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The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520261266
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $60.00Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary... -
Dark Matters - A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City Nick Dunn 9781782797487
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of... -
Hotel by Joanna Walsh
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel... -
Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic by Theodor Adorno 9780816611874
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816611874Author Theodor AdornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231181624
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $60.71Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the... -
Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement by Gaston Bachelard 9780911005134
Booksplease Price: $52.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911005134Author Gaston BachelardFormat PaperbackImprint -
Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $64.69The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life,... -
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Keller Easterling
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers... -
Spacecraft by Timothy Morton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination,... -
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion by Joseph Campbell
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681105Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $33.08Have 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... -
The Pleasure in Drawing by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $42.86Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form-of form in its... -
Blackface by Professor Ayanna Thompson
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the... -
The Future of the Image by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25In The Future of the Image, Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. He argues... -
The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.09Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art... -
Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts by Leonard Koren 9780981484655
RRP: $47.48Booksplease Price: $30.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981484655Author Leonard KorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art by Jill Bennett 9780804751711
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $38.98This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia. It focuses on... -
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton 9780199928088
RRP: $85.66Booksplease Price: $70.57A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's... -
Milk: Through a Glass Darkly by Peter Blegvad 9781910010365
Booksplease Price: $23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010365Author Peter BlegvadFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond by Boris Groys
Booksplease Price: $35.56From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and... -
A Significant Life: Human Meaning in a Silent Universe by Todd May
RRP: $38.08Booksplease Price: $36.10What makes for a good life, or a beautiful one, or, perhaps most important, a meaningful one? Throughout history most of us have looked to our faith, our relationships, or our deeds for the answer... -
The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World by Jeff Malpas
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $39.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474485272Author Jeff MalpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Carnal Knowledge: Towards a 'New Materialism' Through The Arts by Barbara Bolt 9781780762661
Booksplease Price: $65.64Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived of as reality and... -
Theory Of The Avant-Garde by Peter Burger 9780816610686
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816610686Author Peter BurgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint < -
Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career "One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and... -
Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction by Gary Rogowski 9781610353144
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610353144Author Gary RogowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint -
Flare Out: Aesthetics 1966-2016 by Peter Gidal 9780992837716
RRP: $42.84Booksplease Price: $38.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992837716Author Peter GidalFormat HardbackImprint -
Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy Ian Burrows 9781789041613
Booksplease Price: $33.20Drawing on plays by Shakespeare, Sarah Kane, Sophocles, Samuel Beckett, and others, this book examines the ways in which these dramatists manipulated the actor's body to demand laughter and/or... -
Value: What Money Can't Buy: A Handbook for Practical Hedonism Stephen Bayley 9781472134905
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time our world has grown increasingly busy, and we've... -
But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory by Cynthia A. Freeland
RRP: $34.49Booksplease Price: $29.30In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and... -
The Philosophy of Design Glenn Parsons 9780745663890
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $38.53The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective... -
The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva 9780231157216
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $48.58Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying... -
Summers of Discontent by Raymond Tallis 9781908524409
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14Since the time of the Ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered on the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings... -
Hyphen by Dr. Pardis Mahdavi
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the... -
On the New by Boris Groys 9781781682920
Booksplease Price: $33.89On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is... -
Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: $66.62Booksplease Price: $14.66Located in the West London suburb from which it takes its name, Ealing Studios is one of the best loved and best known institutions of British cinema. Ealing represents a particular kind of... -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.02Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the... -
In Search of Wagner by Theodor W. Adorno
Booksplease Price: $42.51Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent... -
The Birth Of Tragedy And The Case Of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780394703695
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394703695Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Impr -
Martial Aesthetics: How War Became an Art Form by Anders Engberg-Pedersen
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces...