Nach mehr als einem Jahrzehnt der Begegnung des Studiums und der kreativen Zusammenarbeit mit Japan teilen Norm Architects ihre einzigartige skandinavische Sicht auf die japanische sthetik. Mit Stillness pr sentieren Norm Architects eine skandinavische Perspektive auf... Lees meer.

Theodor Adorno 1903-69 was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in... Lees meer.

Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged Edward SaidAesthetics the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault s courses articles and interviews focuses on the philosophy literature and art which informed his engagement with ethics and powe... Lees meer.

The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition-patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras me... Lees meer.

This ground-breaking book brings to life a neglected topic. our everyday aesthetic interactions with the world around us and the objects in it. Yuriko Saito shows how exploring everyday aesthetics can enrich the content of our aesthetic discourse and reveals its influ... Lees meer.

Aesthetic Life is a study of modern Japan engaging the fields of art history literature and cultural studies seeking to understand how the beautiful woman bijin emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period 1868 1912 . This study of moder... Lees meer.

The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics reclaiming aesthetics from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Ranci re reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common. the delimitation... Lees meer.

Christianity had compromised the immediacy of man s relationship with reality and ironic detachment had alienated him from his deepest feelings. Hegel s Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics were delivered in Berlin in the 1820s and stand as a passionately argued work... Lees meer.

The world s most renowned critical theorist who defined the field of postcolonial studies has radically reoriented her thinking. Finding the neat polarities of tradition and modernity colonial and postcolonial no longer sufficient she argues that aesthetic education... Lees meer.

Master potters John Hesselberth and Ron Roy present this practical guide to making and using cone 6 glazes. Artists will be able to quickly learn the basics of glaze chemistry and firing and even formulate their own appealing glazes. Mastering Cone 6 Glazes is an inval... Lees meer.

In this book Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which aesthetic images became central to Japan s cultural identities. The people of premodern Japan built on earlier aesthetic traditions in part for their own sake but also to find space for self-... Lees meer.

Yuriko Saito the leading figure in the field explores the nature and significance of the aesthetic dimensions of people s everyday lives. She argues that everyday aesthetics can be an effective instrument for directing humanity s collective and cumulative world-making... Lees meer.

This anthology is intended to supplement courses in which Japanese aesthetics and culture are taught. The essays assume little background knowledge they do represent seminal thought in literary cultural and aesthetic criticism and are well known to scholars for thei... Lees meer.

Combining anthropological descriptions with historical criticism Cox situates the Zen arts within contemporary critical discourses. The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism and Japanese... Lees meer.

With this nuanced and interdisciplinary work political theorist Mihaela Mihai tackles several interrelated questions. How do societies remember histories of systemic violence. Who is excluded from such histories cast of characters. And what are the political costs... Lees meer.