Aesthetics
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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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Art Is Everywhere
$21.99 Add to cartA joyful introduction to art history
Art is everywhere. It’s in our galleries, on our streets and even in our homes. Join Keith, a world-renowned art historian (who also happens to be an ostrich), o- Author: Chan, Ellie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 178741910X
- Language: English
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What’s the Point of Art?
$19.99 Add to cartGet ready for a fun-filled journey through art, and discover why we make it and why it matters.
What’s the Point of Art? reveals how art has changed the world, one artistic movement at a time, and it i… [more below]- Series: DK What’s the Point Of?
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0744092043
- Language: English
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Drunken Silenus
$19.00 Add to cartThe Drunken Silenus is a book that is as hard to categorize as it is to put down–an enlightening and mesmerizing blend of philosophy, history, and art criticism. Morgan Meis begins simply enough, wit… [more below]
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: April 09 2020
- ISBN10: 163982054X
- Language: English
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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartThe classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art
A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Danto, Arthur C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0691163898
- Language: English
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Daily Bouquet
$9.99 Add to cartDaily Aphorisms and inspirational sayings to enhance your day.
“I have loved getting these …. a mind hug in the mornings.”
-Linda Scarborough, Co-Publisher,
Williamson County Sun
“Agree or not, David W
- Author: Watts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218241032
- Language: English
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Aesthetics Volume I
$30.99 Add to cart- Author: Von Hildebrand, Dietrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 510
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1939773040
- Language: English
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In Search of Wagner
$24.95 Add to cartWritten in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe’s most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner’s oeuvre with patent … [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673448
- Language: English
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The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet
$19.95 Read moreWhile everyone is delighted by beauty, and the more alive among us are positively fascinated by it, few are explicitly aware that we can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. Dubay explores th
- Author: DuBay, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: September 22, 1999
- ISBN10: 0898707528
- Language: English
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Art, AI and Culture
$22.95 Add to cartArt, AI and Culture interrogates the aesthetic heritage of Modernism as it informs contemporary cultural applications of AI which demonstrate there is no escape from the kaleidoscopic lineage of colon
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0979321549
- Language: English
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The Creativity of the Crisis
$18.00 Add to cartIt is sometimes proclaimed that crises generate creative powers. An idea to consider, beyond the banal advertising or entrepreneurial statements about the fruitful nature of crises (political, social,
- Author: Grossman, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 04 2023
- ISBN10: 194062553X
- Language: English
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
$15.00 Read moreGerman poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller’s famous text on art, politics, and society
“The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, … [more below]- Author: Schiller, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0141396962
- Language: English
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Media and Formal Cause
$18.95 Add to cartReviews
No one understood causality, whether Aristotelian or electric, like Marshall McLuhan. Now, in Media and Formal Cause, no one reveals understanding of formal cause in the digital environment be- Author: McLuhan, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: February 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0983274703
- Language: English
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Studies in the History of the Renaissance
$11.95 Add to cartThrough his highly idiosyncratic readings of some of the finest paintings, sculptures, and poems of the French and Italian Renaissance, Walter Pater in Studies in the History of the Renaissance redefi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pater, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199535078
- Language: English
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The Joyous Science
$16.00 Add to cartGrounded in his famous notion that “God is dead,” Nietzsche’s most personal book–and one of his best
A Penguin Classic The Joyous Science–also known as The Gay Science and The Joyful Wisdom–is a li- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0141195398
- Language: English
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Late Marxism: Adorno, Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic
$19.95 Add to cartIn the name of an assault on “totalization” and “identity,” a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism’s dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism a… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers #18
- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675750
- Language: English
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Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
$18.95 Add to cartEvery year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don’t know how to fix them. Some products are manufactured in a way that makes it hard, if not impossible, for people to repair t… [more below]
- Author: Wackman, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1608686604
- Language: English
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RASA or knowledge of the self
$19.99 Add to cartRené Daumal (b. 1908) is best known for his novel Mt. Analogue, unfinished at his death, in 1944 (other works in English include A Night of Serious Drinking and The Power of the Word). Daumal was an
- Author: Levi, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1887276416
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason
$26.95 Add to cartIs there too much violence in hip-hop music? What’s the difference between Kimberly Jones and the artist Lil’ Kim? Is hip-hop culture a “black” thing? Is it okay for N.W.A. to call themselves niggaz a… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture & Philosophy #16
- Author: Darby, Derrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0812695895
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
$10.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to l… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0451149165
- Language: English
