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The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
By: Prose, Francine
Published by: HarperCollins US

In a brilliant, wry, and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process. There is no ideal muse, but rather as many variations on the theme as there are individual women who have had the luck, or misfortune, to find their destiny conjoined with that of a particular artist ... more...

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The Aesthetic Field: A Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
By: Berleant, Arnold
Published by: Cybereditions

Arguing that traditional answers to the question “What is art?” are partial at best, Arnold Berleant contends that we need to understand art as a complex aesthetic field encompassing all the factors that form the context and experience of art. more...

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Art and Liberation
By: Marcuse, Herbert; Kellner, Douglas (ed.)
Published by: Routledge

This collection explores a previously neglected area of study – the role of art in Marcuse’s work. Presenting a wealth of published and unpublished material, it is essential reading not only for those new to Marcuse, but also for specialists. more...

Price: $90.00

Art and Social Change
By: Turner, Caroline (ed.)
Published by: Pandanus Books

An illustrated survey of contemporary art in the Asia Pacific. Art and Social Change maps the dynamic development in art, often reflecting social and political events. It includes essays on India, China, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan. more...

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Art and the Performance of Memory
By: Cándida Smith, Richard
Published by: Routledge

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. The essays highlight the role of oral history in the documentation of the visual and performing arts. more...

Price: $150.00

Art, Technology, Consciousness
By: Ascott, Roy (ed.)
Published by: Intellect

Within a technological context, this volume addresses contemporary theories of consciousness, subjective experience, the creation of meaning and emotion, and relationships between cognition and location. Its focus is both on and beyond the digital culture, seeking to assimilate new ideas emanating from the physical sciences as well as embracing spiritual and artistic aspects of human experience. Developing on the studies published in Roy Ascott's successful Reframing Consciousness, the book documents the very latest work from those connected with the internationally acclaimed CAiiA-STAR centre and its conferences. Their artistic and theoretical research in new media and art includes aspects of: more...

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The Concept of Criticism
By: Sparshott, Francis
Published by: Cybereditions

In The Concept of Criticism , Sparshott gives an elegant account of his view that the idea of performance is central to the place of criticism in the life of the arts. Applied to the arts in general, performance retains the notion that art is characterized by intentionality without applying to it the kinds of strictures we would apply to the products and doings of ordinary moral agents. Applied to criticism, performance best identifies the manner in which the critic gives grounds for the evaluation of a work of art, without necessarily directly evaluating it. Criticism, in short, is one performance about another performance. more...

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Introducing Lyotard
By: Readings, Bill
Published by: Routledge

The first truly introductory text on Lyotard, this book situates Lyotard's interventions in the postmodern debate in the wider context of his rethinking of the politics of representation. more...

Price: $37.95

Philosophy of Art
By: Carroll, Noël
Published by: Routledge

Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, introducing the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this area. more...

Price: $35.95

Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction
By: Carroll, Noël
Published by: Routledge

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 theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art and historical approaches to the nature of art. Throughout the book, abstract philosophical theories are illustrated by examples of both traditional and contemporary art, enriching the reader's understanding of art theory as well as the appreciation of art. more...

Price: $16.49

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