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Oslo Academic Press Aesthetics at Work
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£18.90
Oslo Academic Press Aesthetics in Prose
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£27.20
Editorial Trotta, S.A. Arte y poder aproximacin a la esttica de
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£34.16
Museum Tusculanum Press Transfiguration: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kunst &
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£19.79
Aarhus University Press Power of Beauty: On the Aesthetics of Homer,
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£18.00
Aarhus University Press The Aesthetics of the Elements
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£11.21
Aarhus University Press Aesthetics of Television
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£12.35
Aarhus University Press Exploring Textual Action
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£30.71
Aarhus University Press Confronting Universalities: Aesthetics & Politics
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£24.75
Eyecorner Press Towards a Genealogy of Spectacle: understanding contemporary spectacular experiences
£21.54
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Meditazioni Scismatiche: Il Nulla E Il Tempo,
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£128.98
Viella Plotinus and the Origins of Medieval Aesthetics
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£28.00
Mimesis International The Sensible Invisible
Book SynopsisThe itineraries suggested in this book interrogate the ontological and metaphysical sense of aesthetic experience, understood as the primary experience, in which our complexity as human beings is invested by the world and manifests itself.
£10.00
Mimesis International The Brutality of Things: Psychic Transformations
Book SynopsisThe author examines this theme through the psychoanalytic approach, as well as through philosophy, science and art, and using stories based on personal life and clinical experiences.
£12.00
Mimesis International The Atmospheric We : Moods and Collective
Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between atmospheres, expressive qualities, moods and collective feelings.
£25.64
Brill Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise this volume propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms. Imagination and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory explores the complex nuances, paradoxes, and aporias related to the plethora of artistic mediums in which the human imagination manifests itself. As a fundamental attribute of our species, which other organisms also seem to possess with varying degrees of sophistication, imagination is the very fabric of what it means to be human into which everything is woven. This edited collection demonstrates that imagination is the resin that binds human civilization together for better or worse.Trade Review'At the end of this wonderful journey through the theories of imagination and the various types of imaginaries, one is certainly fascinated by a polysemic view of the concept of imagination. Moser and Sukla have managed to find the best way to organise and channel a multitude of expert opinions towards a single goal: the revival of interest in the subject of imagination and its profound meaning in human life.' - Carlo Alessandro Caccia, in: enthymema (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Historical Imagination and Judgement 1 Imagination and Art in Classical Greece and Rome David Konstan 2 Poetic Imagination and Cultural Memory in Greek History and Mythology Claude Calame 3 History, Imagination and the Narrative of Loss: Philosophical Questions about the Task of Historical Judgment Allen Speight Part 2: Gendered Imagination 4 Imagining the Captive Amazon: Myth, Art, and History Adrienne Mayor 5 Gender and Imagination: A Feminist Analysis of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men< Reshmi Mukherjee Part 3: Imagination and Ethics 6 Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance: A Genesis of the Post-freudian World Carol Steinberg Gould 7 Craving Sameness, Accepting Difference: Imaginative Possibilities for Solidarity and Social Justice Chandra Kavanagh 8 The Importance of Imagination/Phantasia for the Moral Psychology of Virtue Ethics David Collins 9 The Infanticidal Logic of Mimesis as Horizon of the Imaginable A. Samuel Kimball 10 The Relationship Between Imagination and Christian Prayer Michel Dion Part 4: Phenomenological and Epistemological Perspectives 11 The Work Texts Do: Toward a Phenomenology of Imagining Imaginatively Charles Altieri 12 Conceiving and Imagining: Examples and Lessons Jody Azzouni 13 The Dance of Perception: The Role of the Imagination in Simone Weil’s Early Epistemology Warren Heiti 14 One Imagination or Many? or None? Rob van Gerwen 15 Nietzsche on Theatricality and Imagination Roderick Nicholls Part 5: Postmodern Perspectives 16 Simulacral Imagination and the Nexus of Power in a Post-marxist Universe Keith Moser 17 Jean-François Lyotard, the Radical Imagination, and the Aesthetic of the Differend Victor E. Taylor 18 The Possibility of a Productive Imagination in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari Erik Bormanis Part 6:Imagination in Scientific Modeling and Biosemiotics 19 Of Predators and Prey: Imagination in Scientific Modeling Fiora Salis 20 Geometry and the Imagination Justin Humphreys 21 Art and Imagination: The Evolution of Meanings Wendy Wheeler Part 7: Aesthetic Perspectives 22 Image, Image-making and Imagination Dominic Gregory 23 Depiction, Imagination, and Photography Jiri Benovksy 24 Imagination and Identification in Photography and Film David Fenner 25 Imagination in Musical Composition, Performance, and Listening: John Cage’s Blurring of Boundaries in Music and Life in 4′33″ Deborah Fillerup Weagel 26 Kinesthetic Imagining and Dance Appreciation Renee M. Conroy 27 Imagination in Games: Formulation, Re-actualization and Gaining a World Ton Kruse 28 “‘I AM not mad, most noble Festus.’ No. But I have been”: Possible Worlds Theory and the Complex, Imaginative Worlds of Sarban’s The Sound of his Horn Riyukta Raghunath Part 8: Non-western Perspectives 29 The Deep Frivolity of Life: An Indian Aesthetic Phenomenology of Fun Arindam Chakrabarti 30 The Symbolic Force of Rocks in the Chinese Imagination Yanping Gao 31 Magic from the Repressed: Imagination and Memories in Contemporary Japanese Literary Narratives Amy Lee 32 The Metaphysics of Creativity: Imagination in Sufism, from the Qurʾan into Ibn al-ʿArabi’ Ali Hussain Part 9: Artists Reflect on Imagination: An Imaginative Epilogue 33 Free Thinking about Imagination: How is it to Imagine What Imagination is? Marion Renauld 34 The Nativity of Images Ton Kruse 35 Signal: Poetry and Imagination Jesse Graves 36 The Echo of Voices Umar Timol 37 Poem, Liberty Louise Dupré 38 Why to Wish for the Witch Lisa Fay Coutley Index
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Brill Somaesthetics and Sport
