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Beckett Ongoing

You must go on. I can t go on. I ll go on. These are some of the most quoted lines written by Samuel Beckett, which speak to the impulse of persevering in times of crisis and impossibility. Yet few reade…

Wonder in South Asia

A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions.

Melvin Chen

Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia

Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores the truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and the role of perception. What each chapter offers …

Maja Figge

Black (Post-)Cinemas

Contemporary Afro-diasporic post-cinematic practices should be considered to be genealogically linked with those established in militant African cinemas, but also with their quest of decolonizing (not onl…

Sandra Ruiz

Tears for Tears

How minoritarian artists grapple with both personal and collective grief Tears for Tears documents moments of tension, negotiation, transformation, and incommensurability between singular loss and mass d…

John Macarthur

Is Architecture Art?

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature…

Alfred Kubin

The ALBERTINA modern exhibition presents Alfred Kubin's view of the world of evil, the predominant theme of his life and work. The aesthetics of evil prove to be the antithesis of a tranquil idyll for him…

Drones in Society

This book explores the evolving world of drones through a multifaceted lens, revealing their profound impact on society and visual culture. The comprehensive collection bridges the gap between technology …

John Macarthur

Is Architecture Art?

Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional nature…

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

Before Beauty

A critical revision of philosophical aesthetics from the vantage point of ongoing anticolonial struggles. While the poets and thinkers of the Enlightenment claimed that before beauty, all humans would be…

Video Conferencing

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means f…

Joseph Masheck,

Faith in Art

Metaphysical thought has been excluded from much of the discourse on modern art, especially abstract painting. By connecting ideas about faith with the initiators of abstract painting, Joseph Masheck reve…

Liturgy

Aesthetica

Liturgy is eine Geheimtipp-Band, die jüngst sogar schon in eher Metal-unaffinen Jahresbestenlisten auftauchte. Black Metal goes Feuilleton. Indie Black Metal. Wenn eine Band die Quadratur des Kr…

Swedish Children¿s Cinema

Swedish children s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of th…

The Legacy of Neoplatonic Philosophy

Bringing together leading scholars from philosophy, architecture, history, classics, and art history, this volume asks: what are the key concepts in Neoplatonic aesthetics? And what impact has Neoplatonic…

The Messthetics

Anthropocosmic Nest

Rachel Coventry,

Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age

In this original study, Rachel Coventry expands Heidegger's philosophy of art to include his ontological account of poetry and technology. Following Heidegger's definition of technology as preventing auth…

Edward Allen, Jason Miller, Patrick Rand

Architectural Detailing

The industry-standard guide to designing well-performing buildings Aesthetics are a vital part of good design. Great design emerges from a deep understanding of the functionality and constructability of d…

Rachel Jane Carroll

For Pleasure

"For Pleasure argues that aesthetic pleasure and formal experimentalism hold the twinned capacity to maintain a global racial order and also to undo it"--