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  1. Ympäristö, estetiikka ja hyvinvointi
    Contributor: Rannisto, Tarja (Publisher); Puolakka, Kalle (Publisher); Haapala, Arto (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki, Finland

    This collection of essays looks at the issue of human well-being from the point of view of environmental aesthetics. Questions addressed include: What role do aesthetic values have in advancing well-being? Are there environments that are particularly... more

     

    This collection of essays looks at the issue of human well-being from the point of view of environmental aesthetics. Questions addressed include: What role do aesthetic values have in advancing well-being? Are there environments that are particularly supportive of well-being? What is the place of aesthetic factors in environmental and city planning? The authors of the first part of the book illuminate the relationship between aesthetics and well-being by discussing such notions and ideas as aesthetic well-being, interactive environmental planning, aesthetic quality in urban planning, aesthetic footprint, and ecological aesthetics. The authors of this part also engage with many topical questions in environmental and everyday aesthetics. For example, Yuriko Saito’s idea of green aesthetics as well as Allen Carlson’s science-based model of the aesthetic appreciation of nature are critically examined.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Rannisto, Tarja (Publisher); Puolakka, Kalle (Publisher); Haapala, Arto (Publisher)
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522229090; 9789522228765
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    Subjects: Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Philosophy: aesthetics; Regional & area planning; Environmental science, engineering & technology
    Other subjects: environmental aesthetics; well-being; urban design; environmental plannig; environment; community planning
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (190 p.)
  2. Traumdramaturgie und Selbstreflexion: Bildstrategien romantischer Traumdarstellungen im Spannungsfeld zeitgenössischer Traumtheorie und Ästhetik
    Author: Dieckmann, Lisa
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Modern Academic Publishing, Cologne

    The dissertation analyses dream images in romanticist art, with regards to inherent dreamanalogue strategies in consideration of contemporary dream theory and aesthetics, with a focus on the period between 1820 and 1840. The study does not provide a... more

     

    The dissertation analyses dream images in romanticist art, with regards to inherent dreamanalogue strategies in consideration of contemporary dream theory and aesthetics, with a focus on the period between 1820 and 1840. The study does not provide a typological, iconographical or motif-historical collection of samples, but analyses different aspects of selected artworks which represent a wide range in terms of their contextual, formal and topographical heterogeneity, and overcomes the existing stereotypical classification in the context of romanticist art reflection. The study identifies that, beyond the contextual-iconographical dimension, the dream serves as an aesthetical category because it is reflected not only as a motif but also in relation to its dramaturgy. In the romantic awareness of the difficulty of an adequate representation of invisible images, the nonlinear, associative, ciphered, space- and time-simultaneous structure of the dream is adapted as a method, and is staged by varied and differentiated configurations. This is mirrored by comprehensive or formal concepts (genre, technique, media and interdisciplinary), as well as in fragmentary structures (sketches and drawings), in materiality (transparency and colour) or arabesque and combinatory production principles.

    The study contains three chapters: after a general introduction to the subject, the analysis of the current state of research and the demonstration of the methodology in the first chapter, the second chapter focuses on contemporary dream discourses (especially the theories of Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert and Carl Gustav Carus) and the constitutive role of the philosophy of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. By also involving the literary concepts of dreams the romantic awareness of the deficiency of the visible image compared to the invisible, which forces an avoidance of a mimetic art perception, becomes obvious. The third chapter forms the main body of the study. On the basis of selected dream images it analyses the different artistic strategies and conditions of reception.

    The first section of the third chapter focuses on artist dream imagery, namely the Musician’s Dream by Caspar David Friedrich, Raphael’s Dream by Franz and Johannes Riepenhausen and the Dream of Erwin von Steinbach by Moritz von Schwind. The analysis indicates that the dreaming artist serves as mise-en-abyme of the dream-analogue productive and reflexive process, and the artwork itself.

    The second section of chapter three makes landscape spaces accessible as imaginative concepts and projections of emotional states, according to current literature studies. Landscape spaces serve as patterns for reflection processes, which is explored on the basis of The Dreamer by Caspar David Friedrich.

