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Subject of Aesthetics
A psychology of art and experience
Av Tone Roald
Häftad, 2015
1012 kr
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How does art influence us? In The Subject of Aesthetics, Tone Roald approaches aesthetics as a psychological discipline, showing how works of art challenge our habitual ways of perceiving the world. While aesthetics has traditionally been a philosophical discipline, Roald discusses how it is very …
Scanning the Hypnoglyph
Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation
Inbunden, 2016
2726 kr
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Nathaniel Wallace’s Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep’s evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise …
Art and the Brain
Plasticity, Embodiment, and the Unclosed Circle
Av Amy Ione
Inbunden, 2016
2459 kr
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In her new book Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment and the Unclosed Circle, Amy Ione offers a profound assessment of our ever-evolving view of the biological brain as it pertains to embodied human experience. She deftly takes the reader from Deep History into our current worldview by …
Persistence of the Human
Consciousness, Meta-body and Survival in Contemporary Film and Literature
Inbunden, 2016
2086 kr
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Recent narrative fiction and film increasingly exploit, explore and thematize the embodied mind, revealing the tenacity of a certain brand of humanism. The presence of narratively based concepts of personal identity even in texts which explore posthuman possibilities is strong proof that our basic …
Spike Milligan's Accordion
The Distortion of Time and Space in The Goon Show
Av Rick Cousins
Inbunden, 2016
1912 kr
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“It’s all rather confusing, really” was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program The Goon Show. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, …
Art and Adaptability
Consciousness and Cognitive Culture
Inbunden, 2017
2201 kr
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Art and Adaptability argues for a co-evolution of theory of mind and material/art culture. The book covers relevant areas from great ape intelligence, hominin evolution, Stone Age tools, Paleolithic culture and art forms, to neurobiology. We use material and art objects, whether painting or …
Conscious Theatre Practice
Yoga, Meditation and Performance
Inbunden, 2021
1958 kr
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In Conscious Theatre Practice: Yoga, Meditation, and Performance, Lou Prendergast charts a theatre research project in which the notion of Self-realisation and related contemplative practices, including Bikram Yoga and Vipassana meditation, are applied to performance. Coining the term ‘Conscious …
Stravinsky, God, and Time
Av Helen Sills
Inbunden, 2022
2405 kr
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If, as Robert Craft remarked, ‘religious beliefs were at the core of Stravinsky’s life and work’, why have they not figured more prominently in discussions of his works?Stravinsky’s coordination of the listener with time is central to the unity of his compositional style. This ground-breaking study …
Bertolt Brecht’s Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today
Inbunden, 2025
2210 kr
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This book examines Brecht’s theory and method of adaptation. It first reconstructs it into a single framework using four key Brechtian concepts: Fabel, gestus, estrangement effects, and historicizing. It then uses that framework to analyse four Brechtian adaptations: The Tutor, Don Juan, “Socrates …
Innovation and Visualization
Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths
Av Amy Ione
Häftad, 2005
2016 kr
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Amy Ione’s Innovation and Visualization is the first in detail account that relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance. Integrated case studies allow Ione to put aside C.P. Snow’s “two culture” framework in favor of …
Screen Consciousness
Cinema, Mind and World
Häftad, 2006
2078 kr
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This collection of essays is driven by the question of how we know what we know, and in particular how we can be certain about something even when we know it is an illusion. The contention of the book is that this age-old question has acquired a new urgency as certain trends in science, technology …
Image in French Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
1736 kr
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The Image in French Philosophy challenges dominant interpretations of Bergson, Sartre, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Deleuze by arguing that their philosophy was not a critique but a revival of metaphysics as a thinking pertaining to impersonal forces and distinguished by an aversion to subjectivity and …
Big Fish
Consciousness as Structure, Body and Space
Av Anna Bonshek, Corrina Bonshek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
2206 kr
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While debate continues in the fields of the sciences and humanities as to the nature of consciousness and the location of consciousness in the brain or as a field phenomenon, in the Vedic tradition, consciousness has been understood and continues to be articulated as an infinite field of …
Restoration of Breath
Consciousness and Performance
Häftad, 2007
1053 kr
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Breath is the flow of air between life and death. Breathing is an involuntary action that functions as the basis of all human activities, intellectual, artistic, emotional and physical. Breathing is the first autonomous individual action that brings life into being and the end of breathing is the …
Cognition in Emotion
An Investigation through Experiences with Art
Av Tone Roald
Häftad, 2007
701 kr
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Emotions are essential for human existence, both lighting the way toward the brightest of achievements and setting the course into the darkness of suffering. Not surprisingly, then, emotion research is currently one of the hottest topics in the field of psychology. Yet to divine the nature of …
