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Touching Surfaces
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 64.40Who isnt seduced by the idea of an affinity between aging and aesthetics? Yet, when does aging truly begin? What attributes does the aesthetic embrace? Looking into startling photographic art of the past three decades, this book is prompted by such questions and turns them into a meditation on how aesthetics mediates our relation to time. The... more...
Artists, Patrons, and the Public
AltaMira Press 2010; US$ 48.99Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions of why and how culture changes. The answer is a dynamic and fascinating discourse that sets aesthetic culture in its material, physical, social, and political context, illuminating the primary role of the... more...
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume Five
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 104.95Edited by Douglas Kellner and Clayton Pierce, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation is the fifth volume of Herbert Marcuse's collected papers. Containing some of Marcuse?s most important work, this book presents for the first time his unique syntheses of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and critical social theory, directed toward human emancipation... more...
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 53.00This collection of essays examines Schopenhauer's thought and its enduring contribution to aesthetic theory. more...
Art Beyond Representation
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 107.00Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament,... more...
Real Presences
Faber and Faber 2010; US$ 11.65Real Presences argues that any understanding of the nature of language is based on the assumption of God's presence, and discusses the influence of this on literary criticism. more...
The Aesthetic Development
Karnac Books 2009; US$ 26.95'Few people would be better qualified than Meg Harris Williams to write this innovative and eagerly anticipated post-Kleinian book. Deeply versed in the opus of Bion and Meltzer, Harris Williams enhances the concept of "catastrophic change". The analyst who "eschews memory and desire" observes the subtle interplay of transference and countertransference... more...
Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art
BRILL 2011; US$ 212.00How contemporary Chinese art is creating ?a philosophy of life, a philosophy of politics, and a natural philosophy,? as artist Qiu Zhijie says it must, is explored in this collection of essays by philosophers and art historians from America and China. more...
The Hidden Order Of Art
Orion 2011; US$ 31.70A revealing study into the relationship between psychology and the arts. more...
Transfigured Stages
Editions Rodopi 2011; US$ 48.00Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia captures the excitement of a key period in the emergence of postdramatic theatre in Australia in the 1980s and 1990s. It is the first book to discuss work by The Sydney Front (1986 1993) and Open City (1987 ), and engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory... more...