    The third section of the third chapter focuses on a combinatory and arabesque concept as a dream-analogue and self-reflexive strategy – the collage-like compilation, association and transformation of heterogeneous elements which are analysed on the basis of the artworks Dream of Adam by Moritz von Schwind and The Evening by Clemens Brentano. Die Arbeit untersucht Bildstrategien von Traumdarstellungen der deutschen Romantik unter Berücksichtigung der zeitgenössischen Traumtheorie und Ästhetik mit einer Fokussierung auf den Zeitraum zwischen 1820 und 1840. Die Studie geht der Frage nach, ob die Traumdarstellung jenseits ihrer ikonographischen Dimension auch als ästhetisches Konzept fungiert, indem die Dramaturgie des Traumes als Methode eingesetzt wird. Die romantische Präferenz für das Unbewusste – gerade auch hinsichtlich der Kunstproduktion – zeigt sich in der Auseinandersetzung mit der philosophisch-literarischen Frühromantik und kulminiert in einer Ästhetik der inneren Bilder. Diese reflektiert die Darstellbarkeit unsichtbarer Bilder und findet in der alinearen, assoziativen, chiffrierten, raum- und zeitsimultanen Dramaturgie des Traums ihre adäquate Struktur, auch weil sie sich einer homogenen Werkgenese zu widersetzen vermag. Unter Berücksichtigung unterschiedlicher Aspekte analysiert die Arbeit ausgewählte und heterogene Beispiele von Traumdarstellungen, die als Ausdruck dieser (Selbst)reflexion gelesen werden können. Lesen Sie hier die detaillierte English Summary: bit.ly/1yxFcVi

    Lisa Dieckmann promovierte 2013 im Fach Kunstgeschichte an der Universität zu Köln bei Prof. Dr. Susanne Wittekind, ist seit 2005 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und seit 2008 Geschäftsführerin von prometheus – das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung & Lehre am Kunsthistorischen Institut der Universität zu Köln. Sie ist verantwortlich für das DFG-Projekt »Meta-Image – virtuelle Forschungsumgebung für den Bilddiskurs in den Kunst- und Bildwissenschaften«, außerdem Gründungsmitglied des Cologne Center for eHumanties und Sprecherin des Arbeitskreises Digitale Kunstgeschichte.

     
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  3. Buddha in Beton : Eine buddhologische Kritik der neuen Wege des japanischen Tempelbaus
    Author: Gerlach, Jonas
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Modern Academic Publishing, Cologne

    emple. And only because temple architecture – as well as paintings, statues, gardens etc. – shows the presence of the Buddha in this way does it become a religious place where the Buddha is actually present. The final discussion of this study puts... more

     

    emple. And only because temple architecture – as well as paintings, statues, gardens etc. – shows the presence of the Buddha in this way does it become a religious place where the Buddha is actually present. The final discussion of this study puts these Buddhist teachings in a dialogue with modern aesthetic architectural concepts argued by temple architects. The contrasting points of view make it clear that the explicitly Buddhist idea of Buddhist temple architecture can not be grasped by aesthetics, because its purpose is to show the invisible presence of the Buddha and not to be a sensual (i.e. aesthetic) experience of the visible object itself in the first place. However, aesthetic concepts of art have become common in Japan since the late 19th century. They are the foundation of the described new ways in which temples were built and designed since then. One indication for the impact of aesthetics are Japanese words like shimboru シンボル/shōchō 象徴 (symbol) or fun’iki 雰囲気 (atmosphere) which are used by architects to describe their temple architecture and matters of design. These words were formed around the turn of the century to express European concepts of art and aesthetics, since before that these words and ideas simply did not exist in Japan. And it is only since then, that temples were perceived as aesthetic symbols with various meanings that can be defined by an architect, and that they have a certain atmosphere which should be designed for making visitors feeling comfortable. Now it is the architect himself who gives meaning to its work and who is responsible for a nice spatial experience. But none of these architects is talking about himself becoming Buddha by building a temple.

    So not only the architectural appearance and construction of Buddhist temples have changed enormously throughout the last 150 years, but also the task of building itself. There has always been change in appearance and construction throughout the history of Buddhism and in the different Buddhist cultures, but the redefinition of the temple as an architectural piece of art is a very recent development in Japan and the actual new idea causing these dramatic architectural changes.

