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An updated version of the classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the... [ More...]
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The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned... [ More...]
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From Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to provocative dung-splattered madonnas, in today's art world many strange, even shocking, things are put on display. This often leads exasperated viewers to exclaim—is this really art? In this invaluable primer on... [ More...]
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Berger continues his exploration of the relationship between experience and expression, delivering a book of dazzling, inventive, and, ultimately, deeply moving impressions of how stories embedded in visual art provide readers with the impetus to see and... [ More...]
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Classic, influential study of Greek tragedy.
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"With exemplary clarity, Elaine Scarry argues that admiring the beautiful is nothing to be ashamed of; that on the contrary beauty fosters the spirit of justice. A brave and timely book."—J.M.Coetzee "Here is a writer almost magically summoning up... [ More...]
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Aiming to rethink the relation between art and politics, this title seeks to reclaim aesthetics from its contemporary narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. It ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of... [ More...]
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Building on recent advances in the reconstruction of the charred papyri of Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 B.C.) excavated from the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum, this volume presents eleven new chapters in the history of literary criticism in... [ More...]
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