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Studying Ealing Studios by Stephanie Muir
RRP: $44.83$40.40Located 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 institutional practice a community of filmmakers who collaborate... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can creak with character in a bohemian coffee shop and... -
Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking) by Cathy Porter 9780812695922
RRP: $25.33$25.19The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender... -
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation by James O. Young
RRP: $54.50$47.29The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. Explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among... -
The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth
RRP: $24.36$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795256Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
How to Wake Up: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide to Navigating Joy and Sorrow by Toni Bernhard 9781614290568
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614290568Author Toni BernhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Anywhere or Not at All: The Philosophy of Contemporary Art by Peter Osborne 9781781680940
RRP: $35.08$29.84Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA).Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis?... -
Being Nude: The Skin of Images by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $42.88$38.75What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity for thinking in a way that is stripped bare of all received meanings and... -
In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192869715
RRP: $101.40$91.77J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European philosophy. In this commentary, Stephen Mulhall extends his... -
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $21.43$14.14In this book Jacques Ranciere radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions,... -
Atmospheric Architectures by Professor Gernot Boehme 9781350141827
$59.75There is fast-growing awareness of the role atmospheres play in architecture. Of equal interest to contemporary architectural practice as it is to aesthetic theory, this 'atmospheric turn' owes much to the work of the German philosopher Gernot Boehme. ... -
In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: $31.18$26.73In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely things among other things. This meant an attack on the... -
The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art by Nick Wilson
RRP: $77.98$68.37The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson... -
Doll by Maria Teresa Hart
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our... -
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $25.33$16.54The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers. Composed of a series of scenes that defined modernism, Aisthesis takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the... -
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening by Salome Voegelin 9781501312168
RRP: $56.53$50.35The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The... -
The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems by Peter Cave 9781780747422
RRP: $23.38$16.95What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from the funny to the very serious indeed... -
Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City by Nick Dunn 9781782797487
RRP: $19.48$16.75Dark 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 nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of... -
Tree by Matthew Battles
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this living object's entanglement with humanity, from antiquity to the present. Trees tower... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai 9780674278745
RRP: $38.90$30.75Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year"Makes the case that the gimmick...is of tremendous critical value...Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag's best work."-Los Angeles Review of... -
Aesthetics of Care: Practice in Everyday Life by Yuriko Saito
RRP: $38.98$34.75Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship... -
Magazine by Prof Jeff Jarvis 9781501394959
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the... -
Yellow: The History of a Color by Michel Pastoureau 9780691198255
RRP: $68.25$56.10From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the presentIn this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau-a renowned authority on the history of color and the author of celebrated volumes on blue,... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: $46.78$38.04This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
The Art Question by Nigel Warburton 9780415174909
RRP: $44.83$39.31If an artist sends a live peacock to an exhibition, is it art? 'What is art?' is a question many of us want answered but are too afraid to ask. It is the very question that Nigel Warburton demystifies in this brilliant and accessible little book. With... -
The Sense of Beauty by George Santayana 9780486202389
RRP: $19.48$12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486202389Author George SantayanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Psychoanalytic Aesthetics by Nicky Glover 9781912567188
RRP: $50.68$47.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567188Author Nicky GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
Dust by Michael Marder
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. No matter how much you fight against it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking... -
Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture by John Storey 9780748640386
RRP: $54.58$49.74A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture... -
Color Theory: A Critical Introduction by Aaron Fine 9781350027305
RRP: $68.23$56.59Giving an overview of the history of color theory from ancient and classical cultures to contemporary contexts, this book explores important critical principles and provides practical guidance on the use of color in art and design. Going beyond a... -
Looking Through Images: A Phenomenology of Visual Media by Emmanuel Alloa
RRP: $58.50$44.50Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders... -
Ethics by Walead Beshty 9780854882359
RRP: $33.05$22.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854882359Author Walead BeshtyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Whitechapel GalleryPublisher Whitechapel GalleryWeight(grams) 550g -
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 9780231029292
RRP: $58.50$44.50What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual... -
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form by Sianne Ngai
RRP: $62.30$48.89A Literary Hub Favorite Book of the YearA New Statesman Book of the YearA provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism.Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found... -
Satires by Horace
RRP: $48.65$44.69Artful hexameters.Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65-8 BC) was born at Venusia, son of a freedman clerk who had him well educated at Rome and Athens. Horace supported the ill-fated killers of Caesar, lost his property, became a secretary in the... -
Hyphen by Dr. Pardis Mahdavi
RRP: $19.48$14.53Object 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 imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the... -
Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times by Allen James Fromherz 9780748644834
RRP: $46.78$38.04The first complete, scholarly English-language biography of Ibn Khaldun. Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history, inspiring at least as much interest among modern scholars as his immediate... -
The Situationists and the City: A Reader by Tom McDonough 9781844673643
RRP: $35.08$29.84The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendiary texts on politics and art, and were a galvanizing... -
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: $58.50$44.50Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual... -
Why Only Art Can Save Us: Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency by Santiago Zabala
RRP: $42.90$33.13The state of emergency, according to thinkers such as Carl Schmidt, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben, is at the heart of any theory of politics. But today the problem is not the crises that we do confront, which are often used by governments to...