Book SynopsisSomaesthetics and Sport brings together a diverse set of explorations into the embodied experience of watching and playing sport. Sport can at once be a source of sensual beauty and pleasure, and also of pain and anguish; spectators can both celebrate and glorify athletes, but also expect certain forms of behaviour, and intentionally or otherwise police the movements of their bodies; sport and physical exercise can improve our health and increase the self-awareness of our abilities and limitations, but they also help us to shape our sense of what it means to live a good life. Trade Review“The ten essays collected in Somaesthetics and Sport, edited by Andrew Edgar and published as part of Brill’s book series Studies in Somaesthetics, show us the many ways the interdisciplinary project of somaesthetics can inspire and reinvigorate the aesthetics of sport... Somaesthetics and Sport is a multifaceted collection of essays: Shusterman’s theoretical framework is robust enough to lend unity to the volume, but it mostly functions as a springboard for the individual papers, never suffocating their theoretical explorations or making the book repetitive or a boring read. The ten essays also communicate with one another through certain recurring notions” - Botond Csuka, in: Journal of the Philosophy of Sport (29 January 2023)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Andrew Edgar 1 A Dove in Flight Metaphysical Shackles, Transformative Soaring, and Sportive Somaesthetics Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza 2 Somaesthetics and Sport? Graham McFee 3 Sport and the Body An Aesthetic Inquiry William J. Morgan 4 Changing Perceptions of Beautiful Bodies The Athletic Agency Model Peg Brand Weiser 5 The Sachin Mandala Somaesthetic Construction of a Cricket Legend Vinod Balakrishnan 6 Somaesthetics of the Grunt Policing Femininity in the Soundscapes of Women’s Professional Tennis Anita Stahl 7 Somatic Reflection during Skilled Action John Toner and Barbara Gail Montero 8 Yoga as World Literature Somaesthetic Ekphrasis and (Mis)Translation Claire Solomon 9 Difficult Activities – Difficult Experiences Matti Tainio 10 Sport and Pain Andrew Edgar Index
£111.15
Brill The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and
Book SynopsisIn the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Vörmarz Germany (1815–1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Büchner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Introduction 1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation 2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject 3 Romantic Anti-capitalism 4 Historiography of Rescue 5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure 6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz 7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement 1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter 2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling 3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals 1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’ 2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger 3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be 4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics 1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger 2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory 1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London 2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist 3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’ 4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian 5 Relentlessness 6 Mystères – Misère 7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs 8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom 1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’ 2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’ 3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels 4 Class Slavery 5 Why ‘White Slaves’? 6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique 7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’ 1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People 2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage 3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’ 7 Class in Struggle 1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck 2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne 3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling 4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm 5 Rescuing the Rebels 6 Revenge and Class 7 The Machine Breakers 8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? 9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel 10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from Above Bibliography Index
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Brill Aesthetics in Arabic Thought
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De Gruyter Modern Aesthetics
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Peeters Publishers Crises. Mallarme Via Manet. (De The
Book SynopsisEn septembre 1876, a Londres, Stephane Mallarme publiait en langue anglaise une longue etude sur "Les impressionnistes et Edouard Manet". N'ayant pas ete recueilli dans les Oeuvres completes du poete, cette etude est largement meconnue des non-specialistes. Il s'agit pourtant d'un texte capital, tant dans l'histoire du discours de critique d'art que dans la trajectoire intellectuelle du poete. Pour la premiere fois, celui-ci explore une esthetique de crise, en la situant dans son champ d'effraction et en relation (pour le moins inattendue sous sa plume) avec les mutations socio-politiques de son temps. En ce sens et sous plus d'un egard, ce texte constitue la matrice du grand article qu'il consacrera, sous le titre "crise de vers", aux turbulences de tous ordres - prosodique, esthetique, linguistique, social - qui agiteront la scene poetique dans les annees 1880-1890. C'est sur ces deux articles, commentes integralement et donnes en version integrale, que porte la presente etude, articulant inseparablement a une exegese interne, une approche a caractere historique et sociologique. Lecture patiente, insistante, reinstallant leur contexte a l'interieur des textes examines. C'est a ce prix qu'il est permis d'approcher ce que deux textes majeurs ont cherche a faire voir dans la lueur orageuse des crises qui ont tour a tour eclate dans l'espace pictural et dans l'espace poetique. La double lecture dont se compose le present volume, on l'aura compris, n'entend pas seulement a l'ecoute d'un autre Mallarme, attentif au social et a ce qui s'y relie dans les phenomenes les plus tenus de l'ecriture ou de la representation, mais aussi apporter, au-dela du cas Mallarme et au-dela du cas Manet, une contribution a l'histoire sociale des formes esthetiques et des discours sur ces formes.
£25.43
Peeters Publishers Formes Et Politique De La Bande Dessinee
Book SynopsisLe present essai part d'une hypothese toute simple: elle tente de demontrer que loin de s'exclure, l'analyse du recit et la lecture microscopique de certains details formels se renforcent et se soutiennent l'une l'autre. Il essaie d'en fournir la demonstration par le biais d'une serie d'etudes tres fournies portant aussi bien sur les "grands auteurs" du genre, comme Herge, Herriman, Vandersteen, Breccia, Pratt ou Swarte, que sur un ensemble de createurs qu'il est urgent de decouvrir comme Ricard Castells ou les jeunes auteurs europeens, representes surtout par le collectif belge des editions Freon. L'examen de certaines microscopies n'est pourtant jamais un but de soi. Les enjeux de l'operation sont clairement politiques, comme l'indiquent clairement les manifestations organisees dans le cadre d'un mouvement ici lu de tres pres: Autarcic Comix. La deuxieme these de ce livre est en effet que la dimension formelle d'une oeuvre n'est pas sans rapport avec sa pertinence politique. Cette facon de lire la bande dessinee lui rend la fonction critique tellement mise a mal par les facilites de toujours et rappelle que le genre, au meme titre que le jazz ou le cinema, se trouve au coeur de la vie et de l'art du XXe siecle.
