Author: Paul Crowther

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovat...

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the diffe...

In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism (Clarendon Press, 1993) Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to h...

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a criti...

The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a criti...

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as ...

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawi...

Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul...

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapti...

In recent years Kant's aesthetic theory has been the subject of a widespread revival of interest amongst English-speaking philosophers. This reviva...

This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapti...

Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul...

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawi...

In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about postmodernism. He addresses such...

In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to humanize. In Art and Embo...

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aestheti...

This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as ...

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aestheti...

Recent theory has tended to understand the meaning of art primarily as a function of original contexts of production and reception or in its relati...

Contemporary discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions. Few studies come close to answering why pictures and sculptures f...

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understan...

Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understan...

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovat...