Add to cartAn intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature.
With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other c- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1788738586
- Language: English
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Pink: The History of a Color
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to Barbie
Pink has such powerful associations today that it’s ha- Series: History of a Color
- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0691266263
- Language: English
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Without Model: Parva Aesthetica
$24.50 Read moreEssays by Adorno on art and cinema, available in English for the first time.
In Without Model, Theodor W. Adorno strikingly demonstrates the intellectual range for which he is known. Taking the premi- Series: German List
- Author: Adorno, Theodor W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092181
- Language: English
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$15.95 Read moreOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue–sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things–and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary A… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177185
- Language: English
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In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics
$22.95 Read moreThe quality of blandness: no sooner do you identify it then it begins to appear at every turn. Blandness, by definition, pays little heed to the borders our various disciplines like to draw. As the em
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Jullien, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 14 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951420
- Language: English
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But is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory
$18.98 Add to cartFrom Andy Warhol’s Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today’s art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on display. This often leads exasperated viewers to exclaim–i… [more below]
- Author: Freeland, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 04 2002
- ISBN10: 0192853678
- Language: English
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Politics
$12.00 Read moreIntellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Famed Jowett translation of Aristotle’s masterwork.
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414248
- Language: English
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A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
$41.00 Read moreIn this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denote
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Pop, Andrei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1935408364
- Language: English
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner
$14.00 Read moreTwo representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche’s first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche i- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 1967
- ISBN10: 0394703693
- Language: English
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Wine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inex- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bernhard, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383612
- Language: English
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Humour
$15.00 Add to cartA compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture–by one of its greatest exponents
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the natur- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0300255020
- Language: English
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Relic
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signi- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765102282
- Language: English
