Aesthetics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Sandra Ruiz

Tears for Tears

"Interested in the entanglement of the dead, the living, and their spectral things, this book suggests that via the deliberate labor of shared sorrow in performance of grief-work, we collectively tra…

Richard Wallace

The Pop Documentary Since 1980

Explores the representation of pop musicians and music making in documentary film and television since 1980.

Denison Witmer

Ones Who Wait

Victionary

New Utilitarian

New Utilitarian takes an intriguing look at the designers who are seamlessly applying a systematic approach to their work to translate bold ideas into striking visual languages for the Age of Data.Trends …

Dan Wang

Lyric Personhood

"What does it mean to be a person? In the West, we might identify traits like possessing a "voice," having the capacity for love, and being self-determined. But if words like "person,&…

The Cinema of Ann Hui

A central figure in Hong Kong cinema since her debut with The Secret (1979), Ann Hui was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th Venice International Film Festival in 2020. This book …

Frederick Reece

Forgery in Musical Composition

We all know about art forgeries, but why write fake classical music? In Forgery in Musical Composition , Frederick Reece investigates the methods and motives of mysterious musicians who sign famous histor…

Xing Fan,

Jingju - Beijing/Peking Opera

This is an accessible introduction to jingju (Beijing/Peking opera) which presents readers with an analysis of the different components of its aesthetic form in the context of its ongoing cultural history…

Disinterested Pleasure and Beauty

The conception of disinterested pleasure is not only central to Kant's theory of beauty but also highly influential in contemporary philosophical discourse about beauty. However, it remains unclear, what …

Steven Henry Madoff

Unseparate

"For more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression of fragmentation-of an alienated world in pieces. In this book, critic and curator Steven Henry Madoff…

Steven Henry Madoff

Unseparate

Madoff rethinks modernism-from Wagner to Duchamp, Dada to the Bauhaus-for our present era of network cultureFor more than a century, European modernist art has been written about as a profound expression …

Helen Kapstein

Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …

John E. Thiel

Now and Forever

Building on the insights of the ressourcement theology of grace, this sophisticated theological aesthetics offers a fresh vision of the doctrine of creation through a consideration of the beauty of time.C…

Music Video and Transcultural Imaginaries

From their inception, music videos have served as an important instrument for depicting collective emotional states, cultural affiliations and processes of social change. At the beginning of the 21st cent…

Rebekka Diestelkamp

Making Rural Futures

What does it mean to create a model village - and what kinds of futures are imagined in the process? Across the world and throughout history, the village has served as a powerful ideal of harmony, progres…

Rachel Coventry

Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Following Heidegger's definition of technology as preventing auth…

John Miller

Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals …

Omaar Hena

British Black and Asian Poetry

This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant. Througho…

John Miller

Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals …