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Umberto Eco On beauty
Beauty is both a history of art, and a history of aesthetics. Eco draws on the histories of both art and aesthetics to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. Taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. Eco...
Engels | 438 pagina's | Secker & Warburg, London | 2004
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Stephen Bayley Ugly
the aesthetics of everything
Over de vraag wat bepalend is voor de ervaring van mooi of lelijk, en de veranderingen daarin in de loop der tijd.
Non-fictie
Engels | 272 pagina's | Goodman Fiell, London | 2012
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Byung-Chul Han Saving beauty
"Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and 'likes', resulting in a kind of 'pornography' of beauty. In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesthetic theory for our digital age. He interrogates our preoccupation with all things slick and smooth, from...
Engels | 95 pagina's | Polity, Cambridge | 2018
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