Subject: Aesthetics (Keywords)

The 19th-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. However, at the time their avant-garde nature was the cause of much controversy. Professor Laurie Schneider Adams brings to life the paintings, sculpture, photography ...

Anjan Chatterjee takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, he investigates how aesthetic sensibilitiies are etched into our minds, explaining why artistic concerns feature centrally i...

In this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied forms: from music to architecture, light to movement, and design to typography. Moving between the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, his analyses ...

What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this book Charles Taliaferro guides us through different theories of are and beauty..

In 'Aesthetics and Politics' the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

In 'Aesthetics and Politics' the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history..

Designer & merchant, collector & tastemaker, Thomas O'Brien has made a career of translating cool notions of modernism into an easy & generous array of modern styles that anyone can attain. Now he introduces readers to a range of those styles, from casual to formal, vintage to urban, alongside st...

William Morris (1834-96) regarded beauty as a basic human birthright. In this fascinating book, which accompanies a major exhibition, Morris' biographer Fiona MacCarthy looks at how his highly original and generous vision of a new form of society in which art could flourish has reverberated throu...