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Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Terry Tempest Williams
Pantheon
Pantheon
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge , Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between...
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The Principles of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman
Penguin Press HC, The
Penguin Press HC, The
Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's most...
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The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage)
Alain De Botton
Vintage
Vintage
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned...
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The Politics of Aesthetics
Jacques Ranciere
Continuum
Continuum
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming 'aesthetics' from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics...
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Relational Aesthetics
Nicolas Bourriaud
Les Presse Du Reel,Franc
Les Presse Du Reel,Franc
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary...
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On Ugliness
Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen (translator)
Rizzoli
Rizzoli
In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty , renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the...
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Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Pierre Bourdieu
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press
No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and...
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History of Beauty
Umberto Eco
Rizzoli International Publications
Rizzoli International Publications
What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he...
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In Praise of Shadows
Junichiro Tanizaki
Leete'S Island Books
Leete'S Island Books
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and...
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The Future of the Image
Jacques Ranciere
Verso
Verso
Leading philosopher presents a radical manifesto for the future of art and film. In The Future of the Image , Jacques Rancière develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been...
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