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Peeters Publishers Huysmans, a Cote Et Au-dela
Book SynopsisSi la critique contemporaine connait bien le parcours de Joris-Karl Huysmans, ecrivain qui epouse d'abord la cause naturaliste avant de s'en ecarter pour s'orienter vers une quete plus personnelle, les "a cotes" de l'oeuvre restent encore dans l'ombre: poemes en prose, carnets intimes, correspondance, manuscrits inacheves, critiques d'art, etc. Le present ouvrage, qui rassemble les actes d'un colloque tenu a Cerisy l'ete 1998, tente de rendre a Huysmans la diversite et la richesse qui lui reviennent en proposant a la fois de nouvelles interpretations des textes les plus connus, ainsi qu'une exploration des marges. Le moment semble en effet venu de remettre en question une image un peu trop figee de l'oeuvre pour proposer d'autres voies de recherches, un "au-dela" qui incite a la voir sous un jour nouveau, en tenant notamment compte des textes retrouves. Nouveaux regards, nouvelles lectures reunissent ainsi specialistes internationaux, amateurs et curieux, dans un echange fecond d'idees et de perspectives. Jean-Pierre Bertrand, professeur de litterature francaise des 19e et 20e siecles a l'universite de Liege, specialiste de Jules Laforgue et de la litterature fin de siecle en France et en Belgique. Sylvie Duran, universite de Bordeaux III, specialiste de Huysmans, de sa correspondance et de son "Carnet vert". Francoise Grauby, professeur de literature francaise a l'universite de Sydney, specialiste de la litterature francaise de la fin du 19e siecle et de ses mythologies.
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Peeters Publishers Le Rire Inextinguible Des Dieux
Book SynopsisPlaton condamnait Homere pour avoir ose parler du "rire inextinguible des dieux". Au-dela de la reprobation morale de la raillerie, il devait bien avoir percu dans le rire une puissance d'exces capable d'ebranler la serenite du sage. Les modernes, philosophes (Descartes, Schopenhauer, Kant) et - davantage encore - psychanalystes (Freud, Lacan), ont traque dans l'esprit meme les sources de cette puissance transgressive. Mais le rire comme tel leur est reste une enigme. Pourtant, a suivre l'entrecroisement de leurs explications, il est possible d'approcher le mystere de cette voix "inarticulee et eclatante" qui s'exalte dans le rire et que Nietzsche, Baudelaire et, surtout, Bataille ont reconnu comme la part essentielle de ce que l'homme y joue de son etre meme.
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Peeters Publishers Aesthetics as a Religious Factor in Eastern and
Book SynopsisThis volume contains selected papers of a conference in 2004 at Utrecht University on aesthetics as a religious factor in Eastern and Western Christianity. They discuss the role of aesthetics in the presentation and expression of Christian faith in Catholic and Orthodox tradition. During its history Christianity has produced many works of art: church architecture, iconography, painting, music and literary texts. And in Orthodoxy beauty has always been the main form of religious expression, more than verbal presentation of Christian teaching, which is embedded in the aesthetic context of liturgy. In Christian theology beauty has often been seen as a form of divine revelation, related to the mystery of incarnation. The relation between aesthetics and religious belief has acquired new relevance in our secularised world. Today the visible products of Catholic and Orthodox aesthetics are for many people the main means through which they come into contact with Christianity and many people without affinity to religion are attracted by the beauty of Christian art, inside and outside the church. In modern religious studies the experience of beauty is recognised as a factor in explaining religious feelings. The papers are divided in four sections: 1. Comparative aspects of Orthodox and Catholic aesthetics, 2. Religious aesthetics in Russian literary culture, 3. Applied aesthetics in church art, 4. Art-theoretical, ideological and religious-philosophical aspects.
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Leuven University Press Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour
Book SynopsisEpilogue by Christine Buci-GlucksmannKarel Appel. A Gesture of Colour is the first of a series of six volumes, bringing together the most important writings of Jean-François Lyotard (1924 - 1998) on contemporary art and artists. The book he devoted to the art of Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) is doubtlessly one of the most complete and inspired texts of all the writings included in the series. Neither the original French manuscript nor the English translation have ever been published, and their presentation face to face should constitute a considerable plus.In this book, Lyotard presents Karel Appel's "matterism" as an offer of presence, presence deferred - it is the visual where every predicate is suspended, the visual touched, "gesture" of colour more than property of colour, appearance at the edge of the abyss. Christine Buci-Glucksmann's epilogue indicates the position of Karel Appel. A Gesture of Colour within the whole of Lyotard's writings on art, considering equally the philosopher's subsequent work.Winner of the Plantin Moretus Prize 2010 for the best designed book in the category textbooks and academic publications Photo Credits: Van Looveren & PrincenTrade ReviewKarel Appel: Un geste de couleur is the premier edition in a five volume series devoted to writings on contemporary artists by Jean-François Lyotard. This is the first French/English translation of the manuscript since originally being published in German in 1998, the year of Lyotard‟s death. The book is a sturdy, hard bound, bilingual edition with twenty-five small color plates at its close which are cited throughout the text.The overall structure of Un geste de couleur is linear with each chapter narrating a step in the process of Lyotard‟s engagement with Appel‟s work. Graduate and undergraduate students familiar with either philosophy or art theory will recognize some of the terminology and concepts discussed however specialization is not a prerequisite. Lyotard contextualizes his ideas such as "before-shock" and "immateriality" within the body of the text resulting in a less formal tone when compared to his other writings. For an excellent summary of the book there is Christine Buci-Glucksman‟s epilogue. She encapsulates Lyotard‟s thought for those who struggle, but situates Un geste within a greater lineage of aesthetic discourse.Matthew Mann, Library Associate/Exhibition Coordinator, Arts + Humanities Division, Art Libraries Society of North America, 2010Table of ContentsHerman Parret:6 Préface /15 PrefaceJean-François Lyotard:22 Karel Appel. Un geste de couleur /23 Karel Appel. A Gesture of ColourChristine Buci-Glucksmann:224 Postface /237 Epilogue250 Illustrations
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Leuven University Press Miscellaneous Texts: Aesthetics and Theory of
