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Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics: The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting wa…

Aesthetic Perfection

Imperfect

Mishuana Goeman

Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World

Mishuana Goeman examines Terrence Malick’s film The New World (2005) and the Pocahontas narrative, analyzing the settler structures and regimes of power that sustain colonialism and empire.

Animal Dreams in Aesthetic Media

Der Sammelband untersucht aus intermedialer und komparatistischer Perspektive die Funktion von Tierfiguren in Traumdarstellungen in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Film. Dabei soll das ästhetische Potentia…

Martine Béland

Nietzsche as Stylist

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rheto…

Beckett Ongoing

You must go on. I can t go on. I ll go on. These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of persevering in times of crisis and impossibility. Yet few reade…

Machine Head

The Blackening

Wonder in South Asia

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

John Macarthur

Is Architecture Art?

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature…

Melvin Chen

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers …

Maja Figge

Black (Post-)Cinemas

Contemporary Afro-diasporic post-cinematic practices should be considered to be genealogically linked with those established in militant African cinemas, but also with their quest of decolonizing (not onl…

Alfred Kubin

The ALBERTINA modern exhibition presents Alfred Kubin's view of the world of evil, the predominant theme of his life and work. The aesthetics of evil prove to be the antithesis of a tranquil idyll for him…

Melvin Chen

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers …

John Macarthur

Is Architecture Art?

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature…

Liturgy

Aesthetica

Liturgy is eine Geheimtipp-Band, die jüngst sogar schon in eher Metal-unaffinen Jahresbestenlisten auftauchte. Black Metal goes Feuilleton. Indie Black Metal. Wenn eine Band die Quadratur des Kr…

Drones in Society

This book explores the evolving world of drones through a multifaceted lens, revealing their profound impact on society and visual culture. The comprehensive collection bridges the gap between technology …

The Messthetics

Anthropocosmic Nest

Video Conferencing

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means f…

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Before Beauty

A critical revision of philosophical aesthetics from the vantage point of ongoing anticolonial struggles. While the poets and thinkers of the Enlightenment claimed that before beauty, all humans would be…