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Cricut Maker 2 Books In 1 - The Essential Guide For Beginners To Use Their Cricut Maker With Simple Projects (Hardcover):... Cricut Maker 2 Books In 1 - The Essential Guide For Beginners To Use Their Cricut Maker With Simple Projects (Hardcover)
Sienna Tally
R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Necessity of Artspeak - The Language of Arts in the Western Tradition (Hardcover): Roy Harris Necessity of Artspeak - The Language of Arts in the Western Tradition (Hardcover)
Roy Harris
R7,842 Discovery Miles 78 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Are contemporary art theorists and critics speaking a language that has lost its meaning? Is it still based on concepts and values that are long out of date? Does anyone know what the function of the arts is in modern society?Roy Harris breaks new ground with his linguistic approach to the key issues. He situates those issues within the long-running debate about the arts and their place in society which goes back to the Classical period in ancient Greece. Contributors to the debate included some of the most celebrated artists and philosophers of their day--Plato, Aristotle, Leonardo, Kant, Hegel, Wagner, Baudelaire, Zola, Delacroix--but none of these eminent figures or their supporters provided a reasoned overview examining the multilingual development of Western artspeak as a whole. Nor did they develop any explicit account of the relationship between the arts and language.The Necessity of Artspeak shows for the first time that what have usually been considered problems of aesthetics and artistic justification often have their source in the linguistic assumptions underlying the terms and arguments presented. It also shows how artspeak has been--and continues to be--manipulated to serve the interests of particular social groups and agendas. Until the semantics of artspeak is more widely understood, the public will continue to be taken in by the latest fads and fashions that propagandists of the art world promote.

The Fetish - Literature, Cinema, Visual Art (Hardcover): Massimo Fusillo The Fetish - Literature, Cinema, Visual Art (Hardcover)
Massimo Fusillo
R3,889 Discovery Miles 38 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist approach with theoretical speculation, Massimo Fusillo identifies a few interpretive patterns of object fetishism, such as seduction (from Apollonius of Rhodes to Max Ophuls), memory activation (from Goethe to Louise Bourgeois and Pamuk), and the topos of the animation of the inanimate. Whereas all these patterns are characterized by a projection of emotional values onto objects, modernism highlights a more latent component of object fetishism: the fascination with the alterity of matter, variously inflected by Proust, Woolf, Joyce, Barnes, and Mann. The last turning point in Fusillo's analysis is postmodernism and its obsession with mass media icons-from DeLillo's maximalist frescos and Zadie Smith's reflections on autographs to Palahniuk's porn objects; from pop art to commodity sculpture.

The Art of Cruelty - A Reckoning (Paperback): Maggie Nelson The Art of Cruelty - A Reckoning (Paperback)
Maggie Nelson
R456 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Maggie Nelson has established herself as one of our foremost cultural critics in this landmark work about representations of violence in art. An important and frequently surprising book . . . could be read as the foundation for a post-avant-garde aesthetics. ?. . . Nelson, who is also a poet, is such a graceful writer that ?I . . . just sat back and enjoyed the show. Laura Kipnis, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Nelson s] critiques of individual artists are delightfully fierce without being mean spirited. . . . Fascinating and bracingly intelligent. . . . The Art of Cruelty s prose is often gorgeous. Troy Jollimore, Boston Globe A lean-forward experience, and in its most transcendent moments, reading it can feel like having the best conversation of your life. Rachel Syme, NPR Books I hope that critics, and aspiring critics, and those who are interested in the relationship between art and ethics, read The Art of Cruelty]. Susie Linfield, New Republic/The Book"

Modern Japanese Aesthetics - A Reader (Hardcover, Revised ed.): Michele Marra Modern Japanese Aesthetics - A Reader (Hardcover, Revised ed.)
Michele Marra
R2,541 Discovery Miles 25 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This text provides coverage of the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to modern day. In addition to the historical information and discussion of aesthetic issues that appear in the introductions to each of the chapters, the book presents English translations of otherwise inaccessible major works on Japanese aesthetics, beginning with a complete and annotated translation of the first work in the field, Nishi Amane's ""Bimyogaku Setsu"" (""The Theory of Aesthetics""). The text is divided into four sections: the subject of aesthetics; aesthetic categories; poetic expression; postmodernism; and aesthetics. It examines the momentous efforts made by Japanese thinkers to master, assimilate and originally transform Western philosophical systems to discuss their own literary and artistic heritage.