Book SynopsisTWO-VOLUME SET! Buy volume 4, I & 4, II together and receive € 20 discount. You only pay €109 instead of € 129! >Ce second tome du quatrième volume rassemble trente-neuf textes de Lyotard qui concernent vingt-six artistes contemporains importants et novateurs : Luciano Berio, Richard Lindner, René Guiffrey, Gianfranco Baruchello, Henri Maccheroni, Riwan Tromeur, Albert Ayme, Manuel Casimiro, Ruth Francken, Barnett Newman, Jean-Luc Parant, François Lapouge, Sam Francis, André Dubreuil, Joseph Kosuth, Sarah Flohr, Lino Centi, Gigliola Fazzini, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Henri Martin, Michel Bouvet, Corinne Filippi, Stig Brøgger, François Rouan, Pierre Skira et Béatrice Casadesus. Plusieurs de ces textes sont des contributions à des catalogues dont certains sont inaccessibles ou introuvables. Ce volume est illustré par plus de soixante images, pour la plupart en couleur, d'oeuvres d'art commentées par Lyotard dans ces textes. On comprend que Lyotard, au titre d'une esthétique de la présence matérielle, favorise la peinture. L'art de peindre, pour qu'il y ait présence, doit se rendre à ce rien qui vibre entre le vide et le plein, un air, un clinamen, un neutre, une nuance, un timbre.This second book of the fourth volume in the series brings together thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary artists: Luciano Berio, Richard Lindner, René Guiffrey, Gianfranco Baruchello, Henri Maccheroni, Riwan Tromeur, Albert Ayme, Manuel Casimiro, Ruth Francken, Barnett Newman, Jean-Luc Parant, François Lapouge, Sam Francis, André Dubreuil, Joseph Kosuth, Sarah Flohr, Lino Centi, Gigliola Fazzini, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Henri Martin, Michel Bouvet, Corinne Filippi, Stig Brøgger, François Rouan, Pierre Skira, and Béatrice Casadesus. Some of these texts were originally written as contributions to catalogues; others were published in now-inaccessible journals. This volume is illustrated with more than sixty images, mainly in colour, of works of art discussed by Lyotard in these writings.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Table of ContentsTable des matières Table of contents Herman Parret: Préface / Preface Jean-François Lyotard: Luciano Berio 1 « A Few Words to Sing ». Sequenza iii 1 "A Few Words to Sing". Sequenza iii Richard Lindner 2 Les filles folles de Lindner 2 Lindner's Crazy Girls René Guiffrey 3 En attendant Guiffrey (quatre pièces pour un abstrait) 3 Waiting for Guiffrey (Four Pieces for an Abstract) 4 Sur cinq peintures de René Guiffrey 4 On Five Paintings by René Guiffrey 5 Entretien avec René Guiffrey sur le blanc, la ligne et l'imprésentable (extraits) 5 Discussion with René Guiffrey about the Colour White, the Line and the Unpresentable (Fragments) Gianfranco Baruchello 6 « Pour faire de ton fils un baruchello » 6 "To Make a Baruchello of Your Son" 7 Commentaire des Carnets de Baruchello 7 Commentary to Baruchello's Notebooks 8 Loin du doux 8 Far from Sweet 9 Essai sur le secret dans l'oeuvre de Baruchello 9 Essay on the Secret in Baruchello's Work 10 Entretien avec Gianfranco Baruchello sur la douceur (extraits) 10 Discussion with Gianfranco Baruchello on Sweetness (excerpts) Henri Maccheroni 11 La partie de peinture 11 A Game of Painting 12a La dernière fois (New York) 12a The Last Time (New York) 12b Pharaonne 12b She-Pharaoh Riwan Tromeur 13 Plusieurs manières, un seul enjeu 13 Several Ways, a Single Stake Albert Ayme 14 Sur la constitution du temps par la couleur dans les oeuvres récentes d'Albert Ayme 14 On the Constitution of Time through Colour in the Recent Works of Albert Ayme 15 Nécessité de Lazare 15 Fait pictural [Necessity of Lazarus] Manuel Casimiro 16 Par-dessus le pathos 16 Beyond Pathos Ruth Francken 17 L'histoire de Ruth 17 The Story of Ruth 18 La brûlure du silence 18 Sear of Silence Barnett Newman 19 L'instant, Newman 19 Newman: The Instant Jean-Luc Parant 20 L'attraction 20 Attraction François Lapouge 21 « Cher François Lapouge. Je ne vous connais pas... » 21 "Dear François Lapouge..." 22 La face des choses 22 The Face of Things 23 Regarder le réel 23 Looking at the Real Les Graphistes / The Graphic Artists 24 Paradoxe sur le graphiste 24 Paradox on the Graphic Artist Sam Francis 25 La peinture à même. Esquisse d'hommage à Sam Francis 25 Painting Right on It André Dubreuil 26 « Commode » 26 "On André Dubreuil's Commode" Joseph Kosuth 27 Foreword. After the Words 27 Foreword: After the Words Sarah Flohr 28 [Sans titre] 28 [No title] Lino Centi 29 Sondes : Les timbres de Lino Centi 29 Probes : Lino Centi's "Timbres" Gigliola Fazzini 30 Le voeu 30 The Vow Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger 31 Les traces diffractées 31 Diffracted Traces 32 Anamnèse du visible 32 Anamnesis of the Visible Henri Martin 33 Généalogie de la touche 33 Genealogy of Touch Michel Bouvet 34 L'annonce 34 The Announcement Corinne Filippi 35 Syncopes, paysages 35 Syncopes, Landscapes Stig Brøgger 36 Flora danica. La sécession du geste dans la peinture de Stig Brøgger 36 Flora Danica. The Secession of the Gesture in the Painting of Stig Brøgger François Rouan 37 Mirótopos 37 Mirótopos Pierre Skira 38 Parce que la couleur est un cas de la poussière 38 Because Colour is a Case of Dust Béatrice Casadesus 39 « Livre unique » 39 ["Livre unique"] Dolorès Lyotard: Postface / Epilogue Illustrations
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Leuven University Press Minor Photography: Connecting Deleuze and
Book SynopsisThe first book to apply the concept of the ‘minor' to the theory of photography. The notion of the minor, developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Kafka, Towards a minor literature (1975), is introduced and connected applied here for the very first time to the field of photography theory. Deleuze and Guattari defined minor literature in terms of deterritorialization, politicization and collectivization. By transferring ‘the minor' to the medium of photography, this book enlarges the idea of ‘the minor' and opens it up to all kinds of mutations in the process. The essays gathered in this book discuss the ways in which photography can make the dominant codes of representation stammer and how it can produce new effects and address people yet to come. The authors consider ‘the minor' as a valuable tool to help photography research move beyond, or in between, binary and hierarchized ways of thinking (of high and low art, for example, or centre and periphery). As such, it aims to contribute to a rethinking of photography as multiplicity and variation. Consequently, the term is connected with both marginal and canonical photographic practices, covering photographers as different as Miroslav Tichy, Paul McCarthy, Tacita Dean, Dan Graham, and Paul Nougé. After developing a theory of the minor, this book explores how the operations of the minor can be found in major art practices. It closes by tackling the question of photography as variation in case studies of belated forms of surrealist photography. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionMieke BleyenPart 1 Towards a Theory of the Minor1 From Stuttering and Stammering to the Diagram: Towards a Minor Art Practice?Simon O'Sullivan2 Tichy as a Maverick: Singular Figure of a Minor Photography?Gilles Rouffineau3 Always in the Middle: the Photographic Work of Marcel Marien.A Minor ApproachMieke BleyenPart 2 Major Artists - Minor Practice?4 Fear of Reflections: The Photoworks of Paul McCarthyNeil Matheson5 Considering the Minor in the Literary and Photographic Works of Rodney Graham and Tacita DeanChrista-Maria Lerm Hayes6 Entertaining Conceptual Art: Dan Graham on Dean MartinEric C.H. de BruynPart 3 Surrealism in Variation7 Towards a Minor Surrealism: Paul Nouge and the Subversion of ImagesFrédéric Thomas8 Conceptual Art and Surrealism: an Exceptional, Belgian LiaisonLiesbeth Decan9 Systematic Confusion and the Total Discredit of the World of Reality:Surrealism and Photography in Japan of the 1930sJelena StojkovićNotes on the AuthorsColor Section
