Aesthetics
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Why Dance Matters
$26.00 Read moreA passionate and moving tribute to the captivating power of dance, not just as an art form but as a language that transcends barriers
“[A] smart, bracing book of reflection, analysis, memoir and histo- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Aloff, Mindy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0300204523
- Language: English
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Beauty
$44.95 Read moreAcclaimed designers Sagmeister & Walsh explore the essence of beauty and the transformative power of beautiful design
In this groundbreaking highly visual book, world-renowned designers Stefan Sagmeist
- Author: Sagmeister, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 19 2018
- ISBN10: 0714877271
- Language: English
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Against Nature: A Rebours
$13.95 Add to cartResisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555117
- Language: English
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Against Nature: A Rebours
$13.95 Add to cartResisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Huysmans, Joris-Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555117
- Language: English
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What Is Art?
$16.00 Read moreThis profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art revea… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140446427
- Language: English
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The Life of Forms in Art
$24.95 Add to cartIn this beautiful meditation on the art-historical problem of style, Henri Focillon (1881-1943) describes how art forms change over time. Although he argues that the development of art is irreducible
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Focillon, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299574
- Language: English
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
$16.95 Add to cartA landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of
- Author: Shields, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0307387976
- Language: English
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Philosophical Enquiry Sublime and Beautiful
$15.95 Add to cartPaul Guyer conducts the reader through Burke’s ‘Enquiry’, focusing on its place in the history of aesthetics and highlighting its innovations, as well as its influence on many subsequent authors from … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Burke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019966871X
- Language: English
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
$15.00 Add to cartThe book Nietzsche called “the most personal of all my books.” It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God–to which a large part of the book is devoted–and his doctrine of the eternal recu… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394719859
- Language: English
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Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters
$14.95 Add to cartWhat we moderns have forgotten, the ancients knew well: true beauty heals the soul, draws us to God, and yields lasting happiness.
Rich with the wisdom of Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and St. John Paul I
- Author: Miravalle, John-Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1622827120
- Language: English
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Art as Experience
$19.00 Add to cartBased on John Dewey’s lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished wo… [more below]
- Author: Dewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 05 2005
- ISBN10: 0399531971
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Games
$24.95 Read more“A general-readership book about games as an aesthetic form – how to think about the ways in which they create beauty and meaning and exploring the special role they have to play in our present histor
- Series: Playful Thinking
- Author: Lantz, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048531
- Language: English
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
$18.00 Add to cartCamera Lucida, Roland Barthes’s personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book he published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to th
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532338
- Language: English
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Poetics
$13.00 Add to cartEssential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, and equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature
In the Poetics, his near-contemporary account of classical Greek traged- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140446362
- Language: English
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The Birth of Tragedy
$10.95 Add to cartIn The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche expounds on the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its time. He declares it to be the expression of a culture which has achieved a de… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540144
- Language: English
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The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are
$46.58 Read moreWhy 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0691188815
- Language: English
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Crossing the Threshold: Etheric Imagination in the Post-Kantian Process Philosophy of Schelling and Whitehead
$24.00 Add to cartThis book is a philosophical experiment in thinking, feeling, and willing beyond the transcendental threshold of Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy. It draws inspiration from the organic process phil
- Author: Segall, Matthew David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: April 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 1947544489
- Language: English
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Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartAbout the Series: Oxford’s Very Short Introductions offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects–from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, and Literary Theory to Histor… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Freeland, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0192804634
- Language: English
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On Beauty and Being Just
$20.95 Add to cartHave we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is th
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0691089590
- Language: English
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Film for Her
$21.99 Add to cartWith both pen and camera lens, Orion Carloto captures the dreamlike beauty of memory.
Film for Her is a story book of people, places, and memories captured on film. Through photographs, poetry, prose,- Author: Carloto, Orion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: 17-Nov-20
- ISBN10: 1524853771
- Language: English