    " "Viele buddhistische Tempelbauten in Japan sind heute aus Beton. Sie haben Glasfenster, Teppichböden und elektrisches Licht. Manche sehen aus wie gewöhnliche Wohnhäuser, andere imitieren das Erscheinungsbild traditioneller Bauweisen, wieder andere sind von Star-Architekten geplant. Alle diese Bauten zeigen, dass die alte und einst durch die buddhistische Religion formulierte Aufgabe, einen Tempel zu bauen, in den letzten 150 Jahren in unterschiedlicher Weise neu interpretiert wurde. Gründe dafür sind die japanische Auseinandersetzung mit westlichen Ideen von Kunst, Architektur, Religion und Ästhetik ab dem späten 19. Jahrhundert, die darauf rückführbare Annahme, Tempelbau sei eine Aufgabe für kunstschaffende Architekten, sowie das Bedürfnis, den Ansprüchen der Gegenwart neu zu begegnen. All das führte dazu, dass Jahrhunderte alte liturgische Ideen des Tempelbaus, die in buddhistischen Traditionstexten mit ritueller Wichtigkeit festgehalten sind, ihre Bedeutung zugunsten eines neuen ästhetischen Kunstdenkens eingebüßt haben. Ordnungen und Darstellungen zum Beispiel von maṇḍalas oder Buddhaländern, die fuür den Tempelbau formgebend und sinnstiftend sind, werden in einem künstlerischen Denken von Raumerlebnis und Baustil zu blassen ästhetischen Gestaltungselementen. Diese Studie zeigt zum einen anhand vieler Beispiele die angesprochene jüngere bauliche Entwicklung im Tempelbau auf und legt dabei einen Schwerpunkt auf die Frage nach dem spezifisch Religiösen der neuen Baugestalt. Zum anderen geht sie gleichzeitig der Frage nach, was seitens der buddhistischen Religion als Aufgabe für den Tempel überhaupt formuliert ist, was dies für den Tempelbau bedeutet und wo neben der veränderten neuen Baugestalt deswegen das eigentlich Neue in den jüngeren Entwicklungen des Tempelbaus liegt. Lesen Sie hier die detaillierte English Summary: bit.ly/2CYGITG.

    Jonas Gerlach hat Japanologie, Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft an der Universität zu Köln und der Sophia Universität in Tokyo studiert (2005–2011). Im Jahr 2015 erfolgte die Promotion im Fach Japanologie an der Universität zu Köln. Zuvor war er dort wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (2012–2014). Jonas Gerlach ist derzeit Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung der Pausanio GmbH & Co.KG, einer Agentur für digitale Kulturkommunikation."

     
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  4. Incapacity : Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior
    Author: Golub, Spencer
    Published: 20140808
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

    In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of... more

     

    In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language’s representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein’s thought a further, very personal significance—its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers.

     

    Underlying what Golub calls “performance behavior” is Wittgenstein’s notion of “pain behavior”—that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Philosophy; Language game (philosophy); Logic; Ludwig Wittgenstein
  5. Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures
    Author: Blumson, Ben
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference... more

     

    It’s a platitude – which only a philosopher would dream of denying – that whereas words are connected to what they represent merely by arbitrary conventions, pictures are connected to what they represent by resemblance. The most important difference between my portrait and my name, for example, is that whereas my portrait and I are connected by my portrait’s resemblance to me, my name and I are connected merely by an arbitrary convention. The first aim of this book is to defend this platitude from the apparently compelling objections raised against it, by analysing depiction in a way which reveals how it is mediated by resemblance. It’s natural to contrast the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance, which emphasises the differences between depictive and descriptive representation, with an extremely close analogy between depiction and description, which emphasises the similarities between depictive and descriptive representation. Whereas the platitude emphasises that the connection between my portrait and me is natural in a way the connection between my name and me is not, the analogy emphasises the contingency of the connection between my portrait and me. Nevertheless, the second aim of this book is to defend an extremely close analogy between depiction and description. The strategy of the book is to argue that the apparently compelling objections raised against the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance are manifestations of more general problems, which are familiar from the philosophy of language. These problems, it argues, can be resolved by answers analogous to their counterparts in the philosophy of language, without rejecting the platitude. So the combination of the platitude that depiction is mediated by resemblance with a close analogy between depiction and description turns out to be a compelling theory of depiction, which combines the virtues of common sense with the insights of its detractors.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: pictorial representation; intentionality; depiction; representation; resemblance; language; pictures; Axiom; Chess; Formal language; Left- and right-hand traffic; Mona Lisa; Nominalism; Predicate (grammar); Red Square; Tacit knowledge
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (222 p.)
  6. The Philosophical Salon: Speculations, Reflections, Interventions
    Contributor: Marder, Michael (Publisher); Vieira, Patricia (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    Through the interpretative lens of today’s leading thinkers, The Philosophical Salon illuminates the persistent intellectual queries and the most disquieting concerns of our actuality. Across its three main divisions—Speculations, Reflections, and... more

     