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Leuven University Press Heterogeneous Objects: Intermedia and Photography
Book SynopsisExploring the influence of other media on contemporary photography. ‘Heterogeneous Objects’ provides various essays that explore the encounter of photography with other media since the 1960s. The essays offer new ways of thinking about photography beyond modernist notions of medium specificity and autonomy based upon the idea that a photograph does not rely on a coherent system of codes but is almost always encountered as a fragmented, partial object. Addressing recent debates in art history and photography theory, film studies, and media theory, the contributions cover a broad array of approaches, relating photography to issues of the panorama, surveillance, sculpture, transformation and processuality, and the development of new media categories. Rather than conceiving of photography as a medium, the aim is to reconsider the photograph as a historically, theoretically, and culturally embedded heterogeneous object that is always related to, in contact with, or shaped by other media. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Contributors: Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick), Steven Jacobs (University of Gent), Joanna Lowry (University of Brighton), Marcel Marburger (Universität der Künste, Berlin), Raphaël Pirenne (Université catholique de Louvain), Yvonne Spielmann (University of the West of Scotland), Alexander Streitberger (Université catholique de Louvain), Hilde Van Gelder (University of Leuven)Table of ContentsIntroductionRaphaël Pirenne & Alexander Streitberger1 Automat, Automatic, Automatism: Rosalind Krauss and Stanley Cavell on Photography and the 'Photographically-Dependent' ArtsDiarmuid Costello2 Eleven Color PhotographsNauman, Man Ray and Wittgenstein: The Skepticism of the MediumRaphaël Pirenne3 The Return of the PanoramaAlexander Streitberger4 Panoptic City: Topography and Photography of the Scrutinizing GazeSteven Jacobs5 The Visual Flow: Fixity and Transformation in Photo- and Videographic ImageryYvonne Spielmann6 From Perception to Projection: On the Future of Technical ImagesMarcel René Marburger7 Orozco, Heidegger and The Visibility of ThingsJoanna Lowry8 Intermediality, for the Sake of Radical Neutrality, in Peter Friedl's Work 149Hilde Van GelderNotes on the AuthorsColor Section
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Leuven University Press Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on Belgian Surrealism and the photographic practices of Marcel Mariën. Marcel Mariën (1920–1993) was a key figure of Belgian post-war Surrealism. He is widely acknowledged for his landmark work on Belgian Surrealism and his collaboration with future Situationists like Guy-Ernest Debord in his journal ‘Les Lèvres nues’. Nevertheless, Mariën’s texts, collages, photographs, film, and (art?) objects have to date remained understudied. This is the first volume devoted to Mariën's photographic work. Through a series of close readings, Mieke Bleyen connects the collage and photographic practices of Mariën with his wider oeuvre, particularly with his archival and editorial activities. By applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the ‘minor’, this book proposes an alternative reading of Mariën’s anti-aesthetics and focuses on the affective range of his work. The figure of Mariën also serves as a case study that offers new perspectives on Belgian Surrealism's relation to mainstream Surrealism and the role of photography within Surrealism. This volume, moreover, raises a critique on ‘major’ art history's conception of time as linear progression and argues instead for twisted and extended temporalities in the case of Marcel Mariën. With previously unpublished images from Mariën's private archive. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Trade ReviewKU Leuven-;based scholar Mieke Bleyen succeeds in integrating several important achievements in 'Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën'. Within the first study dedicated to the photographic practice of a prolific Belgian Surrealist (1920-;1993), she raises a number of pertinent questions, such as the importance of queer studies and feminist criticism for a better understanding of Surrealist visual arts.Additionally, as the title suggests, Bleyen develops a strong theoretical argument through the notion of minor literature, grounded in the writings of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, to unpack different pressing issues in the scholarship concerned with art history, including its problematic insistence on interpretation and linear progression. Bleyen combines rigorous archival research with a solid critical enquiry to put forward a rich and referential volume that can be engaged with as a valuable source of information and otherwise inaccessible visual material, as well as a welcome instance of a more inclusive approach to the work that is not easily fitted in the existing art historical categories. Jelena Stojkovic (2015): Minor aesthetics: the photographic work of Marcel Mariën, Visual Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2015.1024519'There’s a tiny handful of things on Mariën in English. Mieke Bleyen’s 'Minor Aesthetics: The Photographic Work of Marcel Mariën' is particularly helpful. She reads him in a Deleuzian vein as a ‘minor’ artist, spilling out and past the coherent subjectivities of the poet or the artist.'McKenzie Wark, Public Seminar, January 27, 2016Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue Part 1 Towards a Minor Photography Minor Literature Deterritorialization Politicization Collectivization The people to come A canon of minor masters and other reflections on the minor Deleuze and Guattari’s Cartography of Art A Minor History of Art? Minor Photography. First Reflections Part 2 Les Lèvres nues. A Minor History of Surrealism A Post War View of Constantin Meunier’s The Docker Invisible monuments A surrealist displacement of monuments Surrealism and its political turn: deconstructing the representation of labor Les Lèvres nues. Continuing the Interwar Project of Paul Nougé Writing as act Poetry as experiment Let us create disturbing objects Between affect and effect: looking for accomplices Re-writing: the fragmentary work of authorial effacement Angèle Laval: a model of minor writing? Les Lèvres nues. A Post War Enterprise Le pas du commandeur: second stanza Lettrist/Situationist texts in Les Lèvres nues Collaboration under the sign of Potlatch Leisure As Battlefield Mariën’s scenario for a global revolution Le Club des Loisirs From production to consumption: leisure as battlefield Surrealist versus situationist ‘tactics’ On (un)mediated activityPart 3 Rhizomatic Readings. Minor Ways Of BeginningDefense and Illustration of the French Language. A Rhizomatic Reading A destabilization of text and image relationships Subverting narrative Traveling the Mariën rhizome Collective assemblage of enunciation Surrealism in Crisis. Or How To Deal With the Apparatus of Capture Toutes ces dames au salon Les corrections naturelles: a critical dissection of a Surrealism in crisis Magritte and Mariën: a mutual betrayal Caught Between the Historical and the Neo-Avant-Gardes A ‘failed’ historical avant-garde versus an ‘empty’ neo-avant-garde Hal Foster’s new genealogies New genealogies, new geographies Mariën and Broodthaers: two ways of dealing with the art institution Mariën’s ambiguous relation with the art market and the art institution Queer Temporalities. The ‘Minor’ Position of Marcel Mariën Minor ways of beginning again Queer temporalities: queer belonging Queering the archive Part 4 Minor Photography. Minor AestheticsWoman Ajar. 100 Photographs of Naked Women Affecting photographies Situating Woman Ajar within feminist theory Surrealist photography 1: molar grids and molecular flows Surrealist photography 2: courtly love and sadism Always in the Middle. Photographic Stuttering and Stammering Art and porn Amateur and professional Private and public L’évidence énigmatique Traps Against Capture. Minor Aesthetics The rugged terrain of humor: humor as surface effect Minor Contexts of Display Private spaces of display Mediating between private house and gallery: photography and the printed page Epilogue Color Section Notes Part 1. Towards a Minor Photography Part 2. Les Lèvres nues. A Minor History of Surrealism Part 3. Rhizomatic Readings. Minor Ways of Beginning Part 4. Minor Photography. Minor Aesthetics Bibliography List of abbreviations References
