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Crescent Moon over the Rational

Philosophical Interpretations of Paul Klee

by Stephen H. Watson ...

Why, and in what manner, did artist Paul Klee have such a significant impact on twentieth-century thinkers? His art and his writing inspired leading philosophers to produce key texts in twentieth-century aesthetics, texts that influenced subsequent art history and criticism.Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, Sartre, Foucault, Blanchot, Derrida, and Marion are among the ... Read more

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Why, and in what manner, did artist Paul Klee have such a significant impact on twentieth-century thinkers? His art and his writing inspired leading philosophers to produce key texts in twentieth-century aesthetics, texts that influenced subsequent art history and criticism.Heidegger, Adorno, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, Sartre, Foucault, Blanchot, Derrida, and Marion are among the
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Van Gogh among the Philosophers

Painting, Thinking, Being

by Pauline E. Erickson, Alina N. Feld, Stephen A. Erickson, Rebecca Longtin Hansen, Galen A. Johnson, Christian Lotz, James Luchte, David P. Nichols, K. Malcolm Richards, Joseph J. Tanke0, Ingvild Torsen1, Gregory J. Walters2, Stephen H. Watson3 ...

This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world. ... Read more

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This volume brings Continental philosophical interpretations of Van Gogh into dialogue with one another to explore how for Van Gogh, art places human beings in their world, and yet in other ways displaces them, not allowing them to belong to that world.
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The Gay Science

With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

by Friedrich Nietzsche ...

Translated by Walter Kaufmann ...

The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of ... Read more

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The book Nietzsche called "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God—to which a large part of the book is devoted—and his doctrine of the eternal recurrence.Walter Kaufmann's commentary, with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters, brings to life Nietzsche as a human being and illuminates his philosophy. The book contains some of
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Thomas Kinkade

25 Years of Light

by Thomas Kinkade ...

A look back at the career of the Painter of Light™, including more than 150 of his most beloved paintings, personal mementos, and unpublished artworks.Thomas Kinkade sold more canvases than any other painter in history—more than Picasso, Rembrandt, Gauguin, Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Van Gogh combined. His tranquil, light-infused paintings affirmed the basic values of family, home, faith in God, ... Read more

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A look back at the career of the Painter of Light™, including more than 150 of his most beloved paintings, personal mementos, and unpublished artworks.Thomas Kinkade sold more canvases than any other painter in history—more than Picasso, Rembrandt, Gauguin, Monet, Manet, Renoir, and Van Gogh combined. His tranquil, light-infused paintings affirmed the basic values of family, home, faith in God,
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Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts

by Ronald Bogue ...

Series series Deleuze and the Arts
Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and painting. ... Read more

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Bogue provides a systematic overview and introduction to Deleuze's writings on music and painting, and an assessment of their position within his aesthetics as a whole. Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts breaks new ground in the scholarship on Deleuze's aesthetics, while providing a clear and accessible guide to his often overlooked writings in the fields of music and painting.
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Art and Agency

An Anthropological Theory

by Alfred Gell ...

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to ... Read more

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Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to
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Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze

The Diazotypes and Other Late Works

by Claire Raymond ...

Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), Claire Raymond takes up the question of the disintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year of her life. Departing from the techniques of her earlier compositions, Woodman worked in the diazotype process for many of these late pieces, most importantly the monumental Blueprint for a Temple. ... Read more

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Focusing on the later work of the American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), Claire Raymond takes up the question of the disintegrative condition of the art she produced in the last year of her life. Departing from the techniques of her earlier compositions, Woodman worked in the diazotype process for many of these late pieces, most importantly the monumental Blueprint for a Temple.
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InstaScrapBook: 2012 Picks

by Marc Corn ...

A Picture can tell you more than you think.InstaScrapBook: 2012 contains handpicked photographs that I have taken throughout 2012.Images are from my own Instagram feed found here:http://instagram.com/VlogWithSid ... Read more

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A Picture can tell you more than you think.InstaScrapBook: 2012 contains handpicked photographs that I have taken throughout 2012.Images are from my own Instagram feed found here:http://instagram.com/VlogWithSid
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Silence

by John Biguenet ...

Series series Object Lessons
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist's final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture-in short, as an object we both do and do ... Read more

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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.What is silence? In a series of short meditations, novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a terrorist's final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture-in short, as an object we both do and do
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Let's Wrestle

by David Shrigley ...

A collection of peculiar drawings and strange ruminations by the "dementedly funny" pop artist and author of Get Your Sh*t Together (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Scottish pop artist David Shrigley has been exhibited at some of the world's finest art museums, including MoMA and the Tate. It has also been described as "a psychotic version of Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoons" ( The ... Read more

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A collection of peculiar drawings and strange ruminations by the "dementedly funny" pop artist and author of Get Your Sh*t Together (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Scottish pop artist David Shrigley has been exhibited at some of the world's finest art museums, including MoMA and the Tate. It has also been described as "a psychotic version of Matt Groening's Life in Hell cartoons" ( The
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The Thin Red Line

Edited by David Davies ...

Series series Philosophers on Film
The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the existential and phenomenological to the artistic and technical.This is the ... Read more

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The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the existential and phenomenological to the artistic and technical.This is the
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On Literature

by J. Hillis Miller ...

Series series Thinking in Action
Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book. He begins by asking what ... Read more

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Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book. He begins by asking what
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