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  • Collected Poems and Prose

    de Whitney Davis ...
    This book contains a collection of my poetry and prose written over the last eight years. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Gift Within

    de Whitney Davis ...
    Everyone has a gift. Sometimes, it just takes courage to let it shine.At Broadway Elementary, Leah, Justin, and Elaina each have a special talent: singing, drumming, and writing. But they keep their gifts hidden, afraid of what others might say. Everything changes when they witness a bold performance during the school talent show auditions. Inspired by the confidence they see, the three friends ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Visuality and Virtuality

    Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective

    de Whitney Davis ...
    A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of imagesThis book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and ... Leer más

    $51.89 USD

  • A General Theory of Visual Culture

    de Whitney Davis ...
    What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory of Visual Culture argues that, in a fully consolidated visual culture, artifacts and pictures have ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Queer Beauty

    Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

    de Whitney Davis ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History

    de Whitney Davis ...
    Find original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the role of homosexuality in artistic creation has often not survived, in part because the direct expression of homosexuality has often been condemned in Western societies. Gay and Lesbian Studies in Art History presents examples of contemporary art historical research on ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • Kant and the Platypus

    Essays on Language and Cognition

    de Umberto Eco ...
    How do we know a cat is a cat . . . and why do we call it a cat? An "intriguing and often fascinating" look at words, perceptions, and the relationship between them ( Newark Star-Ledger).In Kant and the Platypus, the renowned semiotician, philosopher, and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum explores the question of how much of our perception of things is based on ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

    de Paul Crowther ...
    Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gives unique aesthetic ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Visuality for Architects

    Architectural Creativity and Modern Theories of Perception and Imagination

    de Branko Mitrovic ...
    What is more important in architectural works—their form, shape, and color, or the meanings and symbolism that can be associated with them? Can aesthetic judgments of architecture be independent of the stories one can tell about buildings? Do non-architects perceive buildings in the same way as do architects?For the greater part of the twentieth century it was common to respond to these and ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing

    Slow Food for the Architect's Imagination

    de Marco Frascari ...
    This book deals with the critical nature and crucial role of architectural drawings. A manual which is essentially not a manual; it is an elucidation of an elegant manner for practising architecture.Organized around eleven exercises, the book does not emphasize speed, nor incorporate many timesaving tricks typical of drawing books, but rather proposes a slow, meditative process for construing ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics

    de Christopher Hight ...
    A theoretical history of anthropomorphism and proportion in modern architecture, this volume brings into focus the discourse around proportion with current problems of post-humanism in architecture alongside the new possibilities made available through digital technologies.The book examines how the body and its ordering has served as a central site of architectural discourse in recent decades, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Meanings of Abstract Art

    Between Nature and Theory

    Edición de Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature (taking nature in the broadest sense—the world of recognisable objects, creatures, organisms, processes, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD