Aesthetics
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White
$32.00 Read moreAn exploration of the essence of “White,” from the art director of Muji
White is not a book about colors. It is rather Kenya Haras attempt to explore the essence of “White”, which he sees as being clos
- Author: Hara, Kenya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 25 2009
- ISBN10: 3037781831
- Language: English
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Recipe
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instruct- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bloom, Lynn Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1501367102
- Language: English
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Profanations
$22.95 Read moreThe Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always been an original reader of texts, understanding their many rich and multiple historical, aesthetic, and political meanings and effects. In Profanatio
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1890951838
- Language: English
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Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie
$14.95 Read moreNarcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation?
Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of the- Author: Colquhoun, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420632
- Language: English
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Finding Beauty
$17.99 Add to cartYou are beautiful from the top of your head to the tip of your toes–but beauty is far more than something you can have. It’s also something you have to find. In other people. In nature. In acts of ki
- Author: Shipman, Talitha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1506463797
- Language: English
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Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World
$20.00 Read moreFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Eating the Sun and Lost in Translation, a gorgeously illustrated love letter to everything that is beautiful, and a manifesto for those who are struggling… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Ella Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0143137069
- Language: English
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Imagination: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating ho- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198830025
- Language: English
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Musings of a Curious Aesthete
$19.95 Read moreA quirky memoir of the aesthete responsible for creating culture icons such as WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and bringing the concept of wabi-sabi into Western aesthetic discourse.
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0981484670
- Language: English
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Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think about Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than ever
Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism
- Author: Scott, A. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143109979
- Language: English
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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
$9.95 Add to cartSure to be a classic, Donald Richie’s concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese
- Author: Richie, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1933330236
- Language: English
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Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
$19.95 Add to cartThe thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out the s… [more below]
- Series: Art and Imagination #2
- Author: Lawlor, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0500810303
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
$26.99 Read moreFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme o
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0063084643
- Language: English
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Utilidad de Lo Inútil, La
$14.95 Read moreIn this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism–for the fundamental… [more below]
- Author: Ordine, Nuccio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 8415689926
- Language: Spanish
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Mushroom
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Rich, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1501386581
- Language: English
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
$16.95 Add to cartIn these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually within us as well, and that a new mythology is implicit… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1608681106
- Language: English
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Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists
$15.95 Add to cartDiogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior were legendary, and it was by means of his renowned aphori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Diogenes the Cynic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0199589240
- Language: English
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Barcode
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Frith, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501399918
- Language: English
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Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art
$40.00 Add to cartA deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day
Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a dec- Author: Gurstein, Rochelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300215487
- Language: English
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
$17.99 Add to cartFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme o
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0063084651
- Language: English