    Through the interpretative lens of today’s leading thinkers, The Philosophical Salon illuminates the persistent intellectual queries and the most disquieting concerns of our actuality. Across its three main divisions—Speculations, Reflections, and Interventions—the volume constructs a complex mirror, in which our age might be able to recognize itself with all its imperfections, shadowy spots, even threatening abysses and latent promises. On the cutting edge of philosophy, political and literary theory, and aesthetics, this book courageously tackles a wide array of topics, including climate change, the role of technology, reproductive rights, the problem of refugees, the task of the university, political extremism, embodiment, utopia, food ethics, and sexual identity. It is an enduring record of an ongoing conversation, as well as a building block for any attempt to make sense of our world’s multifaceted realities. Contributors: Robert Albritton, Linda Martín Alcoff, Claudia Baracchi, Geoffrey Bennington, Jay M. Bernstein, Costica Bradatan, Jill Casid, David Castillo, Antonio Cerella, Anna Charlton, Claire Colebrook, Sarah Conly, Nikita Dhawan, William Egginton, Roberto Esposito, Mihail Evans, Gary Francione, Luis Garagalza, Michael Gillespie, Michael Hauskeller, Ágnes Heller, Daniel Innerarity, Jacob Kiernan, Julia Kristeva, Daniel Kunitz, Susanna Lindberg, Jeff Love, Michael Marder, Todd May, Michael Meng, John Milbank, Warren Montag, T. M. Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy, Kelly Oliver, Adrian Pabst, Martha Patterson, Richard Polt, Gabriel Rockhill, Hasana Sharp, Doris Sommer, Gayatri Spivak, Kara Thompson, Patrícia Vieira, Slavoj Žižek.

     
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  7. Minóy
    Author: Nechvatal, Joseph
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Minóy is a rescue operation with several life rafts. Minóy-the-book provides an introduction and overview to the important noise music artist Minóy — the pseudonym of American electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (1951-2010).... more

     

    Minóy is a rescue operation with several life rafts. Minóy-the-book provides an introduction and overview to the important noise music artist Minóy — the pseudonym of American electronic art musician and sound artist Stanley Keith Bowsza (1951-2010). Minóy’s audio compositions, often conjuring up an enigmatic world of almost dreadful depth, earned him a key position in the homemade independent cassette culture scene of the 1980s. Minóy-the-CD (available HERE) makes available nine of Minóy’s audio compositions that span the years 1985 to 1993. These were drawn from recently discovered archival material and selected by the editor and artistic director of the project, Joseph Nechvatal, in collaboration with composer Phillip B. Klingler (PBK). Klingler (co-producer and sound engineer) houses the Minóy archive and has re-mastered the tracks, most of which have never been heard before (it was thought that Minóy stopped recording in 1992). Minóy-the-book contains two written monograms of Minóy, one by close friend Amber Sabri and one by artist and art theoretician Joseph Nechvatal. There are three additional essays by Nechvatal, the first of which, “The Obscurity of Minóy,” recounts the history of the recovery of the audio material from obscurity. In the subsequent essays (“The Aesthetics of an Obscure Monster Sacré” and “Hyper Noise Aesthetics”), Nechvatal reflects on the artistic benefits of obscurity and situates Minóy’s deep droning palimpsest soundscapes within an original aesthetic-theoretical context of an obscure monster sacré, and also examines Minóy’s legacy in terms of current aesthetic responses to the surveillance state, couching Minóy’s mysterious and excessive compositions in terms of a general art of noise. In total, Minóy’s work undergoes a critical intricacy in terms of a contemporary art practice engaged in the fragile balance between production of, and resistance to, perceptibility. Nechvatal brings a subversive reading to Minóy’s work by presenting it as a form of hyper-noise artistic gazing, based in the flipping of figure and ground. The book also contains sixty black and white portrait images from the Minóy as Haint as King Lear series that photographer Maya Eidolon (Amber Sabri) created before his death in collaboration with Minóy (then known as Haint) and Stuart Hass (Minóy’s lifetime partner).

     
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    Media type: Ebook
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: music; aesthetics; noise art; cultural studies; cassette culture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (104 p.)
  8. Ravish the Republic: The Archives of The Iron Garters Crime/Art Collective
    Contributor: Berger, Michael L. (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    In the 2011 book Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, the artist Gregory Sholette posits that we are living in an era of surplus creative energies concentrated in a teeming archive of artists, the poor, the “unskilled” and... more

     

