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Kantian Aesthetic
From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde
E-bok, 2010
375 kr
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The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant''s aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, …
Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism
Häftad, 1996
677 kr
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In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about postmodernism. He addresses such issues as the relation between art and politics, artistic creativity, and sublimity and the postmodern sensibility. His analysis of these themes …
The Kantian Sublime
From Morality to Art
Häftad, 1991
948 kr
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In recent years Kant's aesthetic theory has been the subject of a widespread revival of interest amongst English-speaking philosophers. This revival, however, has not so far encompassed Kant's aesthetic of the sublime. This neglect is unfortunate because, amongst Continental philosophers, the …
Art and Embodiment
From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness
Inbunden, 1993
2810 kr
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In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to humanize. In Art and Embodiment he develops this theme in much greater depth, arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional striving for generality and …
Defining Art, Creating the Canon
Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt
Inbunden, 2007
2215 kr
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What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on …
Art and Embodiment
From Aesthetics to Self-Consciousness
Häftad, 2001
1115 kr
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In his Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism (Clarendon Press, 1993) Paul Crowther argued that art and aesthetic experiences have the capacity to humanize. In Art and Embodiment he develops this theme in much greater depth, arguing that art can bridge the gap between philosophy's traditional …
The Kantian Aesthetic
From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde
Inbunden, 2010
1738 kr
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The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, …
The Kantian Aesthetic
From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2013
667 kr
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The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his theory of knowledge. This upgraded theory emphasizes those conceptual and imaginative structures which Kant terms, …
Defining Art, Creating the Canon
Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on …
Aesthetics of Self-Becoming
How Art Forms Empower
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer …
Theory of the Art Object
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other people, to be aesthetically embodied in unique …
What Drawing and Painting Really Mean
The Phenomenology of Image and Gesture
Häftad, 2019
764 kr
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There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings …
Philosophy After Postmodernism
Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge
Inbunden, 2003
2513 kr
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Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.To …
Philosophy After Postmodernism
Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge
Häftad, 2014
910 kr
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Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.To …
Meanings of Abstract Art
Between Nature and Theory
Av Paul Crowther, Isabel Wünsche
Inbunden, 2012
2588 kr
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Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature …
Theory of the Art Object
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other people, to be aesthetically embodied in unique …
Theory of the Art Object
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other people, to be aesthetically embodied in unique …
Aesthetics of Self-Becoming
How Art Forms Empower
E-bok, 2019
831 kr
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This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer …
Aesthetics of Self-Becoming
How Art Forms Empower
E-bok, 2019
807 kr
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This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer …
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation
The Birth of a Medium
E-bok, 2018
813 kr
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Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present …
Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation
The Birth of a Medium
E-bok, 2018
831 kr
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Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present …
Geneses of Postmodern Art
Technology As Iconology
E-bok, 2018
729 kr
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Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another ''ism.'' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp''s idea that the artwork does not have to be physically made by its creator. Products of mass culture and technology can be used just as well as …
Geneses of Postmodern Art
Technology As Iconology
E-bok, 2018
745 kr
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Postmodernism in the visual arts is not just another ''ism.'' It emerged in the 1960s as a transformation of artistic creativity inspired by Duchamp''s idea that the artwork does not have to be physically made by its creator. Products of mass culture and technology can be used just as well as …
Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the Frame)
Inbunden, 2009
1242 kr
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Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively …
Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the Frame)
E-bok, 2009
364 kr
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Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively …
Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the Frame)
Häftad, 2010
302 kr
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Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively …
How Pictures Complete Us
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Inbunden, 2016
1130 kr
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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 sublimity that offer …
How Pictures Complete Us
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Häftad, 2016
274 kr
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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 sublimity that offer …
How Pictures Complete Us
The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
E-bok, 2016
329 kr
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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 sublimity that offer …
Phenomenology of Aesthetic Consciousness and Phantasy
Working with Husserl
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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This is the first book dedicated to Husserl’s aesthetics. Paul Crowther pieces together Husserl’s ideas of phantasy and image and presents them as a unified and innovative account of aesthetic consciousness. He also shows how Husserl’s ideas can be developed to solve problems in aesthetics, …