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Sodertorn University Rethinking Time
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Sodertorn University Ambiguity of the Sacred: Phenomenology, Politics
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Nordisk sommeruniversitet NSU Press Sense & Senses in Aesthetics
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Nordisk sommeruniversitet NSU Press Actualities of Aura: Twelve Studies of Walter
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Double 9 Books What Is Art?
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Double 9 Books The Poetics Of Aristotle
Book SynopsisThe Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle, an ancient Greek philosopher, is a seminal work in the realm of literary theory and aesthetics. Written around 335 BCE, this treatise offers profound insights into the nature and principles of poetry and drama. Aristotle explores the concept of mimesis, asserting that art imitates life. He delves into the cathartic effect of tragedy, suggesting that it purges emotions like pity and fear from the audience. He dissects the essential elements of a compelling narrative, emphasizing plot structure with a well-defined beginning, middle, and end. Aristotle's discussion of character is central to The Poetics. He introduces the notion of a tragic flaw, or hamartia, which leads to a character's downfall. His analysis of language, diction, rhythm, and melody underscores their significance in poetic works. The Poetics is particularly renowned for its examination of tragedy. Aristotle outlines key elements, including peripeteia (a reversal of fortune) and anagnorisis (a moment of recognition), which are fundamental to tragic storytelling. This work's enduring impact on literature, theater, and aesthetics is undeniable. It has served as a foundational text for generations of writers, playwrights, and scholars, providing invaluable guidance in the craft of storytelling and dramatic performance.
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Amsterdam University Press Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film
Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan of the comedies of Adolphe Menjou, Mickey Mouse, and Charlie Chaplin. As an antidote to repressive civilization, he developed, through these figures, a theory of laughter. Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film is the first monograph to thoroughly analyse Benjamin’s film writings, contextualizing them within his oeuvre whilst also paying attention to the various films, actors, and directors that sparked his interest. The book situates all these writings within Benjamin’s ‘anthropological materialism’, a concept that analyses the transformations of the human sensorium through technology. Through the term ‘innervation’, Benjamin thought of film spectatorship as an empowering reception that, through a rush of energy, would form a collective body within the audience, interpenetrating a liberated technology into the distracted spectators. Benjamin’s writings on Soviet film and German cinema, Charlie Chaplin, and Mickey Mouse are analysed in relation to this posthuman constellation that Benjamin had started to dream of in the early twenties, long before he began to theorize about films.Trade Review"Walter Benjamin kann zweifellos als einer der bedeutendsten Kunst- und Medientheoretiker des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet werden. Dennoch hat seine Beschäftigung mit dem Film überraschenderweise bislang nur wenig im Zentrum gestanden. Mourenzas Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film ist die erste eigenständige Monografie, die gänzlich Benjamins Auseinandersetzung mit dem Film gewidmet ist. [...] Mit der vorliegenden Monografie hat Mourenza jedenfalls eine beeindruckende Studie zu Benjamins Auseinandersetzung mit Film vorgelegt."- Daniel Gönitzer, [rezens.tfm] 2021/2 "Although firmly rooted in philosophical traditions, artistic practices, and media technologies of modernism and the classical avant-garde, Benjamin’s writings continue to resonate with some of our most pressing concerns today. For this reason, as Daniel Mourenza shows in his wide-ranging and thorough study, it makes good sense to revisit Benjamin’s writings on film aesthetics, production, and audience reception."- Rolf J. Goebel, University of Alabama in Huntsville, German Studies Review, Volume 44, Number 1, February 2021 "Mourenza’s theoretical elaborations are very strong and his emphasis on an embodied spectator in Benjamin’s writings is especially productive. He manages to develop a coherent theory of his aesthetics of film with implications far beyond the area of film studies and valuable insights for an emancipatory political transformation of society and the role technology is able to play in such a transformation."- Hanno Berger, The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Fall 2020 "Through detailed historical and textual analysis of primary and secondary resources, Mourenza essentially tackles the question of Benjamin’s relationship with film as a medium [...] Mourenza’s book offers valuable new clarifications concerning Benjamin’s view of cinema as a training ground for new political sensibilities and subjective experiences of being-together with a social collective."- Will Kitchen, Early Popular Visual Culture, Summer 2020Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film Chapter 2. Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation Chapter 3. Film and the Aesthetics of German Fascism Chapter 4. Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity Chapter 5. Mickey Mouse: Utopian and Barbarian Conclusion: Benjamin's Belated Aktualität Bibliography Index
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Amsterdam University Press Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art:
