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A Grand Materialism in the New Art from China
Material matters in new Chinese art, which presents its subjects through the directness and immediacy of its material. This book applies theories by Osborne and Danto to new Chinese art to show how artists are working below the level of language to make each work of art prove that it is art.
ISBN-13: 9781498596909 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Mary Bittner Wiseman
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Local release date: 29/10/2020
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Categories: Oriental art [ACBP]Asian history [HBJF]Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]

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Judgments of Beauty in Theory Evaluation
In Judgments of Beauty in Theory Evaluation, the author argues that judgments of beauty are a justified part of theory evaluation. This argument bears on the debate over judgments of beauty in scientific theory evaluation and also prompts an examination of judgments of beauty in philosophical theory evaluation.
ISBN-13: 9781498597173 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Devon Brickhouse-Bryson
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Local release date: 31/07/2020
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Categories: Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]Algebra [PBF]Applied mathematics [PBW]Physics [PH]

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Beyond the Aesthetic and the Anti-Aesthetic
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series, and the seminars on which they are based, brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another's work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and "unpredictable conversation" on knotty and provocative issues about art. This ......
ISBN-13: 9780271060729 (Hardback)
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
James Elkins, Harper Montgomery
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Local release date: 18/11/2013
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Categories: Theory of art [ABA]Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 [ACXD]Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]

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Aesthetics as Secular Millennialism
Its Trail from Baumgarten and Kant to Walt Disney and Hitler
The concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but essentially millennialist, focused on the achievement of a universal world order. The question of ......
ISBN-13: 9781611484748 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Benjamin Bennett
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Local release date: 04/01/2013
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Categories: European history [HBJD]Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]Russia [1DVUA]

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Art and Philosophy
Offers a look at the history, ethics, and aesthetics of art from the perspective of the specific philosophical concepts of transcendence, metaphysics, subjectivity, and conditionality. This volume questions many philosophical concepts used to justify art, and views their meaning within the perspective of philosophical development.
ISBN-13: 9780879758653 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Timothy Taubes
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Local release date: 01/12/1993
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Categories: History of art / art & design styles [AC]Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]

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Esthetics Contemporary
Includes fourteen selections from respected authorities on literature, dance, the visual arts, theatre, music, cinema, and architecture. This book captures the diversity of our changing views of art while at the same time discloses its variegated influence on the contemporary art scene.
ISBN-13: 9780879754808 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Richard Kostelanetz
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Local release date: 30/12/1989
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Categories: Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]

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Art, Beauty, and Pornography
Making a radical departure from the conventional wisdom on art and beauty, this book presents the thesis that things of beauty are not only unrelated to art but often responsible for pornography.
ISBN-13: 9780879753979 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Jon Huer
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Local release date: 01/04/1987
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Categories: Theory of art [ABA]Philosophy: aesthetics [HPN]