Frameworks, Artworks, Place
The Space of Perception in the Modern World
Av Tim Mehigan
Häftad, 2008
1391 kr
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How space – mental, emotional, visual – is implicated in our constructions of reality and our art is the focus of this set of innovative essays. For the first time art theorists and historians, visual artists, literary critics and philosophers have come together to assay the problem of space both …
Presence in Play
A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre
Av Cormac Power
Häftad, 2008
1385 kr
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Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey and analysis of theatrical presence to be published. Theatre as an art form has often been associated with notions of presence. The ‘live’ immediacy of the actor, the unmediated unfolding of …
Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film
Häftad, 2008
1427 kr
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This book offers sweeping and cogent arguments as to why analytic philosophers should take experimental cinema seriously as a medium for illuminating mechanisms of meaning in language. Using the analogy of the movie projector, Barnett deconstructs all communication acts into functions of interval, …
Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time
Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique in the 21st Century
Häftad, 2008
2257 kr
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The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time examines the place of Chekhov’s Technique in contemporary acting pedagogy and practice. Cynthia Ashperger answers the questions: What are the reasons behind the technique’s current resurgence? How has this cohesive and holistic training been brought into …
Integral Drama
Culture, Consciousness and Identity
Häftad, 2008
1062 kr
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Integral Drama critically explores modern drama in the context of Indian aesthetics described in the Natyashastra and the vast, new interdisciplinary field of consciousness studies. It also focuses on how Indian theatre aesthetics has influenced modern drama theories and practice, and the extent to …
Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons
On Literary Emotions
Häftad, 2008
1315 kr
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Joys and Sorrows of Imaginary Persons is a literary approach to consciousness where Donald Wesling denies that emotion is the scandal or handmaid of reason—rather emotion is the co-creator with reason of human life in the world. Discoveries in neuro-science in the 1990s Decade of the Brain have …
Awakening the Performing Body
Häftad, 2008
1062 kr
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Awakening the Performing Body is an exemplary work of practice-based research presented in a pedagogical format. This text is clearly laid out for any acting teacher who wishes to pursue a more spiritual approach to acting and participate in the goal of reclaiming the sacred in theatre - or indeed …
Touching Surfaces
Photographic Aesthetics, Temporality, Aging
Häftad, 2009
1252 kr
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Who isn’t 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 …
Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives
Inbunden, 2009
2190 kr
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Framing Consciousness in Art shows how the frames-in-frames in these different contexts question notions of vision and representation, linear time, conventional spatial coordinates, binaries of ‘internal’ consciousness and ‘external’ world, subject and object, and the precise anatomy of mental …
Patterns of Creativity
Investigations into the sources and methods of creativity
Av Kevin Brophy
Häftad, 2009
994 kr
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Patterns of Creativity reflects on the implications of recent neuro-science findings, evolutionary theory and linguistics for ideas about creativity and the practice of creativity.Kevin Brophy approaches questions of art and creation from-the-inside, that is as a poet himself. The conclusions about …
Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions
Their Interplay and Impact
Inbunden, 2010
2401 kr
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This book argues that there is a complex logical and epistemological interplay between the concepts of metaphor, narrative, and emotions. They share a number of important similarities and connections. In the first place, all three are constituted by aspect-seeing, the seeing-as or perception of …
Between Play and Prayer
The Variety of Theatricals in Spiritual Performance
Av Anita Hammer
Inbunden, 2010
2342 kr
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Between Play and Prayer launches Spiritual Performance as a term to cover all human performance which in some way refers to creating the presence of beings or entities from a realm that transgresses the sensorial. This notion covers a great variety of performative genres, ranging from funerary …
Zones of Re-membering
Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness
Av Don Gifford
Häftad, 2011
901 kr
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Don Gifford in Zones of Re-membering shows clearly, thoughtfully, yet entertainingly how no one explanation will account for the depth and complexity of human experience and its grounding in Memory. Because consciousness is a function of Memory, “life without Memory is no life at all” as …
Utopia and Consciousness
Häftad, 2011
959 kr
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In his book Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2007), Fredric Jameson analyzes the multiple components of utopia and the possibility of achieving utopia in the near future. As this book argues, however, human civilization will never achieve utopia …
Agents of uncertainty
Mysticism, scepticism, Buddhism, art and poetry
Av John Danvers
Häftad, 2012
1292 kr
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Through an analysis of many different examples, Danvers articulates a new way of thinking about mysticism and scepticism, not as opposite poles of the philosophical spectrum, but as two fields of enquiry with overlapping aims and methods. Prompted by a deep sense of wonder at being alive, many …
