Aesthetics
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption
$27.99 Read moreParis Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.
April recommended r- Author: Kelleher, Katy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 198217935X
- Language: English
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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
$19.00 Add to cartA philosopher/mechanic’s wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one’s hands
“This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowled- Author: Crawford, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117467
- Language: English
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In Praise of Shadows
$11.95 Add to cartAn essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descri… [more below]
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0918172020
- Language: English
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Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
$19.95 Add to cartAn updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Every book about wabi-sabi is based on the paradigm introduced in the original edition of this
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0981484603
- Language: English
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
$16.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 24, 2021
- ISBN10: 0691229198
- Language: English
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The Beauty of Everyday Things
$17.00 Add to cartThe Japanese philosopher and aesthete’s definitive, hugely influential exposition of his philosophy of folkcrafts, setting out the hallmarks of Japanese design as we know it today: anonymity, quality,… [more below]
- Author: Yanagi, Soetsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0241366356
- Language: English
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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBeauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0199229759
- Language: English
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Cute as an Axolotl: Discovering the World’s Most Adorable Animals
$18.99 Add to cart“Cats of Instagram” meets National Geographic in this hilarious picture book about nature’s cutest weirdos from the author of Pink Is for Blobfish!
The Internet pretty much runs on cute animal photos,- Series: World of Weird Animals
- Author: Keating, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1524764477
- Language: English
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To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die: An Essay with Digressions
$25.00 Add to cartA book-length essay about photography’s unique ability to ease the ache of human mortality
Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinker
- Author: Carpenter, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985733006
- Language: English
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Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components
$39.99 Add to cartOpen Circuits is a photographic exploration of the beautiful design inside everyday electronics. Its stunning cross-section photography unlocks a hidden world full of elegance, subtle complexity, and … [more below]
- Author: Oskay, Windell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1718502346
- Language: English
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Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts
$19.95 Add to cartTwenty-plus years after the initial publication of Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, Leonard Koren is back with further insights into this seminal aesthetic paradigm. An importa
- Author: Koren, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0981484654
- Language: English
