Illusions in painting : an attempt at philosophical interpretation / by Salwa, Mateusz

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Psychological aesthetics painting, feeling, and making sense / by Maclagan, David, 1940-

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Pleasure and the arts enjoying literature, painting, and music / by Butler, Christopher, 1940-

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The religious art of Zen Master Hakuin by Yoshizawa, Katsuhiro

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The flesh of images : Merleau-Ponty between Painting and Cinema / by Carbone, Mauro, 1956-

Subjects: “…Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 Knowledge Painting.…”
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Handbook of Tibetan iconometry a guide to the arts of the 17th century /

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A pictorial Gospel : a life of Christ in the works of the old masters and the words of the Gospels... by Hodgkin, Eliot

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Dionysos in classical Athens : an understanding through images / by Isler-Kerényi, Cornelia

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Images in Asian religions texts and contexts /

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Africa's Ogun : old world and new /

Table of Contents: “…Cosentino -- Unveiling the Orisha / Philip Scher -- Ogun and body/mind potentiality : Yoruba scarification and painting traditions in Africa and the Americas / Henry John Drewal and John Mason -- Ògún : builder of the Lùkùmí's house / John Mason.…”
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New light on Manichaeism papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism, organized by the International Association of Manichaean Studies /

Table of Contents: “…experiment in digital reconstruction with a Manichaean book painting : the work of the religion scene (MIK III 4974 recto) /…”
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Reflections on aesthetic judgment and other essays by Tilghman, Benjamin R.

Table of Contents: “…The literary work of art -- Aesthetic descriptions and secondary senses -- Danto and the ontology of literature -- Understanding people and understanding art -- Picture space and moral space -- Reflections on aesthetic theory -- Literature, philosophy and nonsense -- Charles le Brun, theory, philosophy and irony -- Architecture, expression and the understanding of a culture -- Perspective, painting and the look of the world -- A conceptual dimension of art history -- Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams -- Literature, human understanding and morality -- Reflections on aesthetic judgment.…”
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Foucault's philosophy of art a genealogy of modernity / by Tanke, Joseph J.

Table of Contents: “…The stirrings of modernity -- Rupture -- Nonaffirmative painting -- Anti-platonism -- The cynical legacy.…”
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Christian fundamentalism and the culture of disenchantment by Maltby, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Creed and critique -- Fundamentalist history, postmodern contingency -- End times fiction and the ironic reader -- Fundamentalist exclusivism, radical democracy -- Fundamentalist dominion, postmodern ecology -- Evangelical painting and the ironic spectator -- Disenchanted Christianity.…”
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Psychoanalytic aesthetics an introduction to the British school / by Glover, Nicola

Table of Contents: “…Freud's theory of art and creativity -- Essentials of Kleinian theory -- The development of Kleinian aesthetics -- The legacy of Wilfred Bion -- Ehrenzweig and the hidden order of art -- Art, creativity, and the potential space -- Painting as the body : the aesthetics of Fuller and Wollheim.…”
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Interpreting excess Jean-Luc Marion, saturated phenomena, and hermeneutics / by Mackinlay, Shane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Marion's claims -- The hermeneutic structure of phenomenality -- The theory of saturated phenomena -- Events -- Dazzling idols and paintings -- Flesh as absolute -- The face as irregardable icon -- Revelation : the phenomenon of God's appearing -- Conclusion: Revising the phenomenology of givenness.…”
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In the shadow of phenomenology writings after Merleau-Ponty I / by Watson, Stephen H., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-texts : language, perception and the cogito -- Merleau-Ponty/Sausssure -- The de-aestheticization of the work of art : on painting as a "secret science" -- Cancellations : a phenomenology between Hegel and Husserl and the remainder of the dialectic -- The possibility of a figured philosophy : on rehabilitating the sensible.…”
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Selected writings on aesthetics by Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803

Table of Contents: “…Lessing's Laocoön -- Critical forests: fourth grove, on Riedel's Theory of the beaux arts -- Shakespeare -- The causes of sunken taste among the different peoples in whom it once blossomed -- On the influence of the belles lettres on the higher sciences -- Does painting or music have a greater effect?: a divine colloquy -- On image, poetry, and fable.…”
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Venturing upon dizzy heights lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / by Ross, Bruce, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth's rainbow and ours : a Kabbalist understanding of beauty -- Being is believing : the underpinnings of Walter Benjamin's deconstruction of historicism -- Dancing cranes and empty mind : the fusion of Wu-Chi and T'ai-Chi in ancient Chinese mountain poetry -- The willing subject and the non-willing subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's hyperborean : Taoist and deconstructive challenges to the idea of virtue -- Dances with bears : the beginnings of western art -- Vincent van Gogh's irises : venturing upon dizzy heights -- Figureless landscape : the persistence of the sublime in American landscape painting -- The essence of haiku -- A world out of balance and in balance : urban and nature haiku -- Narratives of the heart : haibun -- On defining haibun to a western audience -- Tanka : celebrating the natural world and the postmodern condition.…”
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Reading in the wilderness private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / by Brantley, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The performance of reading -- "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice -- Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order -- Carthusians and books -- Carthusians and art -- The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext -- "ALS wildernes is wroght þis boke" : formats of monastic books -- Reading spiritual community in the wilderness -- Lyric imaginings and painted prayers -- The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle -- Imagining the Carthusian reader -- Liturgical pageantry in private spaces -- Reading the liturgy : two models -- Performing the holy name -- Performing the canonical hours -- Performing the seven sacraments -- Envisioning dialogue in performance -- "In maner of a dyaloge it wente" -- Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul -- Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points -- Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading -- Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers -- Theatrical reading in additional 37049 -- Monastic closet drama -- Conclusion: Reading performances.…”
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