Philosophy: Aesthetics

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

This edited collection explores the complex ways in which photography is used and interpreted: as a record of evidence, as a form of communication,...

Phenomenology was one of the twentieth centurys major philosophical movements, and it continues to be a vibrant and widely studied subject today wi...

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style ap...

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary devic...

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary devic...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Jacques Ranciere has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthetic distributions of the sensible, wh...

In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruin...

Reading Architecture with Freud and Lacan: Shadowing the Public Realm methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading the...

Aesthetic judgements that are formed on the basis of testimony are commonly held to be defective, illegitimate, or otherwise problematic. This book...

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally d...

Analysis of the Traditional Chinese Garden is a seminal resource for the spatial principles and techniques that shape traditional Chinese gardens. ...

The visual arts have long been held to have an intimate link with emotions. Despite this, the topic remains underexplored; when the expression of e...

The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deco...

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They al...

The Scottish poet Kenneth White and the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas came together by chance when Malpas heard an interview with White on ABC...

Discover Spinoza's philosophy of ratio, from geometry and reason to bodies, affects and architectureFrom his geometrical method to his geometrical ...

This book analyses how modern conceptions of ethics, psychoanalysis and aesthetics are linked through the question of pain. Through a series of rig...

This book is a collection of insightful writings on aesthetics and Chinese and Western art by ZONG Baihua, one of the most esteemed scholars of aes...