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Games
Agency As Art
Häftad, 2025
376 kr
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Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. Thus, the fact that we play games demonstrates the …
Games
Agency As Art
Inbunden, 2020
634 kr
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Games are a unique art form. Games work in the medium of agency. Game designers tell us who to be and what to care about during the game. Game designers sculpt alternate agencies, and game players submerge themselves in those alternate agencies. Thus, the fact that we play games demonstrates the …
Art Scents
Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts
Av Larry Shiner
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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Although the arts of incense and perfume making are among the oldest of human cultural practices, it is only in the last two decades that the use of odors in the creation of art has begun to attract attention under the rubrics of 'olfactory art' or 'scent art.' Contemporary olfactory art ranges …
Apt Imaginings
Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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How do our engagements with fictions and other products of the imagination compare to our experiences of the real world? Are the feelings we have about a novel's characters modelled on our thoughts about actual people? If it is wrong to feel pleasure over certain situations in real life, can it …
Attentional Engines
A Perceptual Theory of the Arts
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in the often odd and abstract objects and events we call artworks? William P. Seeley proposes that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to direct attention to critical …
Philosophy and the Moving Image
Av Noël Carroll
Inbunden, 2021
1119 kr
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A wide-ranging, eclectic collection of essays on philosophy and the moving image by a pre-eminent philosopher of artThis volume presents a selection of philosopher Noël Carroll's essays-several of which appear in print here for the first time-at the intersection of philosophy, film, and television. …
Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism
Inbunden, 2020
1591 kr
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Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism, a study in philosophical aesthetics, investigates an idea that underpins the ethical criticism of art but that is rarely acknowledged and poorly understood - namely, that the ethical criticism of art involves judgments not only of the attitudes a work …
The Geography of Taste
Av Dominic McIver Lopes, Samantha Matherne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
977 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they find people immersed in matters aesthetic. In …
The Geography of Taste
Av Dominic McIver Lopes, Samantha Matherne m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
295 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they find people immersed in matters aesthetic. In …
Dangerous Art
On Moral Criticisms of Artwork
Av James Harold
Inbunden, 2020
1206 kr
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Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally dangerous, what do we mean? James Harold approaches the topic from two angles. First, he takes up the moral question on its own. What could it mean to say that a work of …
Image in the Making
Digital Innovation and the Visual Arts
Inbunden, 2021
1682 kr
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Human beings have always made images, and to do so they have developed and refined an enormous range of artistic tools and materials. With the development of digital technology, the ways of making images - whether they are still or moving, 2D or 3D - have evolved at an unprecedented rate. At every …
Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters
Av Dominic Lopes, Bence Nanay m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
834 kr
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As the sunset swings into view, you think, "That's beautiful." You take a bite of cake and you think, "Wow, that's sweet"-maybe too sweet. You hear that new song and it blows you away. You play it for your friends. The novel is wonderful, the movie disappoints, the dress looked better in the store. …
Understanding Aesthetic Life
Essays
Av Nick Riggle
Inbunden, 2027
977 kr
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According to a powerful tradition inspired by Hume and Kant and running through the 20th century, aesthetic life is the life of an individual in pursuit of valuable experience. The linchpin of this tradition, aesthetic hedonism, stood nearly unchallenged alongside an array of complementary views …
Aesthetics After Modernism
Inbunden, 2024
1305 kr
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Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection of aesthetics to Clement Greenberg's success in co-opting the discourse of aesthetics, notably Kant's aesthetics, to underwrite a formalist theory of …
Beholden to Beauty
Aesthetic Value and the Authority of Pleasure
Inbunden, 2027
1305 kr
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Beauty surrounds us—in art that captivates, in landscapes that move us, and in countless aspects of life. Yet beauty remains philosophically puzzling. How can something so deeply tied to feeling also demand rational responsiveness? How can aesthetic value be at once personal, social, and …
Playing with Words
On Form and Thought in the Philosophy of Poetry
Inbunden, 2026
1172 kr
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Peter Lamarque argues that what sets poetry apart from other uses of language is playfulness, contrasted not with seriousness but with single-mindedness. Poetry gives the imagination free rein, engaging in exploratory journeys of thought, emotion, and ways of seeing without prescribed methods or …