Misleading Epiphenomena (Paperback): Steve Putton, Steve Swindells, Barbara Penner Misleading Epiphenomena (Paperback)
Steve Putton, Steve Swindells, Barbara Penner; Edited by Ben Hillwood - Harris, Sharon Kivland
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sun-Shine, Moonshine (Paperback): Sanderson Conroy, Gabriel Gbadamosi Sun-Shine, Moonshine (Paperback)
Sanderson Conroy, Gabriel Gbadamosi; Edited by Ben Hillwood - Harris, Sharon Kivland
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mobile Cinema (Paperback): Romana Schmalisch Mobile Cinema (Paperback)
Romana Schmalisch
R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Modernist Patterns - in Literature and the Visual Arts (Hardcover): M. Roston Modernist Patterns - in Literature and the Visual Arts (Hardcover)
M. Roston
R1,535 Discovery Miles 15 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this study, the author explores how Conrad, T.S. Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Hemingway, Huxley and others responded to the immediate challenges of their time, to the implications of Freudian psychology, molecular theory, relativist theory, and the general weakening of religious faith. Assuming that artists and writers, in coping with those problems, would develop techniques in many ways comparable, even where there was no direct contact, he positions modernist literature within the context of contemporary painting, architecture and sculpture, thereby providing some interesting insights into the nature of the literary works themselves.

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity (Hardcover): Iain D. Thomson Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity (Hardcover)
Iain D. Thomson
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking readings of Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art and his notoriously difficult Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), this book explains precisely what postmodernity meant for Heidegger, the greatest philosophical critic of modernity, and what it could still mean for us today. Exploring these issues, Iain D. Thomson examines several postmodern works of art, including music, literature, painting, and even comic books, from a post-Heideggerian perspective. Clearly written and accessible, this book will help readers gain a deeper understanding of Heidegger and his relation to postmodern theory, popular culture, and art.

Cricut Maker Ideas! - Simple Ideas For Making Fantastic Projects With Your Cricut Maker (Hardcover): Sienna Tally Cricut Maker Ideas! - Simple Ideas For Making Fantastic Projects With Your Cricut Maker (Hardcover)
Sienna Tally
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Artwords - A Glossary of Contemporary Art Theory (Hardcover, New): Jennifer McLerran, Thomas Patin Artwords - A Glossary of Contemporary Art Theory (Hardcover, New)
Jennifer McLerran, Thomas Patin
R3,439 Discovery Miles 34 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Defining over 400 terms and phrases that have recently entered discourse on the visual arts, this is the first reference book specializing in explaining and applying theoretical terminology in contemporary art. Since the early 1970s, the vocabulary used to discuss visual art has expanded radically, leaving many teachers, students, artists, and critics without the accurate definitions necessary for fruitful discourse on contemporary culture. This glossary not only serves as a dictionary but as a guide to current theory and criticism of visual art and culture. Terms can be accessed alphabetically or thematically; the significant cross referencing makes this an easy dictionary to use.

Many contemporary art terms have been borrowed from other disciplines or are traditionally employed in the visual arts but have been adapted for use in the contemporary art world and have therefore been assigned specific or specialized applications. These loan terms have increased the likelihood for confusion between old and new definitions, so where possible the authors have applied the terms to works of art or some aspect of visual culture. Most art glossaries and dictionaries concentrate primarily on artistic production in the visual arts--movements, styles, and names. As a complement to these types of works, this glossary of theoretical terms is essential for anyone studying contemporary visual arts and visual culture in general.

Visual Arts Research - A Handbook (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Elizabet Pollard Visual Arts Research - A Handbook (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Elizabet Pollard
R1,364 Discovery Miles 13 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society (Hardcover): R. Howells, A. Ritivoi, J. Schachter Outrage: Art, Controversy, and Society (Hardcover)
R. Howells, A. Ritivoi, J. Schachter
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all - power.