    In the 2011 book Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, the artist Gregory Sholette posits that we are living in an era of surplus creative energies concentrated in a teeming archive of artists, the poor, the “unskilled” and the “economically invisible.” It is a potentially disruptive archive that capitalism can’t always manage but can still hope to eventually exploit and assimilate. Within this archive seethes creative energy that can extend itself in unique and unsettling ways, across multiple categories and disciplines. Often, however such energy is captured by the winners and arbiters in our “risk society” and thereby sanitized and neutralized. So it becomes necessary for artists, theorists, writers and activists to be versatile in their tactics, cryptic and evasive in their manifestations and criminally implacable in their visions. The Iron Garters are an “art gang” that masquerades, disseminates and performs as your archetypal “criminals,” “outcasts” “mystics,” “losers” and “lunatics”: in short, a vital and necessary social surplus. Their antics have been traced back to Jean Genet’s novel The Thief’s Journal, the films of Kenneth Anger, as well as the Dada poems of Baroness Elsa and Hugo Ball. Yet still other Garters have been nourished on the Vienna Actionists, Genesis P-Orridge, Diamanda Galas, Gilles Deleuze, Samuel Delany, and the dulcet sounds of The Cramps. With a critical and aesthetic arsenal salvaged from underground “kulchurs” and academia’s collective libido, the Iron Garters are not afraid to demand excitement along with analysis, frenzy coupled to resistance, and fashion inseparable from infiltration. Founded in San Francisco on a full moon night after a “deathpunk” show, the original members grew adversely impacted by the economic invasions reducing a once great city to a tepid monoculture. Fueled by queer, antinomian, heretical and radical traditions, the Garters pilgrimaged into various trans-continental sanctuaries and beachheads, leaving behind them radiant paper trails of provocation and sedition. This volume is one such radiant paper trail.

     
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    Contributor: Berger, Michael L. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: aesthetics; art activism; disruptive collectives; mail art; manifesto
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (104 p.)
  9. And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art
    Contributor: Behar, Katherine (Publisher); Mikelson, Emmy (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  punctum books, Earth, Milky Way

    n And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson explore how artists engage with nonanthropocentrism, one of the primary tenets shared by recent speculative realist and new materialist philosophies. Extending their... more

     

    n And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, Katherine Behar and Emmy Mikelson explore how artists engage with nonanthropocentrism, one of the primary tenets shared by recent speculative realist and new materialist philosophies. Extending their investigations in And Another Thing, an exhibition which the authors curated in 2011, this volume documents both that exhibition and expands on two of its curatorial aims: prioritizing art historical contexts for contemporary philosophy (rather than the other way around), and apprehending artworks as historically specific objects of philosophy. The book is organized in three sections. In the first section, Behar and Mikelson provide long-form essays that chart the evolution of nonanthropocentrism and art, spanning eighteenth-century architectural drawing, performance, minimalist sculpture, and contemporary postminimalism. These essays raise the stakes for art and speculative realism, showing how artists have figured and prefigured nonanthropocentric ideas strikingly similar to those expounded in various “new” realist, materialist, and speculativist philosophies. Literally occupying the center of the volume, in section two, the exhibition is represented by full-color plates of eleven works by Carl Andre, Laura Carton, Valie Export, Regina José Galindo, Tom Kotik, Mary Lucking, Bruce Nauman, Grit Ruhland, Anthony Titus, Ruslan Trusewych, and Zimoun. Artworks by these emerging and canonical figures lay bare the networks of alliances underlying the exhibition. The book concludes with three short meditations on the relation between nonanthropocentrism and art, and what that relation might portend for future thought. These essays, by Bill Brown, Patricia Ticineto Clough, and Robert Jackson, are speculative in the sense that they perceive potentials for theory arising from nonanthropocentrism’s manifestations in art.

     
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    Contributor: Behar, Katherine (Publisher); Mikelson, Emmy (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: aesthetics; cultural theory; thing theory; posthumanism; anthropocene
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (86 p.)
  10. Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia
    Contributor: Skre, Dagfinn (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    This book discusses the 3rd–11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves... more

     

    This book discusses the 3rd–11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the final section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th–14th centuries.

     
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    Contributor: Skre, Dagfinn (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9783110421156; 9783110425796
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    Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Early kingship Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia Germanic societies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (545 p.)
  11. Dividing Texts
    Author: Bhattarai, Bidur
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise. The visual organization of texts in North Indian and Nepalese manuscripts from 800 to 1300 CE is at the centre of the present... more

     

    The number of manuscripts produced in the Indian sub-continent is astounding and is the result of a massive enterprise. The visual organization of texts in North Indian and Nepalese manuscripts from 800 to 1300 CE is at the centre of the present study. It sheds light on both the ways of manuscripts production and the employment of the manuscripts in ritual contexts in different areas of India and Nepal.

     
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  12. Art in Progress : A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde
    Author: Doorman, Maarten
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in... more

     

    In this challenging and erudite philosophical essay, the author argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism have had a crippling effect on art - more than ever before, art is in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context, and the concept of progress is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. History of art can be seen as a process of constant accumulation. Works of art comment on each other, enriching each other's meanings. These complex interrelationships lead to progress in both the sensibility of the observer and the significance of the works of art. Alles in de kunst is in beweging. Tegelijkertijd lijkt met het eind van de avantgarde de grote stilstand te zijn ingetreden. Het veelbesproken einde van de kunst en het postmodernisme roepen veel twijfels op. In dit helder geschreven betoog onderzoekt de auteur een begrip dat door de tot cliche geworden afschaffing van de Grote Verhalen onzichtbaar is geworden: het vooruitgangsidee. Hij laat zien hoe dat idee in de achttiende eeuw opkomt, allesbepalend is tijdens de avantgarde en met het eind van de avantgarde ten onder gaat. Maarten Doorman pleit voor een kritische herwaardering van vooruitgangsbegrippen om de als zorgeloosheid vermomde vrijblijvendheid van het postmodernisme het hoofd te bieden. Arthur Danto: The end of art does not entail that there has not been genuine progress in the philosophy of art. Maarten Doorman's challenging and valuable study contributes to that progress, whether or not progress in art itself remains, as he argues, a tenable idea.

     
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    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789053565858
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    Subjects: History of art / art & design styles; Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: philosophy; kunst en kunstgeschiedenis; filosofie; historical treatment of fine and decorative arts
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (181 p.)
  13. Platonic Occasions: Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culture
    Author: Soderholm, James; Begam, Richard
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Stockholm University Press, Stockholm

    In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis.... more

     

    In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm’s ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form of dialogic knowledge based on the friction and frisson of two minds contending, inventing and improvising. The authors discuss not only what is healthy and vigorous about Western culture but also consider where that culture is in retreat, as they seek to understand the legacy of the Enlightenment and its relation to the contemporary moment.Platonic Occasionsis an experiment in criticism that enjoins the reader to imagine what the dialogic imagination can do when inspired by Platonic inquiry, but not bound by a single master and the singular mind. Beyond Socratic maieutics and Cartesian meditation is a form of intellectual interplay where it is impossible not to be of two minds.

     
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  14. Chapter Writing, Copying, Translating : Ethiopia as a Manuscript Culture
    Author: Bausi, Alessandro
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    What do Mesoamerica, Greece, Byzantium, Island, Chad, Ethiopia, India, Tibet, China and Japan have in common? Like many other cultures of the world, they share a particular form of cultural heritage: ancient handwritten documents. This volume offers... more

     

    What do Mesoamerica, Greece, Byzantium, Island, Chad, Ethiopia, India, Tibet, China and Japan have in common? Like many other cultures of the world, they share a particular form of cultural heritage: ancient handwritten documents. This volume offers in 16 articles on philological, cultural, and material aspects of manuscripts a common ground across disciplines and cultures.

     
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    Contributor: Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich (Publisher); Quenzer, Jörg (Publisher); Bondarev, Dmitry (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110225624; 9783110384826
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    Parent title: Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
    Subjects: History: theory & methods; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology
  15. Wittgenstein on Colour
    Contributor: Gierlinger, Frederik A. (Publisher); Riegelnik, Štefan (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    20th-Century Philosophy; Aesthetics; Studies on Colour more

     

    20th-Century Philosophy; Aesthetics; Studies on Colour

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110351101
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    Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: 20th-Century Philosophy; Aesthetics; Studies on Colour
  16. Manuscript Cultures: Mapping the Field
    Contributor: Sobisch, Jan-Ulrich (Publisher); Quenzer, Jörg (Publisher); Bondarev, Dmitry (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology more

     

    Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology

     
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    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110225631
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    Subjects: History: theory & methods; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Cultural Studies; Manuscripts Philology
  17. The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier : Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions
    Contributor: Hanich, Julian (Publisher); Fairfax, Daniel (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate... more

     

    For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.

     
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    Contributor: Hanich, Julian (Publisher); Fairfax, Daniel (Publisher)
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: Film Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (361 p.)
  18. Manuscripts and Archives : Comparative Views on Record-Keeping
    Contributor: Bausi, Alessandro (Publisher); Brockmann, Christian (Publisher); Friedrich, Michael (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany

    The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC... more

     

    The series publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the emerging field of manuscript studies (manuscriptology), which includes disciplines such as philology, palaeography, codicology, art history, and material analysis. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without geographical or other limitations on the material studied; it contributes to a historical and systematic survey of manuscript cultures, and provides a new foundation for current discussions in Cultural Studies.

