Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture; Aesthetics, Semantics and Function by Annette Haug, Adrian Hielscher
English | PDF | 2022 | 296 Pages | ISBN : 3110762900 | 7 MB

Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: The Analytic Tradition, An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies), 2nd Edition edited by Peter Lamarque, Stein Haugom Olsen
English | December 6, 2018 | ISBN: 1119222443 | True EPUB | 744 pages | 2.2 MB

Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies), 2nd Edition edited by Steven M. Cahn, Stephanie Ross, Sandra L. Shapshay
English | June 22, 2020 | ISBN: 1118948327 | True EPUB | 848 pages | 1.9 MB

Simon Maguire, "Vincenzo Bellini and the Aesthetics of Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera "
English | ISBN: 113836598X | 2018 | 232 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
First published in 1989. This study explores Italian attitudes to opera while Vincenzo Bellini was studying and composing. It draws mainly on Italian critical and aesthetic writing dating from the end of an era that was still dominated by the Italian bel canto. Many of the writers considered are unfamiliar today, but they express the accepted views on music, opera, and singing that dominated a particularly insular tradition. This title will be of interest to students of Italian and Music History.

Pamela G. Smart, "Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0292737580, 0292723334 | PDF | pages: 295 | 14.3 mb
Renowned as one of the most significant museums built by private collectors, the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, seeks to engage viewers in an acutely aesthetic, rather than pedagogical, experience of works of art. The Menil's emphasis on being moved by art, rather than being taught art history, comes from its founders' conviction that art offers a way to reintegrate the sacred and the secular worlds. Inspired by the French Catholic revivalism of the interwar years that recast Catholic tradition as the avant-garde, Dominique and John de Menil shared with other Catholic intellectuals a desire to reorder a world in crisis by imbuing modern cultural forms with religious faith, binding the sacred with the modern. Sacred Modern explores how the Menil Collection gives expression to the religious and political convictions of its founders and how "the Menil way" is being both perpetuated and contested as the Museum makes the transition from operating under the personal direction of Dominique de Menil to the stewardship of career professionals. Taking an ethnographic approach, Pamela G. Smart analyzes the character of the Menil aesthetic, the processes by which it is produced, and the sensibilities that it is meant to generate in those who engage with the collection. She also offers insight into the extraordinary impact Dominique and John de Menil had on the emergence of Houston as a major cultural center.

Joseph Agassi, Ian Jarvie, "A Critical Rationalist Aesthetics."
English | 2008 | ISBN: 9042023678 | PDF | pages: 202 | 1.7 mb
This book is a first attempt to cover the whole area of aesthetics from the point of view of critical rationalism. It takes up and expands upon the more narrowly focused work of E. H. Gombrich, Sheldon Richmond, and Raphael Sassower and Louis Ciccotello. The authors integrate the arts into the scientific world view and acknowledge that there is an aesthetic aspect to anything whatsoever. They pay close attention to the social situatedness of the arts. Their aesthetics treats art as emerging from craft in the form of luxurious and playful challenge to the audience. In developing it they place emphasis on the number of questions and claims that can be settled by appeal to empirical facts; on the historical character of aesthetic judgements; and on the connection of aesthetic truth to true love and true friendship, i.e. fidelity and integrity, not to informative truth.

Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon by Mario Telò
English | April 18, 2016 | ISBN: 022630969X | True EPUB | 256 pages | 0.8 MB
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427-386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals?

Peter Weiss, Joachim Neugroschel, "The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume I: A Novel"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0822335344, 0822335468 | PDF | pages: 377 | 1.3 mb
A major literary event, the publication of this masterly translation makes one of the towering works of twentieth-century German literature available to English-speaking readers for the first time. The three-volume novel The Aesthetics of Resistance is the crowning achievement of Peter Weiss, the internationally renowned dramatist best known for his play Marat/Sade. The first volume, presented here, was initially published in Germany in 1975; the third and final volume appeared in 1981, just six months before Weiss's death.

Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology by Carrie Noland
English | December 14, 1999 | ISBN: 0691004161, 069100417X | True EPUB | 280 pages | 5.6 MB
Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings to construct a tradition of diverse lyricists-from Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, and René Char to contemporary performance artists Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith-allied in their concern with the nature of subjectivity in an age of mechanical reproduction.

Aesthetics of Universal Knowledge by Simon Schaffer
English | PDF | 2017 | 280 Pages | ISBN : 3319425943 | 8.7 MB
Born out of a major international dialogue held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, Italy, this collection of essays presents innovative and provocative arguments about the claims of universal knowledge schemes and the different aesthetic and material forms in which such claims have been made and executed. Contributors take a close look at everything from religious pilgrimages, museums, and maps of the world, to search engines and automated GPS.