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In this original work on aesthetics, philosopher John Dilworth offers an unusual theory of the nature of artworks. "The Double Content" (DC) view is the first comprehensive theory of art that is able to satisfactorily explain the nature of all kinds of...

When viewing the picture of a beautiful sunset, how many of us realise that, while we admire it as a work of art, we have just taken the very first step toward pornography? And that both the beauty in the sunset and the senses that recognise such beauty...

Moshe Barasch, an authority on art theory, tackles the complex question of how art works as language. Barasch shows how, once an art work is seen and understood, a new, communicative function is effectively added to the work. In an engaging style Barasch...

This illustrated volume explores the eroticisation of death in the literature, art, and music of the 19th century and the popular culture of our time. Death was the natural enemy of love in the arts of the West until the late 18th century. Then the two...

This illustrated volume explores the eroticisation of death in the literature, art, and music of the 19th century and the popular culture of our time. Death was the natural enemy of love in the arts of the West until the late 18th century. Then the two...

This is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture,...

This is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture,...

This is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture,...

This collection examines the complex intersection where art and philosophy merge. The topics for discussion include the criticism of Robert Wolfe, the minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, the metaphysics of photography, the paintings of Jackson Pollock,...

Brings together essays on literature, the plastic arts, theater, and music, which stand with the best of modern criticism.

Brings together essays on literature, the plastic arts, theater, and music, which stand with the best of modern criticism.

AftYer a long period of comparative neglect, starting almost immediately upon his death in 1900, John Ruskin began to attract, from the 1960s onwards, a remarkable degree of critical interest. Although the formidably ample Library Edition of Ruskin's...

Temporal Experiments uses literature, music, and visual art to think through the subtle workings of time in our intellectual and pragmatic lives. The book is an investigation of the tactile figures in which time is embodied, and of the role these figures...

This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations, aesthetics, and politics in the context of...