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 | Finding Beauty in a Broken World
In her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge, Terry Tempest Williams gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between t...
Manufacturer: Pantheon
| $14.48 - $26.00
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 | The Principles of Uncertainty
Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text.
The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through the psyche of Maira Kalman, one of this country's ...
Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
| $16.15 - $29.95
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 | The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage)
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmention...
Manufacturer: Vintage
| $9.92
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 | Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and pre...
Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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 | Relational Aesthetics
Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art b...
Manufacturer: Les Presse Du Reel,Franc
| $20.00
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 | On Ugliness
In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction...
Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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 | The Politics of Aesthetics
"The Politics of Aesthetics" rethinks the relation between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from its current narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. Here, Jacques Ranciere develops a critical aesthetic that goes ...
Manufacturer: Continuum
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 | In Praise of Shadows
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and...
Manufacturer: Leete'S Island Books
| $4.30 - $9.95
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 | Obsession: A History
We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with...
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Aesthetics