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On the Appearance of the World: A Future for Aesthetics in Architecture by Mark Foster Gage 9781517917289
RRP: $17.55$15.13How can architecture develop better aesthetic directions for the twenty-first-century built environment? Our world, increasingly defined by efficient but unconsidered architecture and cities, seems to be getting uglier. In On the Appearance of the World,... -
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
RRP: $19.48$12.95'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' Simon Schama ... -
Aesthetics and Subjectivity by Andrew Bowie 9780719057380
RRP: $48.75$42.08New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and... -
The Emancipated Spectator by Jacques Ranciere 9781844677610
RRP: $19.48$16.40The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance... -
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
RRP: $44.85$28.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679735793Author Camille PagliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care by Scott Ferguson
RRP: $42.88$36.64Declarations of Dependence rethinks the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to make critical theory newly answerable to politics. Scott Ferguson regrounds critical theory in the alternative conception of money articulated by... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: $17.53$12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Tragic Beauty in Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics by Steve Odin 9781498514798
RRP: $87.75$80.34The present volume endeavors to make a contribution to contemporary Whitehead studies by clarifying his axiological process metaphysics, including his theory of values, concept of aesthetic experience, and doctrine of beauty, along with his philosophy of... -
The Ground of the Image by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $68.25$58.81If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and... -
The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin 9781804290460
RRP: $25.33$16.54The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar... -
The Intellectual and His People: Staging the People Volume 2 by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $23.38$15.33A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and... -
A Philosophy of Beauty: Shaftesbury on Nature, Virtue, and Art by Michael Gill
RRP: $68.25$53.06An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in... -
Sound arts now by Cathy Lane Angus Carlyle
RRP: $27.30$26.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010266Author Cathy Lane Angus CarlyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: $33.13$21.76Have 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 handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: $33.13$28.49Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our... -
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition by Lawrence Weschler 9780520256095
RRP: $54.60$42.43When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color... -
Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520242265
RRP: $48.75$37.40For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of "The Dynamics of Architectural Form", "Film as Art", "Toward a Psychology of Art", and... -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $39.00$30.30Philosophy 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 writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing... -
Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus by Anjan Chatterjee
RRP: $67.26$59.81Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born. In Brain, Beauty, and... -
Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520243835
RRP: $54.60$42.43Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In... -
Sonic Possible Worlds, Revised Edition: Hearing the Continuum of Sound by Dr Salomé Voegelin
RRP: $48.73$42.47From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salome Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated... -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: $15.58$11.29'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and... -
Christopher Nolan: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Robbie B. H. Goh
RRP: $42.88$37.60Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility... -
White: Insights into Japanese Design Philosophy by Kenya Hara 9783037781838
RRP: $42.90$30.46The latest publication by designer Kenya Hara following his acclaimed Designing Design. White is not a book about color. It is rather the author's attempt to explore the essence of "white," which he sees as being closely related to the origin of... -
The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics by Richard Norman
RRP: $81.88$74.84The Moral Philosophers adopts a historical approach to moral philosophy, taking in chronological sequence some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. Richard Norman introduces the thought of each figure as a coherent and comprehensive ethical... -
Art and Objects by Graham Harman 9781509512683
RRP: $35.08$31.28In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in... -
Symmetry by Hermann Weyl
RRP: $29.23$22.72Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of... -
What Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: $23.38$19.79A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: $53.63$46.10Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.About the... -
Blue: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691181363
RRP: $68.25$55.01A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it... -
Modern Originals: At Home with MidCentury European Designers by Leslie Williamson
RRP: $78.00$57.31This gorgeously photographed volume features the under-published private spaces of both the icons and unknown vanguards of European mid-century architecture and design. In keeping with the functional beauty of mid-century design, Handcrafted Modern:... -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present by Louise Wallenberg 9781350198524
RRP: $50.68$43.29How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often discussed in the context of abstract phenomena such as... -
Value: What Money Can't Buy by Stephen Bayley
RRP: $37.03$26.54Since 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 lost our ability to truly savour each unique experience... -
Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting by Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781804291283
RRP: $33.13$22.37One of Europe's most mythologized Marxist intellectuals of the 20th century, Pier Paolo Pasolini was not only a poet, filmmaker, novelist, and political martyr. He was also a keen critic of painting. An intermittently practicing artist in his own right,... -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: $31.18$28.84An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: $17.53$13.79Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic... -
Pencil by Carol Beggy 9781501392245
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it,... -
Bosses by Ghislaine Leung 9781916425002
RRP: $23.38$15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425002Author Ghislaine LeungFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint Divided PublishingPublisher Divided Publishing -
John Berger's Ways of Seeing by Emmanouil Kalkannis
RRP: $12.68$11.91Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. It is comprised of seven different essays, three of which are pictorial and the other containing texts and images. Berger first examines the relationship between... -
The Future of the Image by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $23.38$15.33In 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 that there is a stark political choice in art: it can...