Philosophy: Aesthetics

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines Ruskin's varied roles in education,...

Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common gro...

This book is an anthology of small texts chosen from a sequence of significant writers whose work fell between the Renaissance and the later sevent...

Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another 'ism.' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp'...

This book is the first collection of essays to offer detailed examinations of the role that close attention to individual films plays in the philos...

Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particu...

The highly practical lessons in How to Get to Great Ideas are based on neuroscience, psychology and sociology. Written by former advertising creati...

Ernst Cassirers philosophy of culture has been much discussed in recent years. However, it remains unclear how it evolved from his older theory of ...

2019 witnessed the 30th anniversary of the German reunification. But the remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall coincided with another event o...

A rediscovery of Thoreaus interactions with everyday objects and how they shaped his thought.   Though we may associate Henry David Thoreau with as...

The human body is the primary instrument of war, yet those waging war often confront soldiers' bodies in a detached or merely intellectual way. In ...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the f...

Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwa...

Through a series of essays, Art and Ethical Criticism explores the complex relationship between the arts and morality. Reflects the importance of...

This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinki...

Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection o...

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Followi...

Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, suc...

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into...

Cinema as an aesthetic construct exists in a specific historical and political context, reflecting the society and its aesthetic values. Visual rep...