     
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    Contributor: Bausi, Alessandro (Publisher); Brockmann, Christian (Publisher); Friedrich, Michael (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110541397; 9783110541366
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    Subjects: Non-Western philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: manuscript studies; manuscriptology; SMC; historical survey; systematic survey; manuscript cultures; cultural studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (476 p.)
  19. Chapter Wittgenstein as a Commentator on the Psychology and Anthropology of Colour
    Author: Kusch, Martin
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    As is well known, Wittgenstein had a life-long interest in the philosophy of colour, from the Tractatus all the way to the last notebooks that were posthumously published as two books, Remarks on Colour and On Certainty. Moreover, Wittgenstein’s... more

     

    As is well known, Wittgenstein had a life-long interest in the philosophy of colour, from the Tractatus all the way to the last notebooks that were posthumously published as two books, Remarks on Colour and On Certainty. Moreover, Wittgenstein’s various re­flections of the perception and classification of colours have already been analyzed by a number of in­fluential interpreters. These interpreters have often sought to illuminate Wittgenstein’s views by relating them to other, earlier treatments of phenomena of colour, for example those written by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917), or David Katz (1884-1953).¹One aim of my paper is to add a new “foil” to this list: I want to make plausible that a number of Wittgenstein’s remarks on colour are responses to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British and American work on the psychology and anthropology of colour. I am not the first to put forward this idea – it is mentioned in a recent paper by the historian of science Simon Schaffer (2010: 279). But Schaffer’s comment is brief, and he provides only little evidence. So there remains plenty for me to do. I have a second aim, too. I want to argue that Wittgenstein’s comments are still of systematic interest today. The link between the historical thesis and the systematic concern is established by the fact that a very influential body of contemporary work in the anthropology of colour is strongly influenced by the early British work. Presumably, if Wittgenstein’s comments work as criticism of the latter, it will also weaken the appeal of the former. My paper falls into three parts. Section 2 gives an introduction to the relevant psychological and anthropological studies. Section 3 situates some of Wittgenstein’s comments vis-à-vis these investigations. Chapter 4 summarises my observations.

     
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    Contributor: Gierlinger, Frederik A. (Publisher); Riegelnik, Štefan (Publisher)
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    ISBN: 9783110554809; 9783110383355
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    Parent title: Wittgenstein on Colour
    Subjects: Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: 20th-Century Philosophy; Aesthetics; Studies on Colour
  20. Men in the Middle. Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe
    Contributor: Patzold, Steffen (Publisher); van van Rhijn, Carine (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter

    This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. On the one hand, manuscript evidence shows their knowledge, expertise and potential to teach, whereas charter collections shed light on local priests... more

     

    This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. On the one hand, manuscript evidence shows their knowledge, expertise and potential to teach, whereas charter collections shed light on local priests as active members of networks of the locally powerful. By combining both approaches and covering most of early medieval Europe, this book is the first to offer a comprehensive overview of the subject.

     
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    Contributor: Patzold, Steffen (Publisher); van van Rhijn, Carine (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110444483; 9783110443417; 9783110436204
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    Subjects: Medieval history; Philosophy: aesthetics; Church history
    Other subjects: Early middle ages; social history; history of Christianity
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (262 p.)
  21. The Stoic Theory of Beauty
    Author: Celkyte, Aiste
    Published: 2020

    Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aesthetics Shows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of both ancient philosophy and aesthetics Analyses material to show that there is a coherent and... more

     

    Highlights the important contribution Stoic philosophy made to aesthetics

     

    Shows that this is a largely unexplored area of interest to scholars of both ancient philosophy and aesthetics

    Analyses material to show that there is a coherent and substantial attempt at systematic enquiry into aesthetic phenomena

    Discusses how Stoic ideas could enhance our understanding of ancient aesthetics and even contribute to contemporary aesthetics

     

    Aistė Čelkytė shows us that Stoic views about beauty were substantial and compelling. She examines the ways in which the Stoics used aesthetic vocabulary in their arguments to demonstrate that aesthetic concepts played an important role in their philosophy.

    Čelkytė argues that understanding the Stoic’s aesthetic views allows us to interpret their famous account of virtue more thoroughly. She also explores the place that Stoic aesthetics has within the broader ancient Greek and Roman tradition, highlighting the value of incorporating Stoic views in the discussions of aesthetic properties and values.

     
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  22. The new aestheticism
    Author: Joughin, John J.; Malpas, Simon
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press

    The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art,... more

     

    The rise of literary theory spawned the rise of anti-aestheticism, so that even for cultural theorists, discussions concerning aesthetics were often carried out in a critical shorthand that failed to engage with the particularity of the work of art, much less the specificities of aesthetic experience. This book introduces the notion of a new aestheticism - 'new' insofar as it identifies a turn taken by a number of important contemporary thinkers towards the idea that focussing on the specifically aesthetic impact of a work of art or literature has the potential to open radically different ways of thinking about identity, politics and culture. The appearance of a new aestheticism at a moment that is often termed 'post-theoretical' is a direct index of the extent to which, as 'theory' now enters a more reflective phase, there is an increased willingness among critics and philosophers to consider the ways in which literary and cultural theory often overlooked key aspects of its reliance on philosophical aesthetics. With its impressive array of contributors, The new aestheticism will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, philosophy and cultural studies.

