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This work argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to the writing of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman. It explores the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of the ornamental aspects of Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy. It advances a new theory of ornament as a practice of attending, honoring, and noticing, in contrast to more familiar theories in which materiality, handcrafting, or historical grounding are emphasized.

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  • Author : Theo Davis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Total Pages : 265 pages
  • ISBN : 0190467517
  • PDF File Size : 32,7 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Ornamental Aesthetics

Ornamental Aesthetics
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 28,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 03 June 2024
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This work argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to the writing of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman. It explores the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of

Melville and Aesthetics

Melville and Aesthetics
  • Publisher : Springer
  • File Size : 20,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 26 September 2011
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In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic

Cultural Aesthetics

Cultural Aesthetics
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • File Size : 53,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 December 1993
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A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, Cultural Aesthetics explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patricia Fumerton situates the

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory

Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 43,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 23 December 2021
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Architecture, Aesthetics, and the Predicaments of Theory offers a critical analysis of the methodological constants and shared critical strategies in the history of theoretical discourse on Western architecture. Central to

Aesthetics

Aesthetics
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • File Size : 43,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 10 November 2014
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The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final book, published in 1953. It will be of value to graduate students in philosophy, scholars concerned with 20th century Continental

Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935

Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 34,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 January 2019
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This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies

Mudéjar Art. Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art

Mudéjar Art. Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art
  • Publisher : Museum With No Frontiers, MWNF (Museum Ohne Grenzen)
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  • Release Date : 03 June 2024
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MUDÉJAR ART: Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art reveals the fascinating exuberance of a unique cultural and artistic symbiosis that characterises Christian Spain after the Reconquista. The Mudéjars were

Aesthetics after Darwin

Aesthetics after Darwin
  • Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
  • File Size : 33,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 10 December 2019
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Darwin famously proposed that sexual competition and courtship is (or at least was) the driving force of “art” production not only in animals, but also in humans. The present book

Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts, Or, Practical Aesthetics

Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts, Or, Practical Aesthetics
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
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  • Release Date : 03 June 2024
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The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) derives primarily from his monumental theoretical foray Der Stil in der technischen und tektonischen Künsten (1860-62), here translated into English