Aby Warburg and Anti-semitism - Political Perspectives on Images and Culture (Hardcover): Charlotte Schoell-Glass Aby Warburg and Anti-semitism - Political Perspectives on Images and Culture (Hardcover)
Charlotte Schoell-Glass
R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a landmark study on Aby Warburg's life and work, translated into English.In ""Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism"", Charlotte Schoell-Glass provides an unprecedented look at the life and writings of cultural critic Aby Warburg through the prism of Warburg's little-known political views. Schoell-Glass argues provocatively based on archival research that Warburg's work and teachings developed as a reaction to the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, which he saw as a threat to classical education and university scholarship. Translated into English for the first time, ""Aby Warburg and Anti-Semitism"" sheds much needed light on Warburg's views on Judaism and the politics of his time.Aby Warburg, scion of a well-known Jewish banking family in Hamburg, sacrificed his birthright to pursue a career as a private scholar. As an independent art historian, he devoted himself almost exclusively to reinterpreting the revival of antiquity within the Renaissance, urging other art historians to approach their work as a brand of the larger study of image making and philosophy. In this study, Schoell-Glass examines Warburg's most influential essays on Durer, Rembrandt, and the Sassetti Chapel and his most innovative concepts - the accessories of motion, the pathos formula, and the afterlife of antiquity - to illustrate how Warburg persistently showed a deep concern over a disappointing and unstable outside world within his own work. Schoell-Glass shows how Warburg attempts to make a response to anti-Semitism the only way he knew how, despite his awareness of the diminishing societal relevance of that response.From this study of Warburg, Schoell-Glass produces a multilayered case study of the encounter between twentieth-century politics and scholarship. Art historians, German historians, and scholars of Jewish studies and cultural studies will be grateful for this volume.

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Faisal Alqasimi
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
How To Draw Buildings and Towns - Guide for Kids Ages 10 and Up - Tips for creating your own unique drawings of houses, streets... How To Draw Buildings and Towns - Guide for Kids Ages 10 and Up - Tips for creating your own unique drawings of houses, streets and cities. (Hardcover)
Anna Nadler
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Art and Mathematics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Kristof Fenyvesi, Tuuli Lahdesmaki Aesthetics of Interdisciplinarity: Art and Mathematics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Kristof Fenyvesi, Tuuli Lahdesmaki
R3,632 Discovery Miles 36 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This anthology fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between the mathematical and artistic approaches in the field where mathematical and artistic thinking and practice merge. The articles included highlight the most significant current ideas and phenomena, providing a multifaceted and extensive snapshot of the field and indicating how interdisciplinary approaches are applied in the research of various cultural and artistic phenomena. The discussions are related, for example, to the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, art history, art theory, artistic practice, cultural studies, ethno-mathematics, geometry, mathematics, new physics, philosophy, physics, study of visual illusions, and symmetry studies. Further, the book introduces a new concept: the interdisciplinary aesthetics of mathematical art, which the editors use to explain the manifold nature of the aesthetic principles intertwined in these discussions.

Integrating Art into the Inclusive Early Childhood Curriculum (Hardcover): Carol L Russell Integrating Art into the Inclusive Early Childhood Curriculum (Hardcover)
Carol L Russell
R1,913 R1,556 Discovery Miles 15 560 Save R357 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Hardcover): Arindam Chakrabarti The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (Hardcover)
Arindam Chakrabarti
R6,317 Discovery Miles 63 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative philosophy. Beginning with a philosophical reconstruction of the classical rasa aesthetics, chapters range from the nature of art-emotions, tones of thinking, and aesthetic education to issues in film-theory and problems of the past versus present. As well as discussing indigenous versus foreign in aesthetic practices, this volume covers North and South Indian performance practices and theories, alongside recent and new themes including the Gandhian aesthetics of surrender and self-control and the aesthetics of touch in the light of the politics of untouchability. With such unparalleled and authoritative coverage, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art represents a dynamic map of comparative cross-cultural aesthetics. Bringing together original philosophical research from renowned thinkers, it makes a major contribution to both Eastern and Western contemporary aesthetics.

What Good Are the Arts? (Hardcover): John Carey What Good Are the Arts? (Hardcover)
John Carey
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hailed as "exhilarating and suggestive" (Spectator), "thought-provoking and entertaining" (David Lodge, Sunday Times), and "incisive and inspirational" (Guardian), What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the nature of art. John Carey--one of Britain's most respected literary critics--here cuts through the cant surrounding the fine arts, debunking claims that the arts make us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than personal opinion. But Carey does argue strongly for the value of art as an activity and for the superiority of one art in particular: literature. Literature, he contends, is the only art capable of reasoning, and the only art that can criticize. Literature has the ability to inspire the mind and the heart towards practical ends far better than any work of conceptual art. Here then is a lively and stimulating invitation to debate the value of art, a provocative book that "anyone seriously interested in the arts should read" (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post).

