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  • Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

    Women, Memory, and Public Space

    by Valentina Rozas-Krause, Andrew M. Shanken, Carolina Aguilera, Manuela Badilla Rajevic, Daniel E. Coslett, Erika Doss, Tania Gutiérrez-Monroy, Daniel Herwitz, Katherine Hite0, Lauren Kroiz1, Ana Maria León2, Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral3, Pia Montealegre4, Sierra Rooney5, Daniela Sandler6, Kirk Savage7, Susan Slyomovics8, Marita Sturken9, Amanda Su0, Dell Upton1, Nathaniel Robert Walker2, Mechtild Widrich3 ...
    Series series Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
    Breaking the Bronze Ceiling uncovers a glaring omission in our global memorial landscape—the conspicuous absence of women. Exploring this neglected narrative, the book emerges as the foremost guide to women's memorialization across diverse cultures and ages. As global memorials come under intense examination, with metropolises vying for a more inclusive recognition of female contributions, this ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Looking Through Images

    A Phenomenology of Visual Media

    by Emmanuel Alloa, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Translated by Nils Schott ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Images 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 for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Looking Through Images

    A Phenomenology of Visual Media

    by Emmanuel Alloa, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Translated by Nils Schott ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Images 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 for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Political Power of Visual Art

    Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights

    by Daniel Herwitz ...
    Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations in contemporary art.Drawing on the work of William Kentridge, drenched in violence, race, and power, and the artworld immolations of Banksy, Herwitz's examples range from the NEA 4 and the question of ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Action, Art, History

    Engagements with Arthur C. Danto

    Edited by Daniel Herwitz, Michael Kelly ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Arthur C. Danto is unique among philosophers for the breadth of his philosophical mind, his eloquent writing style, and the generous spirit embodied in all his work. Any collection of essays on his philosophy has to engage him on all these levels, because this is how he has always engaged the world, as a philosopher and person.In this volume, renowned philosophers and art historians revisit Danto ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Star as Icon

    Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption

    by Daniel Herwitz ...
    Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly—the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she is also something more: a dazzling figure at the center of a media pantomime that is at once voyeuristic and zealously guarded. With skill and humor, Daniel Herwitz pokes at the gears of the celebrity ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Don Giovanni Moment

    Essays on the Legacy of an Opera

    Edited by Lydia Goehr, Daniel Herwitz ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism.The Don Giovanni Moment is the first book to examine the aesthetic and moral legacy of Mozart's opera in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Aesthetics, Arts, and Politics in a Global World

    by Daniel Herwitz ...
    A different set of purposes define culture today than those that preoccupied the world in the immediate decades of decolonization. Focusing on art and music in diverse parts of the world, Daniel Herwitz explores a world that has largely shifted from the earlier days of nationalism, decolonization and cultural exclusion, to one of global markets and networks.Using examples from India and Mexico to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Aesthetics

    Art in a Global World

    by Daniel Herwitz ...
    New arts created in the context of new social realities are impacting our traditional ideas about aesthetics. Art, art markets and aesthetics now interact in ways that demand new forms of thought and revision of old. Cosmopolitan Aesthetics presents the first thorough account of the challenges facing aesthetics today in the light of globalization, introducing the history that underpins them.This ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

    by Daniel Herwitz ...
    The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Serious Larks

    The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

    by Ted Cohen ...
    Ted Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked by most professional philosophers and aestheticians—but not by most people. Whether writing about the rules of baseball, of driving, or of Kant’s ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • The Philosophy of Art

    by Philip Alperson ...
    Series series Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
    Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this accessible and insightful introduction outlines the central theories and ongoing debates in the philosophy of art.Covers a wide range of topics, including the definition and interpretation of art, the connections between artistic and ethical judgment, and the expression and elicitation of emotions through artIncludes discussion of ... Read more

    $33.00 USD