     
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: theory; literary; aestheticism; aesthetics; Immanuel Kant; Martin Heidegger; Modernity; Theodor W. Adorno; Work of art
  23. Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art : What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them?
    Contributor: Bundgaard, Peer F. (Publisher); Stjernfelt, Frederik (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Springer Nature, Cham

    ​This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology... more

     

    ​This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences. The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities. The second issue studied in this volume is related to the ontology of the work of art: Written or visual artworks are a specific type of objects, containing particular kinds of representation which elicit a particular kind of experience. The research question explored is: What properties in artful objects trigger this type of experience, and what characterizes representation in written and visual artworks? The volume sets the scene for state-of-the-art inquiries in the intersection between the psychology and ontology of art. The investigations of the relation between the properties of artworks and the characteristics of aesthetic experience increase our insight into what art is. In addition, they shed light on essential properties of human meaning-making in general.

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-319-14090-2
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    Subjects: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Cognition & cognitive psychology
    Other subjects: Philosophy; Phenomenology ; Cognitive psychology; Aesthetics
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)
  24. dis/cord : Thinking Sound through Agential Realism
    Author: Toksöz Fairbairn, Kevin
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    dis/cord is an experiment in reading sound. Embarking from Karen Barad’s early work on agential realism, it diffracts quantum physics through sound art, finding the sympathetic resonances that allow them to speak together. dis/cord believes in the... more

     

    dis/cord is an experiment in reading sound. Embarking from Karen Barad’s early work on agential realism, it diffracts quantum physics through sound art, finding the sympathetic resonances that allow them to speak together. dis/cord believes in the materialism of sound, and strives not to understand it, but to become entangled with it. It asserts that impartial observation is impossible and understands immersion as a participatory and collaborative act. Sound art pieces provide the backdrop for a series of reflections on space, time, and matter. They trace the “marks on bodies” that sound leaves behind in its ephemeral vibration, finding new forms of sensation and interpretation through the pain and hearing loss that a life devoted to sound can cause.

     

    Drifting between sound studies, artistic research, musicology, and craftsmanship, dis/cord uses agential realism as a platform to approach thinking with, through, and about sound. Following Barad’s commitment to diffraction as a form of critique, it superposes a variety of sounds and ideas in the hope that their consonances and dissonances can provoke new ways of engaging with sound as a cultural and material agent. It is neither an appeal to scientist positivism nor a mystical immersion in listening. Rather, it builds from the intertwined physical and metaphysical curiosities that characterize Barad’s work, proposing a corporeal engagement with the disjointed temporal and spacial (dis)continuities that sonic materialism helps to build, understand, and create.

     
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    ISBN: 9781685710460
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    Subjects: Theory of music & musicology; Philosophy: aesthetics
    Other subjects: agential realism;artistic research;embodiment;Karen Barad;new materialism;noise;sound studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (146 p.)
  25. Avantgarde Suomessa
    Contributor: Hautamaki, Irmeli (Publisher); Piippo, Laura (Publisher); Sederholm, Helena (Publisher)
    Published: 2021

    Avant-garde in Finland is the first book to provide an overarching introduction to avant-garde art by Finnish artists. The articles in the book discuss the application and development of the cultural ideas of the avant-garde in Finnish art from the... more

     

    Avant-garde in Finland is the first book to provide an overarching introduction to avant-garde art by Finnish artists. The articles in the book discuss the application and development of the cultural ideas of the avant-garde in Finnish art from the early 20th century till the present day. The book focusses on the social, political, and artistic characteristics of avant-garde art and their manifestation in Finnish avant-garde literature, visual arts, architecture, fashion, and music. The book shows the remarkable role of women artists in the development of the Finnish avant-garde. Many artists and groups are presented in the book for the first time. At the same time, the articles highlight connections between well-known Finnish artists and international avant-garde movements that have not been recognized in earlier research. A key theme of the book is the tension between the internationality of avant-garde and the nationalist elements of Finnish culture. The book is peer-reviewed, and its authors are eminent senior scholars and younger researchers.

     
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    Contributor: Hautamaki, Irmeli (Publisher); Piippo, Laura (Publisher); Sederholm, Helena (Publisher)
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789518583878; 9789518583861; 9789518582802
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    Subjects: Philosophy: aesthetics; History of art / art & design styles; Social & cultural history; Literary studies: general; Theatre: individual actors & directors; The arts
    Other subjects: fashion; architechture; literature; arts; modernism; Avant-garde
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (452 p.)