Books

16 results found

Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Invention by Design	Henry Petroski	This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world …	OL112178W
Het boze oog	Gerrit Komrij	Polemische artikelen over uitingen van reclame en architectuur.	OL15269273W
Renegade Poetics	Evie Shockley	Beginning with a deceptively simple question—What do we mean when we designate behaviors, values, or forms of expression as “black”?—Evie Shockley’s <em>Renegade Poetics</em> separates what we think …	OL15916935W
Survival of the beautiful	David Rothenberg	"Survival of the Beautiful is a revolutionary new examination of the role that art and culture play in nature and the evolutionary process. Taking his inspiration from Charles Darwin's observation th…	OL15936415W
Believing is seeing	Errol Morris	"Academy Award-wining filmmaker Errol Morris investigates the hidden truths behind a series of documentary photographs. In Believing Is Seeing Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris turns his ey…	OL16652090W
Art and Knowledge	Young, James O.	This is an interesting, as well as controversial, exploration of what art is and why it is valuable. Young reflects on the essence of art and argues that it provides insight into human nature. This t…	OL16989715W
Xin bian yi shu gai lun	Liang jiu	Ben shu zhe yan yu 21 shi ji,Bing jie he xi fang de yi shu wen hua,Chan shu le yi shu gai lun de chen shu bei jing yu yi shu xue, yi shu gai lun ji qi yan jiu dui xiang he fang fa, yi shu gai lun de …	OL20525924W
Karl Rahner's theological aesthetics	Peter Joseph Fritz	"This innovative book discloses Karl Rahner's foremost achievement: discovering and delineating an ethos of Catholicism, a multifaceted and comprehensive approach to the life in Christ. Karl Rahner's…	OL20957746W
Art and rhetoric in Roman culture	Jaś Elsner	"Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and C…	OL20957900W
Realisation	Julian Spalding	JULIAN SPALDING'S books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize) and The Best Art You've Never Seen. He was formerly Director of Ar…	OL20982856W
Art and freedom	E. E. Sleinis	"Art and Freedom asserts that the fundamental point of the enterprise of art is the creation and delivery of values that are not singularly available in the nonart world. E. E. Sleinis argues that as…	OL3951709W
The beauty of the infinite	David Bentley Hart	The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above …	OL5848499W
The rescue of Romanticism	Kenneth Daley	"Valuable and timely in its long historical and critical perspective on the legacy of romanticism to Victorian art and thought, The Rescue of Romanticism is the first book-length study of the close i…	OL6209472W
Jonathan Edwards, art and the sense of the heart	Terrence Erdt	Jonathan Edwards has long been accorded a place in the front rank of colonial American writers; his aesthetics are now recognized as the primary characteristic of his theology; and his writings are j…	OL6322337W
Trattato della pittura	Leonardo da Vinci	This is the first pocket-sized edition of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. The editor was a print maker who owned a print shop and saw the market for an affordable edition that would appeal …	OL695359W
Philosophy of Art	Noël Carroll	Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students studying philosophical aesthetics. It introduces the techniques of analytic philosophy, as well as key topics such as the representational t…	OL8093666W