Book SynopsisAs the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium - and their critique of what it is and has been? In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema, leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, so interrogating the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. This book takes film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposes it with artworks that render cinema as a material object. In the process, it unfolds a complex relationship between a theory and a practice that have commonly been seen as virtually incompatible, renewing our understanding of each and, more to the point, their interactions.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword: Courtesy of the Artists, by Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder Introduction: On Cinema Expanding, by Jill Murphy and Laura Rascaroli Part One: Materialities 1. Cinema as (In)Visible Object: Looking, Making, and Remaking, by Matilde Nardelli 2. Objects in Time: Artefacts in Artists' Moving Image, by Alison Butler 3. Materializing the Body of the Actor: Labour, Memory, and Storage, by Maeve Connolly 4. How to Spell 'Film': Gibson + Recoder's Alphabet of Projection, by Volker Pantenburg Part Two: Immaterialities 5. The Magic of Shadows: Distancing and Exposure in William Kentridge's More Sweetly Play the Dance, by Jill Murphy 6. Douglas Gordon and the Gallery of the Mind, by Sarah Cooper 7. A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance: Tacita Dean's Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers), by Kirstie North Part Three: Temporalities 8. The Photo-Filmic Diorama, by Agnes Petho 9. The Cinematic Dispositif and its Ghost: Sugimoto's Theaters, by Stefano Baschiera 10. Time/Frame: On Cinematic Duration, by Laura Rascaroli Part Four: The Futures of the Image 11. Interactivity without Control: David OReilly's Everything (2017) and the Representation of Totality, by Andrew V. Uroskie 12. Post-Cinematic Unframing, by Lisa Åkervall 13. Absolute Immanence, by D. N. Rodowick Index
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Amsterdam University Press Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and
Book SynopsisThe hegemonic meaning of depression as a universal mental illness embodied by an individualized subject is propped up by psychiatry’s clinical gaze. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism turns to the work of contemporary filmmakers who express a shared concern for mental health under global capitalism to explore how else depression can be perceived. In taking their critical visions as intercessors for thought, Adam Szymanski proposes a thoroughly relational understanding of depression attentive to eventful, collective and contingent qualities of subjectivity. What emerges is a melancholy aesthetics attuned to the existential contours and political stakes of health. Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism adventurously builds affinities across the lines of national, linguistic and cultural difference. The films of Angela Schanelec, Kelly Reichardt, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Kanakan Balintagos are grouped together for the first time, constituting a polystylistic common front of artist-physicians who live, work, and create on the belief that life can be more liveable.Trade Review"Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism is a strikingly original and unusually insightful work that breaks very new ground for film and media philosophy. It should be-will be-recognized as a pioneering work of therapeutic activism, which no one in film studies has considered. I know of nothing like it." - Brian Price, Professor of Cinema Studies, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Perceiving the Pandemic Chapter One: The Psychosocial Image Chapter Two: The Neuroplastic Paradox Chapter Three: Belief and the Common World of Experience Chapter Four: Ecosophy and Peace Chapter Five: Healing and Decolonization Conclusion: For Therapeutic Activisms Bibliography Filmography Index
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Amsterdam University Press Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West
Book SynopsisLeading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring aesthetic interest and experience in our daily lives at home, in workplaces, using everyday things, in our built and natural environments, and in our relationships and communities. A wide range of views and examples of everyday aesthetics are presented from western philosophical paradigms, from Confucian and Daoist aesthetics, and from the Japanese tradition. All indicate universal features of human aesthetic lives together with their cultural variations. Comparative Everyday Aesthetics is a significant contribution to a key trend in international aesthetics for thinking beyond narrow art-centered conceptions of the aesthetic. It generates global discussions about good, aesthetic, everyday living in all its various aspects. It also promotes aesthetic education for personal, social, and environmental development and presents opportunities for global collaborative projects in philosophical aesthetics.Table of ContentsForeword: Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice —Yuriko Saito Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction —Jeffrey Petts and Eva K W Man Part 1: Living Aesthetically Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully —Robin R Wang Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi —Thomas Leddy Divergence and Rejoining: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Ouyang Xiao Part 2: Nature and Environment The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West —Gao Jianping Cryosphere Aesthetics —Emily Brady Section 3: Eating and Drinking Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste —Carolyn Korsmeyer Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating —Richard Shusterman Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations —Yanping Gao Part 4: Creative Life Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony —Tanehisa Otabe Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Jeffrey Petts Part 5: Technology and Images Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets —Janet McCracken Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics —Peng Feng Images and Reality —John Carvalho Part 6: Relationships and Communities Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy —Katherine Higgins Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women —Eva Kit Wah Man AUTHORS’ BIO
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Amsterdam University Press Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the
Book SynopsisPoetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori anthropology of the gift and Sufi philosophy of the image, to conceive film as abundant gift. Elaborating on how this gift may be received, this book imagines film as our indispensable mentor - a wild mentor who teaches us how to think with moving images by learning to perceive evanescent forms that simply appear and disappear.Trade Review"Laleen Jayamanne’s beautiful new book, Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift, enlivens the spirits of its readers every bit as much as the movies it discusses enliven both the spirits and the bodies of their viewers. The book’s scholarship is careful and rigorous, but also thoughtfully evocative, as it discusses a number of anomalously brilliant cinematic works."- Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University, Senses of Cinema, Issue 99, July 2021 "Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift is itself an intellectual gift to cinephiles and film scholars. It will make an important contribution to the study of film aesthetics, and feminist film theory. I know of no other book quite like it."- Kara Keeling, The University of Chicago "This clearly is a book of passion written after years of teaching and writing about film. The entire book can be seen as an 'ode to Cinematography' written from an imaginal place. And since the spirit of the gift contains reciprocity, this book also offers something back by demonstrating what careful attention can make visible by writing about film."- Patricia Pisters, The University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsForeword: In Memory of Thomas Elsaesser Introduction: Spirit of the Gift-Cinematic Reciprocity Ch 1. A Gift Economy: GW Pabst's Pandora's Box (1929) Ch 2. Fabric of Thought: Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegrantes (1968), Ashik Kerib (1988) Ch 3. Nicole Kidman in Blue Light: Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Ch 4. Ornamentation and Pathology: Raul Ruiz' Klimt (2006) Afterword: Poetics of Film Pedagogy Bibliography Filmography Index
