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En algunos casos la música fue compuesta expresamente para recordar a individuos, como en el caso de la Música para los funerales de la reina Mary de Purcell. O puede ser parte de un servicio litúrg……続きを見る

The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After t……続きを見る

Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work……続きを見る

In Art to Come Terry Smithーwho is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary artーtraces the emergence of contemporary art and further develops his con……続きを見る

Walter Pater, the English critic, essayist and humanist is noted for the advocacy of “art for art’s sake”, which became a cardinal doctrine of Aestheticism. Pater’s seminal work on the Renaissance w……続きを見る

Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts, ……続きを見る

The purpose of this study is to determine Aristotle's attitude toward the content and method of Plato's natural science. Plato and Aristotle have often been regarded as on opposite sides of a philos……続きを見る

This is a historically informed examination of architecture's perceived absence in surrealist thought, surrealist tendencies in the theories and projects of modern architecture, and the place of sur……続きを見る

Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, recipro……続きを見る

This study examines the waves of graffiti that occur before, during, and after a conflictーimportant tools of political resistance that make protest visible and material. Graffiti makes for messy po……続きを見る

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibilityーthe expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through histor……続きを見る

Twenty-five art-related essays by distinguished British art critic and painter reveal his wide-ranging interests. Writings explore relationships between ancient and modern art and between art and li……続きを見る

Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founding fathers of modern formalist criticism. As a member of the Vienna School of Art Historians, he shared their range of interests in the decorative arts, ……続きを見る

In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. C……続きを見る

This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. ……続きを見る

Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthe……続きを見る

designing designing is one of the most extraordinary books on design ever written. First published in 1984 and reprinted with this title and cover in 1991, the book was the product of ten years of a……続きを見る

Since early 1989, a gem dealer I've known for years has been calling me every few weeks to brief me on mounting mayhem in Colombia's lucrative emerald market. The troubling gist of these calls is al……続きを見る

Pamela M. Lee’s New Games revisits postmodernism in light of art history's more recent embrace of "the contemporary." What can the theories and practices associated with postmodernism tell us about ……続きを見る

Die kurzweiligsten und angriffslustigsten Theaterkritiken Fontanes. Lachen entwaffne die Kritik, meint Fontane, unfreiwillig Komisches aber rufe den Theaterkritiker auf den Plan. Mit Fontane sitzen ……続きを見る

"La ricomposizione relazionale dell’amico Joe Montez dei materiali di Baumanns, nella sua analogia alla ricomposizione fotografica del movimento in Muyebrige, sposta verso l’interpretazione la ricos……続きを見る

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguishes between 'curating' and 'the curatorial……続きを見る

La Poética consta de un trabajo de definición y caracterización de la tragedia y otras artes imitativas. Junto a estas consideraciones aparecen otras, menos desarrolladas, acerca de la historia y su……続きを見る

A book that lays out the fundamental concepts of design culture and outlines a design-driven way to approach the world. Humans did not discover fireーthey designed it. Design is not defined by softw……続きを見る

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the ……続きを見る

This book brings a practitioner’s insight to bear on socially situated art practice through a first-hand glimpse into the development, organisation and delivery of art projects with social agendas. ……続きを見る

This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper arti……続きを見る

“If good design tells the truth,” writes Robert Grudin in this path-breaking book on esthetics and authority, “poor design  tells a lie,  a lie usually related . . . to the  getting or  abusing of p……続きを見る

International in scope, this volume brings together leading and emerging voices working at the intersection of contemporary art, visual culture, activism, and climate change, and addresses key quest……続きを見る

Take care of yourself. How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger will we be? More importantly how much stronger will our c……続きを見る