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The examination of the transcendentals of truth, beauty and the good in this book stems from the perspective of Christian humanism, transcending ourselves in moral psychology, and perfecting ourselv……続きを見る

This companion to Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art & Design Education extends the research and the argumentation addressed in the monograph and provides (further) practical ……続きを見る

Cette étude pose les premiers jalons d’une esthétique de l’automobile au cinéma, en montrant que l’automobile est un motif cinématographique par excellence. Les développements théoriques sont nourri……続きを見る

This book offers a general historical overview of the Dada movement and presents the individual destinies of some of its major players against the background of the historical, political, and cultur……続きを見る

Robert Desnos remains celebrated today as one of France’s most famous surrealist artists and as a hero and martyr of the French Resistance. Robert Desnos and the Play of Popular Culture sheds new li……続きを見る

Jeanne Mammen's watercolour images of the gender-bending 'new woman' and her candid portrayals of Berlin's thriving nightlife appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar Republi……続きを見る

The Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic s……続きを見る

The emergence and the activities of a second public sphere in the areas of Soviet influence were intricately linked to the performative and intermedial production and usage of alternative spaces. Ap……続きを見る

This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on À la recherche du temps perdu, Leonid Bilmes considers how Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Ben Lerner, Ali S……続きを見る

Celebrated novelist, biographer, and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have co……続きを見る

An incisive analysis of the pedagogy of influential artist and teacher Josef Albers. An extraordinary teacher whose influence continues today, Josef Albers helped shape the Bauhaus school in Germany……続きを見る

A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future Art museums have played a vital role in o……続きを見る

Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world – things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, things like the ugliest dog in the world, and things like wallpape……続きを見る

Paul Klee (1879–1940) unterrichtete neben seiner künstlerischen Tätigkeit über zehn Jahre lang am Bauhaus in Weimar und Dessau, ehe er Professor an der Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie wurde. Dabei entwic……続きを見る

How is art criticism to be understood within an expanding artistic field? A look at its history and its manifestations within globalized conditions shows the variety of the genre, of the criteria an……続きを見る

Das Design-Dilemma gründet auf der Trennungsgeschichte von Design und Kunst seit dem Spätmittelalter. Es beschreibt den Wandel des Designs von einer Kunst- zur Problemlösungsdisziplin. Diese große D……続きを見る

A rare glimpse behind the scenes of the world's most influential museums Who are the people shaping the world's most renowned museums? In this captivating book, Donatien Grau offers a rare glimpse b……続きを見る

Mit The Great Hidden Inspirer, dem vierten Band der Poiesis-Reihe, widmet sich der renommierte Duchamp-Forscher Michael R. Taylor der Rolle Marcel Duchamps als heimlichem Drahtzieher in entscheidend……続きを見る

In seinem Notizbuchbeitrag überträgt der Philosoph Éric Alliez Überlegungen seines im Entstehen begriffenen Buchprojekts zur Diagrammatik und deren Implikationen für den Bereich der zeitgenössischen……続きを見る

In his influential essay “Provisional Painting,” Raphael Rubinstein applied the term “provisional” to contemporary painters whose work looked intentionally casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished ……続きを見る

Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical……続きを見る

Het Nederlandse cultuurbeleid verkeert in de politieke luwte. Iedereen kan maar wat roepen over het nut en de resultaten van kunstbeleid en subsidies. Getoetst wordt het toch niet. Intussen neemt he……続きを見る

Uno dei più grandi storici dell’arte viventi racconta «Alvar González-Palacios è uno degli ultimi campioni di una razza in estinzione, una genia di storici dell'arte che però scrivono come ai romanz……続きを見る

This book is the first overall study of research-based art practices in Southeast Asia. Its objective is to examine the creative and mutual entanglement of academic and artistic research; in short, ……続きを見る

Lontano vicinissimo ultrablu è il progetto inaugurale della nuova sede di ultrablu, associazione che dal 2017 promuove attività artistiche generate dalla (neuro)diversità. Un catalogo e una mostra, ……続きを見る

This book analyses the conceptual and concrete relationships between rhythm and law. Rhythm is the unfolding of ordered and regulated movement. Law operates through the ordering and regulation of mo……続きを見る

In this fascinating work of cultural theory and philosophy, Robert Pfaller explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion. Sports, design, eroticism, social i……続きを見る

This book highlights the significant role that production artists played when Russian cinema was still in its infancy. It uncovers Russian cinema's connections with other art forms, examining how pr……続きを見る

The work of the influential Jesuit theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) has become a common point of reference in discussing the relationship of theology and the arts. However, the full sig……続きを見る

Art and the Historical Film provides an important examination of fine art's impact on filmmaking, grappling with the question of authenticity. From Eugene Delacroix's interpretation of the 1830 Fren……続きを見る