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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The nude	Pavel Machotka	xv, 322 p. : ill. ; 27 cm	OL115254W
Nominalism and its aftermath	Dena Shottenkirk	"Nelson Goodman's disparate writings are often written about only within their own particular discipline, such that the epistemology is discussed in contrast to others' epistemology, the aesthetics i…	OL13845607W
The Raven and The Philosophy of Composition	Edgar Allan Poe	Contains: [Raven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41081W) Philosophy of Composition	OL14938083W
Vertigine della lista	Umberto Eco	Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Companion to the author's History of beauty and O…	OL15087233W
Makings of the Sea	John Baldacchino	In Thodor Angelopoulos’s Ulysses’s Gaze it is poetically claimed that God’s first creation was the journey after which came doubt and nostalgia. Anyone who knows the Mediterranean will recognise th…	OL15193444W
Style, gender, and fantasy in nineteenth-century American women's writing	Dorri Beam	"Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of …	OL15537055W
Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit	Walter Benjamin	One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedl…	OL156203W
Aesthetic theory and the video game	Graeme Kirkpatrick	vii, 247 p : 21 cm	OL16416903W
Man between earth and sky	Louis O. Roberts	"This book embodies one person's life of creativity and the pursuit of a vision -- in this case an architectural vision. Years of teaching have allowed the author to observe that we all have the powe…	OL18573085W
Dialogues II	Claire Parnet,Gilles Deleuze	"Gilles Deleuze examines his philosophical pluralism in a series of discussions with Claire Parnet. Conversational in tone, this is the most personable and accessible of all Deleuze's writings, in wh…	OL19163116W
Bread	Scott Cutler Shershow	"Explores bread as both everyday object and as an object that has been invested throughout history with symbolic power and an astonishing variety of social, cultural and figural meanings"--	OL20044192W
William Blake	Bethan Stevens	"Blake is acclaimed as one of the greatest poets and artists; he is also a fascinating figure in English history. He devised a unique method of self-publishing that combined written text and illustra…	OL20891496W
The sensuous cinema of Wong Kar-Wai	Gary Bettinson	The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how f…	OL22923768W
What Is Art?	Tiziana Andina	88 pages ; 24 cm	OL25873255W
Chroniques subjectives du cinéma contemporain	Thomas Roussot	Ce recueil de chroniques est né d'une frustration : n'avoir le plus souvent comme alternative que le choix entre des chroniques de cinéphiles, partiales et orientées, tantôt techniques et théoriques,…	OL28173384W
Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette (Texts & Documents)	Giovanni Battista Piranesi	"The engraver and designer Giovanni Battista Piranesi published this lively three-part defense of Roman architectural "invention" in 1765, just as the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Gree…	OL2827088W
Le montreur d'ombre	J. Aumont	Héritier des procédés photographiques, c'est d'abord la lumière qui semble s'imposer dans le cinéma. De la lumière, il en faut pour capter et enregistrer l'image, puis pour la projeter. N'est-il donc…	OL32221872W
The murder of art	Thomas Crombez	The murder of art. It sounds like the title of a thriller. That is exactly what the history of aesthetics is. Western philosophical tradition begins with a condemnation of art. The Greek philosopher …	OL32767796W
Quaker aesthetics	Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner	"In early America, Quakers dominated the political and social landscape of the Delaware Valley, and, because this region held a position of political and economic strength, the Quakers were tightly c…	OL3949227W
Im Gespräch mit Georg Lukács	Hauser, Arnold	136 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : 18 cm	OL5107238W