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  • Naturally Hypernatural III: Hypernatural Landscapes in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Sabine Flach, Gary Sherman ...
    Series Book 5 - Art – Knowledge – Theory
    This third volume of Naturally Hypernatural explores contemporary concepts of landscape in the humanities and the arts in relation to the notion that our age is defined by a ‘geology of the human’ and that this reckoning constitutes a new epoch, aptly named the anthropocene.The thesis of this volume – that there is no homogeneous concept of landscape, just as there is no uniform definition of ... Read more

    $94.69 USD

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    Tales of a Committed Visitor

    Living and Learning as Spirit in Form

    by Gary Sherman ...
    Narrated by Braden Wright ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 12 min

    Gary Sherman invites you to journey with him as he explores being “a committed visitor,” a consciousness committed to human form while also retaining his non-physical nature. As a visitor, he accepts the experience of exploring the complex web of perception that defines and gives structure to being human and the unique learning this offers.This book explores the extraordinary yet underused ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • What Art Is

    by Arthur C. Danto ...
    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 memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Depicting Canada’s Children

    Edited by Loren Lerner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The ideals of the East - with special reference to the art of Japan

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    This treatise is a brief but very concise introduction to Asian art. Writing from a Japanese perspective and focusing on Japanese art, one of the most important themes is the relationship between spirituality, especially Buddhism, and the evolution of Asian art. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bad New Days

    Art, Criticism, Emergency

    by Hal Foster ...
    One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practiceBad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Portraits and Persons

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Portraits have for centuries been one of the most important art forms. But what do portraits tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait? In this book, leading art philosopher Cynthia Freeland addresses these questions and more. As she shows, portraits have served two fundamental functions throughout the ages. Firstly, they preserve identity, bringing us closer to loved ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Visual Studies

    A Skeptical Introduction

    by James Elkins ...
    In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where visual studies can become a more interesting place. Why look only at the same handful of theorists? Why ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Miracle of Analogy

    or The History of Photography, Part 1

    by Kaja Silverman ...
    The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy. This principle ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Artworks

    Meaning, Definition, Value

    by Robert Stecker ...
    What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture

    by Falk Heinrich ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience’s agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and technology-driven media installations.After considering established theories of beauty, for example, Plato, Alison, Hume, Kant, Gadamer and Santayana through to McMahon and Sartwell, Heinrich argues that ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Story of Looking

    by Mark Cousins ...
    The acclaimed author and filmmaker's investigation into the human gaze through history, art and science, paints an illuminating portrait of our culture.Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and ... Read more

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