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  • El poseedor y el poseído

    Handel, Mozart, Beethoven y el concepto de genio musical

    par Peter Kivy ...
    Traduit par Mariano Peyrou ...
    Collections Livre 181 - La balsa de la Medusa
    Este libro trata sobre el concepto del genio artístico y sobre la forma en que llegó a ser representado por tres grandes compositores de la era moderna: Handel, Mozart y Beethoven. La elección de estos tres músicos no es la expresión de una preferencia personal, sino que viene determinada por hechos históricos: en su época, sus contemporáneos los destacaron especialmente, y los dos últimos también ... En savoir plus

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  • Once Upon a Time

    Essays in the Philosophy of Literature

    Once Upon a Time is a collection of essays in the philosophy of literature with two central themes: the significance of story –telling for us and the question of whether the novel, perhaps the art form most closely associated with story-telling, is a legitimate source of human knowledge. Leading philosopher of art Peter Kivy explores why human beings are so enthralled by being told stories and ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • De Gustibus

    Arguing About Taste and Why We Do It

    par Peter Kivy ...
    In De Gustibus Peter Kivy deals with a question that has never been fully addressed by philosophers of art: why do we argue about art? We argue about the 'facts' of the world either to influence people's behaviour or simply to get them to see what we take to be the truth about the world. We argue over ethical matters, if we are ethical 'realists,' because we think we are arguing about 'facts' in ... En savoir plus

    $52.79 CAD

  • Antithetical Arts

    On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music

    par Peter Kivy ...
    Antithetical Arts constitutes a defence of musical formalism against those who would put literary interpretations on the absolute music canon. In Part I, the historical origins of both the literary interpretation of absolute music and musical formalism are laid out. In Part II, specific attempts to put literary interpretations on various works of the absolute music canon are examined and ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

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  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • On Beauty and Being Just

    par Elaine Scarry ...
    Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is the handmaiden of privilege; and that it masks political interests. In On Beauty and Being Just Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty ... En savoir plus

    $24.19 CAD

  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Roger Scruton ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Let's Talk About Love

    Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste

    par Carl Wilson ...
    For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • What Art Is

    par Arthur C. Danto ...
    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Sinister Resonance

    The Mediumship of the Listener

    par David Toop ...
    Sinister Resonance begins with the premise that sound is a haunting, a ghost, a presence whose location is ambiguous and whose existence is transitory. The intangibility of sound is uncanny – a phenomenal presence in the head, at its point of source and all around. The close listener is like a medium who draws out substance from that which is not entirely there.The history of listening must be ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Aisthesis

    Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

    Traduit par Zakir Paul ...
    Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD