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.
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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…
Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing relationship with the world around us.
Jean Baudrillard has been an intellectual voice in many of the key debates & issues facing an increasingly media-driven world. 'Baudrillard Reframed' offers the arts student & others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments.
Celui qui voit ne sait pas voir : telle est la présupposition qui traverse notre histoire, de la caverne platonicienne à la dénonciation de la société du spectacle. Elle est commune au philosophe qui veut que chacun se tienne à sa place et aux révolutionnaires qui veulent arrach…
Design and aesthetics: a reader
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