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Penguin Random House LLC The Optical Unconscious
£56.30
MIT Press Minor Histories
£40.30
Penguin Random House LLC Chronophobia
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Penguin Random House LLC Experimental Sound and Radio
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Pennsylvania State University Press Black and Gold
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ABC-CLIO Images of Older People in Western Art and Society
Table of ContentsPreface Art and Older People: An Introduction The Ages of Life Symbolic Images of Older People Images of Older People and the Family Older People and Sexual Images Images of Older People and Death Conclusion References Index
£70.00
Yale University Press Art and Psyche
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Yale University Press Flesh and the Ideal
Book SynopsisA biography of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 18th-century German philosopher and aesthetician. Analyzing Winckelmann's magnum opus, "History of the Art of Antiquity", it explains the fundamental importance to art history of this account of the aesthetic and imaginative Greek ideal in art.
£34.89
Hachette Books The Tradition Of The New
Book SynopsisHarold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term Action Painters to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists such as Pollock, Kline, and de Kooning. Rosenberg''s seminal writings on this movement, as well as on other artists such as Newman and Rothko, appear in The Tradition of the New (1959), his first and most influential book its effects on subsequent art criticism, and the practice of art itself, are still felt today. The essays in this book are not limited to the art world, however: He also discusses poetry, political and cultural theory, and popular culture. As wide-ranging, independent, and deeply probing as the essays of Walter Benjamin, Harold Rosenberg''s The Tradition of the New is a true classic of twentieth-century criticism.Table of Contents* The Tradition of the New American Painting Today * Parable of American Painting * The American Action Painters * Extremist Art: Community Criticism * Virtual Revolution * Everyman a Professional The Profession of Poetry * French Silence and American Poetry * The Profession of Poetry and M. Maritain * Oh This is the Creature that Does Not Exist * The Comedy of the Divine The War of Phantoms * Character Change and the Drama * The Resurrected Romans * The Heroes of Marxist Science * Politics as Dancing * The Fall of Paris * Couch Liberalism and the Guilty Past
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SCM Press Art Modernity and Faith
Book SynopsisLeads the reader through a more or less historical narrative of the relationship between Christianity and the visual arts beginning with the deep-rooted fear of images in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Shows how significant for religion art can be.
£25.98
W. W. Norton & Company Arts and the Man A Short Introduction to Aesthetics
Book SynopsisArts and the Man is a revised and enlarged edition of the author's book published in 1928 under the title The World, the Arts and the Artist.Trade Review"If the essay can be called an art form, Arts and the Man is certainly in a healthy state, for it fuses effectively the instrumental and the beautiful. It is a useful instrument, an introduction to art and philosophy that sends the reader to art itself, and it is written with a quiet lucidity and sincere love of beauty that give it the repose and balance and some of the perspective and refreshing quality of art itself." -- Mildred Boie - Forum
£17.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Psyche and the Arts
Book SynopsisDoes art connect the individual psyche to history and culture?Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form. Divided into three sections - Getting into Art, Challenging the Critical Space and Interpreting Art in the World - the text shows how Jungian ideas can work with the arts to illuminate both psychological theory and aesthetic response. Psyche and the Arts offers new critical visions of literature, film, music, architecture and painting, as something alive in the experience of creators and audiences challenging previous Jungian criticism. This approach demonstrates Jung's own belief that art is a healing response to collective cultural norms.This diverse yet focused collection from international contributors invites the reader to Trade Review"This book contains a number of remarkable essays, including the introduction by editor Susan Rowland. These essays make important use of Jung's psychology in their exploration of the psychic interiority of art as well as offering a 'renewed and numious space for the making, appreciation and criticism of art in our time'... I believe the essays in this book have much to contribute to the interface between Jungian concepts and the practice, appreciation and assessment of the creative arts."- Mary Dougherty, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2009Table of ContentsRowland, Introduction. Cusick, Psyche and the Artist: Jung and the Poet. Part I: Getting into Art: Jungian (Immanent) Criticism. Dawson, The Discovery of the Personal Unconscious: Robinson Crusoe and Modern Identity. Huskinson, Archetypal Dwelling, Building Individuation. Parker, On Painting, Substance and Psyche. Martinez, Haruki Murakami's Reimagining of Sophocles' Oedipus'. Reiber, Psyche, Imagination and Art. Stephenson, How Myrtle Gordon Addresses Her Suffering: Jung’s Concept of Possession and John Cassavetes’s Opening Night. Vasileva, The Father, the Dark Child and the Mob that Kills Him: Tim Burton’s Representation of the Creative Artist. Part II: Challenging the Critical Space. Fredericksen, Stripping Bare the Images. Bishop, Psyche and Imagination in Goethe and Jung. Almèn, Jung’s Function-attitudes in Music Composition and Discourse. Connolly, Jung in the Twilight Zone: The Psychological Functions of the Horror Film. Gardner, Writing About Nothing. Part III: Making/Interpreting Art in the World. Giosa, The Poetical Word: Towards an Imaginal Language. Robbins, Healing with the Alchemical Imagination in the Undergraduate Classroom. Paixao Anastacio de Paula, The Serenity of the Senex: Using Brazilian Folk Tales as an Alternative Approach to ‘Entrepreneurship’ in University Education.
