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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Kybernetischer Realismus Kybernetischer Realismus Alban Nikolai Herbst Drei Vorlesungen, die Alban Nikolai Herbst auf seiner Poetik-Professur in Heidelberg gab. OL15908331W
Plato's ghost Plato's ghost Jeremy J. Gray Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description. OL16961582W
Kant and the ends of aesthetics Kant and the ends of aesthetics Gary Banham This work presents a rethinking of critical philosophy through the recovery of a larger sense of aesthetics in Kant. It provides a unitary reading of the "Critique of Judgement". This is situated in … OL16984248W
Chinese Surplus Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich In CHINESE SURPLUS Ari Heinrich dissects the figure of the medically or artistically commodified body in Chinese culture and popular science. Providing a history of how bodies have been thought and s… OL20183526W
Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman Neal Benezra,Bruce Nauman,Anna Dezeuze,Paul Schimmel,Johanna Drucker,Dörte Zbikowski,Ellen Heider,Retro Krüger,Götz Adriani,Kathy Halbreich "One of America's most important artists, Bruce Nauman has worked in a dazzling variety of media since the mid-1960s: sculpture, photography, performance, installation art, sound, holography, film, a… OL2144697W
Ruin memories Ruin memories Bjørnar Olsen "Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant… OL23325834W
Graffiti Graffiti Johannes Stahl Spätestens seit den Tagen von Pompei gehören Wandbeschriftungen und Wandzeichnungen zu den verbreiteten Ausdrucksformen des menschlichen Alltags. Obwohl sie in Gemälden und Kunsttheorie seit der Rena… OL4189054W
Art & its time Art & its time Paul Mattick Paul Mattick explores many of the ideas that surrround art today including Modernism, the sublime and beautiful, the relationship between art and money and particularly philanthropy in the US, the ro… OL4377184W
The problem of free harmony in Kant's aesthetics The problem of free harmony in Kant's aesthetics Kenneth F. Rogerson "In this book, Kenneth F. Rogerson explores the first half of Kant's Critique of Judgment, entitled the "Critique of Aesthetic Judgment." Rogerson provides an interpretation of arguably the most impo… OL5268771W
Jonathan Edwards, art and the sense of the heart 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
Crisis and Repetition Crisis and Repetition Kate Armstrong ix, 114 p. : 23 cm OL8681448W
The lamp of marvels The lamp of marvels Ramón del Valle-Inclán The Lamp of Marvels is a treatise on the ways in which Ramón del Valle-Inclán gained the knowledge (Gnosis) that led to the formulation of his aesthetic. It is the most crucial work in assessing the … OL943865W
Morir de glamour Morir de glamour Boris Izaguirre Con una prosa magnífica, divertida y rigurosa, Boris Izaguirre rompe una lanza a favor de la actitud transgresora y libertaria del verdadero glamour. Morir de glamour no sólo es una crónica desternil… OL976590W