Aesthetics
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Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design
$29.99 Add to cartPlato – Aristotle – Vitruvius – Alberti – Kant – Burke – Fiedler – Nietzsche – Wilde – Bergson – Bell – Scott – Benjamin – Bataille – Sontag – Jameson – Scarry – Nehamas – Zangwill – Freedberg and Gal… [more below]
- Author: Gage, Mark Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393733491
- Language: English
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This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
$28.00 Read moreAn acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living
You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions–this delicate and difficult
- Author: Riggle, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675509
- Language: English
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
$24.95 Add to cartAn invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everyb- Author: Hitz, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691178712
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Cleaning
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated MUJI designer and bestselling author of 100 Whites and Designing Japan, a compact and beautifully designed guide to the art of cleaning
Cleanliness is a core value of societies arou
- Author: Hara, Kenya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3037787325
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
$18.95 Add to cart“Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters).” –Nick Offerman
In an era when there are countless co
- Author: Rogowski, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353145
- Language: English
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Art Can Help
$16.00 Read moreA collection of inspiring essays by the photographer Robert Adams, who advocates the meaningfulness of art in a disillusioned society
In Art Can Help, the internationally acclaimed American photograp- Author: Adams, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 0300260245
- Language: English
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Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
$21.99 Add to cartA philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves
In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva No? argues that our- Author: No?, Alva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0809089165
- Language: English
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Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn’t just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera performance,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Nanay, Bence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198826613
- Language: English
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Poetics
$4.50 Add to cartAmong the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle’s Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 12 1997
- ISBN10: 048629577X
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgment
$9.95 Add to cartThis 1790 polemic by one of philosophy’s most important and influential figures attempts to establish the principles that support the faculty of judgment. Kant’s third critique — after Critique of Pr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445437
- Language: English
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Doorway to Artistry
$32.00 Add to cartYour artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at… [more below]
- Author: Meek, Esther Lightcap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1666769681
- Language: English
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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
$18.95 Add to cart“Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision,” Terry Tempest Williams tells us. “Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together.” Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where sh… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0375725199
- Language: English
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Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s (Loa #246): Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollect
$45.00 Add to cart- Series: Library of America Susan Sontag Edition #1
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 875
- Publish Date: September 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1598532553
- Language: English
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
$19.99 Add to cartHalf a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the wo
- Author: Rankin, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 082488308X
- Language: English
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Pencil
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destr- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Beggy, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1501392247
- Language: English
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Against Nature
$21.99 Add to cartJoris-Karl Huysmans’s cult classic of deviance and decadence that inspired Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray, now in a new translation by Theo Cuffe
A celebration of deviance, vanity, sensual abando- Author: Huysmans, Joris Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250787661
- Language: English
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Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?
$20.00 Add to cartWho Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created.
Carved by an obscure Greek sculptor, Alexandros of Antioch,
- Author: Cousineau, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868926587
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
$7.00 Add to cartAfter kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conven… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 048629868X
- Language: English