£148.36
iUniverse Theoretical Art Movements
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iUniverse The Elements of Creative and Expressive Artistry A Philosophy for Creating Everything Artistic
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Paulist Press International,U.S. Theology and the Arts Encountering God through Music Art and Rhetoric
Book SynopsisExplores, in a timely and engaging manner, several aspects of the relations between theology and aesthetics, in both the pastoral and academic realms. The underlying motif of this work is that beauty is a means of divine revelation, and that art is the human mediation that both enables and limits its revelatory power.
£16.14
Random House USA Inc Color
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Wayne State University Press Marxism and Art Essays Classic and Contemporary
£28.45
Wayne State University Press Times Visible Surface Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in FindeSiecle Vienna Kritik German Library Theory Cultural Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Book SynopsisPresents Riegl's work as an examination of the categories of temporality and history in art. Supported by exploration of Riegl's writings, this work argues that Riegl viewed artworks as registering historical time visibly in artistic forms. It also demonstrates that Riegl is a pivotal figure in cultural theory.Trade ReviewTime's Visible Surface distinguishes itself from other books on Riegl by its strong theoretical awareness (especially the connection to Walter Benjamin), by its central emphasis on the theme of time, and by its careful reconstruction of Riegl's Austrian intellectual context, Gubser emphasizes the larger philosophical context and significance of Riegl's thought beyond the narrow disciplinary concerns of art historians, and he combines close textual analysis of Riegl's works with a thoughtful contextualization of Riegl's ideas. Gubser's argument challenges the predominant scholarly view that Austrian modernism was ahistorical or even antihistorical, and brings to light the extent of Riegl's influence on Benjamin. - David S. Luft, University of California, San Diego, author of Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer
£52.20
Wayne State University Press Aby Warburg and Antisemitism Political Perspectives on Images and Culture Kritik German Literary Theory Cultural Studies Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Book SynopsisLooks at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. This work argues, based on archival research, that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship.
£51.30
University of Hawai'i Press Modern Japanese Aesthetics A Reader
Book SynopsisThis work concerns the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present. It discusses the momentous efforts made by Japanese thinkers to master, assimilate and transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own literary and artistic heritage.
£18.66
University of Hawai'i Press Modern Japanese Aesthetics A Reader
Book SynopsisAn examination of the history of the Japanese philosophy of art. The text explores the historical background and discusses aesthetic issues, while assessing the efforts made by Japanese thinkers to assimilate and transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own artistic heritage.
£81.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) In the Blink of an Ear Toward a Noncochlear Sonic Art
Book SynopsisTraces the interactions and mutual influences of art and music. This book presents a narrative of late-Modern/Postmodern artistic practice, connecting familiar events, figures and works to less-familiar precedents and antecedents from within their own fields and from across the aisle.Trade Review"...some useful arguments. And sound art certainly need arguments." The Wire, February 2010"Kim-Cohen's book develops a number of significant arguments concerning sound's status in the art world."SpringerinReviewed in Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of Contentsi. Introduction; ii. Noise and Its Opposite; iii. Sectarianism in the Sensorium; iv. Settling the Score; v. The Technological Ontological; vi. Rock and Roll Aesthetics; vii. The Blink of an Ear; viii. Postscript: A Tentative Definition of Sound Art.
£31.42
Imagework Publishing Creativity a Handbook for Visual Artists
£14.58
Aesthetics and Protest Press Making Room Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces
£19.88
Kaylea J. Mangrum How to Draw StepByStep Using the Alphabet
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