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Amsterdam University Press Hands on Film: Actants, Aesthetics, Affects
Book SynopsisHands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and on-screen uses of the human limb, spanning the history of the cinema from its birth to contemporary times. It examines how filmmakers have framed the hand for a variety of effects, from stylistic to thematic, and for the development of characterisation and narrative. The book offers insights into how films have created meaning by focusing on that part of the anatomy and, in turn, proposes a variety of ways in which its on-screen appearances might shed light on what it means to be sentient, cultured, and creative beings in the world.Table of ContentsList of Images Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Themes – The Framed Hand and Being Natural and Supernatural Phenomena: Matter Becoming Consciousness The Nature and Origin of Creativity Determinism and Free Will: Possession, Self-possession, Dispossession Modernism: Industrialisation and Technology Gendered Hands 2. Symbolism – The Semiotic Hand The Meaningful Hand and Metonymy The Manual as Metaphorical Between Metaphor and Metonym: The Hand and Memory 3. Aesthetics – The Stylised Hand: Beauty, Ugliness, Genre Behind the Scenes: Unseen Creative Hands The Stylised Hand on Screen The Camp Hand and the Hand in Camp The Haptic Experience: Screened Sensations 4. Narration – Hands Doing and Being Hands as Narrative Actants Slow Hands and Slow Cinema Acting Hands and Set Pieces 5. Characterisation – Hands and Identity Cultural Contexts for Creative and Destructive Personalities The Psychopathic Hand Vocational Hands Characters and Labour Manual Details: Emotions and Eccentricities Concealing and Revealing Characters Concluding Case Study – Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) Filmography Index
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd On The Meta-category Of Chinese Music Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis book opens with the emergence and development of the discipline of aesthetics in western countries, specifically the history of Western Music Aesthetics, to study and delve into the development of Chinese Music Aesthetics. The book provides a clear timeline throughout the writing — from the history of Chinese Music Aesthetics, to the construction of a theoretical framework, and the intersections and conversations between Western and Chinese Music Aesthetics. This academic piece is fundamentally consistent with the developing field of Chinese philosophical and literary research.This book also discusses important music aesthetic categories of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and metaphysics, and uses critical thinking to analyse the relationship between these categories and relevant schools of thought, reflecting the author's academic vision and thought process.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cultural Dance in Australia: Essays on
Book SynopsisThis book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Dance in Diaspora.- Chapter 3. The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon.- Chapter 4. Motifs of Migration: Reproducing Dance in a New Environment.- Chapter 5. In the Spotlight: Public Performances of Cultural Dance in Australia.- Chapter 6. The Shell Folkloric Festival: The Most Prominent Multicultural Event.- Chapter 7. Riverdance and the dissolution of cultural boundaries in Australian Irish Dancing .- Chapter 8. The Ivory Tower and its Fixed Pointe of Reference.- Chapter 9. Borders, Boundaries and Difference.- Chapter 10. The White Pages: Australian Dance Writings.- Chapter 11. The Need for an Archive of Cultural Dance.- Chapter 12. Steps Towards the Future.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Study On Chinese Traditional Theory Of Artistic
Book SynopsisThe book features an in-depth analysis of pre-modern Chinese discourses on artistic style especially the concept of Vitality-Charm (氣韻). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines Vitality-Charm and related topics from the perspectives of aesthetics, stylistics, semiotics, cosmology, art history, and socio-cultural history. It reviews the development of, and examines the relations between, the concepts of poetic vision, spiritual resonance, spiritual expressiveness, Vitality-Charm and so on in the tradition of Chinese art (including literature, music, dancing, and drama). The book also attempts to clarify confusions caused by the overlapping and indistinct demarcations between the concepts when they are used in the discourse of, and even the training of art — especially traditional Chinese art.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Mathematics, Poetry And Beauty
Book SynopsisWhat does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: Beauty. “Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare,” says the title of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.A winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2015, “Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty” tries to solve the secret of the similarity between the two domains. It tries to explain how a mathematical argument and a poem can move us in the same way. Mathematical and poetic techniques are compared, with the aim of showing how they evoke the same sense of beauty.The reader may find that, as Bertrand Russell said, “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty hold and austere, like that of sculpture … sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”Table of ContentsThe Magic of Poetry and of Mathematics; Condensation; Order; How Mathematicians and Poets Think; Poetic Image; Mathematical Image; Paradoxes and Oxymorons; Self Reference and Godel's Theorem;
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Mathematics, Poetry And Beauty
Book SynopsisWhat does mathematics have to do with poetry? Seemingly, nothing. Mathematics deals with abstractions while poetry with emotions. And yet, the two share something essential: Beauty. “Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare,” says the title of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.A winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2015, “Mathematics, Poetry and Beauty” tries to solve the secret of the similarity between the two domains. It tries to explain how a mathematical argument and a poem can move us in the same way. Mathematical and poetic techniques are compared, with the aim of showing how they evoke the same sense of beauty.The reader may find that, as Bertrand Russell said, “Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty hold and austere, like that of sculpture … sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.”Table of ContentsThe Magic of Poetry and of Mathematics; Condensation; Order; How Mathematicians and Poets Think; Poetic Image; Mathematical Image; Paradoxes and Oxymorons; Self Reference and Godel's Theorem;
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