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What if the work of a nurse, physio, or homecare worker was designated an art, so that the qualities of the experiences they create became understood as aesthetic qualities? What if the interactions……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

世界上的所有產業裡面，大概只有「藝術」這個產業， 文字的說明常常不是在「輔助」使用者理解， 而是「擴大」使用者與產品〈藝術品〉之間的鴻溝。 然而，「有效溝通」一直是，也永遠會是人類交流所有事物的趨勢， ……続きを見る

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty centuries'? W……続きを見る

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in visual culture. In our turbulent medias……続きを見る

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater……続きを見る

What goes into creating art? How can we learn to "read" paintings? What are the key elements of composition? An art ebook like no other, How Art Works uses practical graphics to demonstrate the tech……続きを見る

Timeless, elegant and innovative, Celine sits at the intersection of high fashion and minimal sophistication. Beginning with the origins of the house in 1940s Paris and coming right up to Hedi Slima……続きを見る

The present ebook comprises the complete writings of William Shakespeare. It comes with 150 original illustrations which are the engravings John Boydell commissioned for his Boydell Shakespeare Gall……続きを見る

Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of ……続きを見る

Contents: Watch and Ward Roderick Hudson The American The Europeans Confidence Washington Square The Portrait of a Lady The Bostonians The Princess Casamassima The Reverberator The Tragic Muse The O……続きを見る

Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern per……続きを見る

A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A ……続きを見る

How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us. The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been mi……続きを見る

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More peopl……続きを見る

一項傾國之力的文明試驗，一股不願被世界拋下的恐懼 漢字書寫 ◆ 科技革命 ◆ 權力運作 中文輸入法的起源，人機互動的先聲 現代資訊科技史上最重要、卻被誤解最深的發明 挑戰字母文字霸權　化不可能為可能 跨越五千……続きを見る

Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical ……続きを見る

A provocative theory of the gimmick as an aesthetic category steeped in the anxieties of capitalism. Repulsive and yet strangely attractive, the gimmick is a form that can be found virtually everywh……続きを見る

The role of design, both expert and nonexpert, in the ongoing wave of social innovation toward sustainability. In a changing world everyone designs: each individual person and each collective subjec……続きを見る

How "drowned town" literature, road movies, energy landscape photography, and "death train" narratives represent the brutality of industrial infrastructures. In this book, Michael Truscello looks at……続きを見る

Just as the clothes we wear can communicate our personality and how we want to be perceived, so fashion can reflect the politics and preoccupations of the society that produced it. A Cultural Histor……続きを見る

A collection that tracks the astonishing impact of one vernacular aesthetic categoryーthe cuteーon postwar and contemporary art. The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category……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

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

Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battl……続きを見る

15 beautiful embroidery projects from the era of Jane Austen. Jane Austen was as skilful with a needle as she was with a pen. This unique book from Jennie Batchelor and Alison Larkin showcases recen……続きを見る

Creating meaningful images goes beyond technique but does not exclude it as a relevant component of this composition. There are spaces for dialogues about image production to take place. I do not in……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

**An illuminating look at smart technology, by the legendary designer and author of The Design of Everyday Things. “Written with wit, authority and the pragmatic, everyman touch that probably made N……続きを見る

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of al……続きを見る