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Der vorliegende Text versucht im Binnenkreis der Moderne erneut Grabungen vorzunehmen. So werden zunächst elementare Aspekte zur Entstehung der Moderne skizziert, um dann im expressiven Einzugsbereich von Kasimir Malewitsch, Joseph Beuys und Imi Knoebel - um die Achse eines kons…
Why, and in what manner, did artist Paul Klee have such a significant impact on twentieth-century thinkers? His art and writing inspired leading philosophers to produce key texts in twentieth-century aesthetics, texts that influenced subsequent art history and criticism. Heideg…
This is a comprehensive, integrated account of eighteenth and early nineteenth century German figurative aesthetics. The author focuses on the theologically-minded discourse on the visual arts that unfolded in Germany, circa 1754-1828, to critique the assumption that German roma…
"Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the auth…
For centuries portraits have been one of the most important art forms. But what do they tell us? What do they mean? And what makes a picture into a portrait? --dust jacket.
Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic…
"Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and su…