Seeing the Invisible - On Kandinsky (Hardcover, New): Michel Henry Seeing the Invisible - On Kandinsky (Hardcover, New)
Michel Henry; Translated by Scott Davidson
R4,562 Discovery Miles 45 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a unique, philosophical interpretation of a significant twentieth-century painter - Wassily Kandinsky. Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy develops a conception of life as an immediate feeling of one's own living."Seeing the Invisible" marks Henry's most sustained engagement in the field of aesthetics. Through an analysis of the life and works of Wassily Kandinsky, Henry uncovers the philosophical significance of Kandinsky's revolution in painting: that abstract art reveals the invisible essence of life. Henry shows that Kandinsky separates colour and line from the constraints of visible form and, in so doing, conveys the invisible intensity of life - a force rooted in the corporeity and pathos of all living beings. More than just a study of art history, this book presents Kandinsky as an artist who is engaged in the project of painting the invisible and thus offers invaluable methodological clues for Henry's own phenomenology of the invisible.

How to Use Your Mind (Hardcover): Harry Dexter Kitson How to Use Your Mind (Hardcover)
Harry Dexter Kitson
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting (Hardcover, New): Jason C. Kuo Perspectives on Connoisseurship of Chinese Painting (Hardcover, New)
Jason C. Kuo
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The aims of this volume are to reflect on the fundamental issues in the theory and practice of connoisseurship of Chinese painting in particular and those of connoisseurship of art in general. One of the most important challenges facing art historians and museum professionals today is that graduate schools have produced art historians with serious weakness, particularly a lack of direct firsthand experience with works of art in the original. If we base our construction of art history on works of calligraphy and painting and on the inscriptions, colophons, and seal impressions that accompany them, we must first make sure of their authorship and identity. "This fascinating book, the first one in which connoisseurship in Chinese painting and in European painting are discussed together, enables us not only to confront several approaches in the authentication of Chinese painting, but also to benefit from the Western art studies in connoisseurial analysis and the complex nature of copywork." -Michele Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, formerly Curator of Far Eastern Art of the Musee Guimet, Paris, currently Directeur d'etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, author of La Civilisation du Royaume de Dian a l'epoque Han, La Chine des Han: histoire et civilization, Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766): Peintre et Architecte a la Cour de Chine, and editor of Storia Universale dell'Arte: La Cina. "These thoughtful essays, addressing a range of historical, cultural, and philosophical issues, should remind all of us that the objectness of objects is the starting point from which all else follows." -Peter Sturman, Chair, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Mi Fu: Style and the Art of Calligraphy in Northern Song China. "Connoisseurship is the most fundamental yet often overlooked aspect of art history: it has the ability to affirm or completely change our understanding of an art work, the artist's oeuvre, or even art history itself. This volume is the first extensive investigation of Chinese connoisseurship as a general and theoretical discipline." -Pauline Lin, Bryn Mawr College, has published articles in The Review of Politics and Dictionary of Literary Biography: Classical Chinese Writers and is working on a book, Nature Inside Out: The Culture of Landscape from the City of Ye (196-240). "Connoisseurship is the necessary base of art history, for until we know who made what when, we cannot engage in interpretation of paintings. Bringing together scholars from diverse backgrounds, this volume provides the necessary basis for the most important task facing art historians today, the creation of a true world art history." - David Carrier, Champney Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Institute of Art and author of Sean Scully, Museum Skepticism: A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries, and A World Art History.

Democracy and the Arts - The Role of Participation (Hardcover, New): Terri Lynn Cornwell Democracy and the Arts - The Role of Participation (Hardcover, New)
Terri Lynn Cornwell
R2,774 Discovery Miles 27 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This definitive text explores the complex relationship between participation in the arts and participation in politics in America. It traces the American perspective on the arts through the evolution of democratic theory and the historical link with participation in the arts. The author suggests that the arts and humanities are essential for preserving the human elements of our society, and and for enriching the quality of human life. Democracy can be capable of fostering works of artistic excellence, as well as capable of creating broad-based audiences for such works. How the arts affect a political system is explored, along with the question of whether a political system can be beneficial or detrimental to the arts. This study provides a model for the creation of an American society in which the artistic community reinforces the skills of participation for a maximum number of citizens, helping to build a stronger participatory society.

"Democracy and the ArtS" gives a brief overview of specific theories of democracy and promotes discussion of the concepts of active and passive participation. The examination of the interrelationship of the arts and politics is demonstrated through three specific historical periods. Ancient Greece is seen as a pure example of a democratic political system where the arts flourished. The Jacksonian era is viewed as the purest American example of democracy, yet the performing arts did not flourish. The arts and politics in twentieth-century America are analyzed. Political science and arts management students, as well as arts advocates, will find that this text provides a clear picture of participation in the arts and politics in America.

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