Rethinking the Vanguard aesthetic and political positions in the modernist debate, 1917-1962 / by Maerhofer, John W.

Subjects: “…Modernism (Aesthetics)…”
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From Impressionism to Kandinsky by Barasch, Moshe

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, Modern 18th century.…”
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The Insistence of Art Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity /

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Aesthetics and modernity from Schiller to the Frankfurt School

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The theater of truth the ideology of (neo)baroque aesthetics / by Egginton, William, 1969-

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The Pathos of the Real On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century / by Buch, Robert

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Chinese Surplus : Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body / by Heinrich, Ari Larissa

Table of Contents: “…Biopolitical aesthetics and the Chinese body as surplus -- Chinese whispers: Frankenstein, the sleeping lion, and the emergence of a biopolitical aesthetics -- Souvenirs of the organ trade: the diasporic body in contemporary Chinese literature and art -- Organ economics: transplant, class, and witness from made in Hong Kong to the eye -- Still life: recovering (Chinese) ethnicity in the body worlds and beyond -- All rights preserved: intellectual property and the plastinated cadaver exhibits.…”
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The metaphysical vision Arthur Schopenhauer's philosophy of art and life and Samuel Beckett's own way to make use of it / by Pothast, Ulrich

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysical vision -- Schopenhauer out of fashion : Beckett his student -- Intentions and limits -- Metaphysics of art and life -- On Schopenhauer's aesthetics and world view -- Premises from Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- Dissolution of self and creation of art -- The truly metaphysical activity of this life -- Idea and sensory perception -- Symbols trivial -- Realism vulgar -- Every thing beautiful -- Genius objective -- Bliss, not just pleasure -- Will-less, not just disinterested -- Music -- Tragedy and the vanity of life -- Denial of the will-to-live -- Affirmation of the will-to-live -- Happiness negative -- Suffering productive -- The metaphysical drama -- Timeless present, no ending - Life pensum, suicide no escape -- The primacy of nothingness -- Beckett's philosophical view of art and life in Proust -- True reality and caricature of reality -- Idea versus concept -- Causality, time, will -- Habit -- Two kinds of memory -- Vulgarity -- Death of habit: waking madness -- Purity, impurity -- The necessity of art -- Schopenhauer made use of -- Schopenhauer altered -- The proustian equation, the proustian solution -- Affirmation of the will, voluntarily tantalus -- Desert of loneliness, no morality -- Existence of the artist -- On some details in Beckett's literary work -- Murphy -- I am not of the big world, I am of the little world -- Vision -- Will-lessness, yearning for nothing -- Moran -- Remnants of a pensum -- A work which will subsist -- Finality without end -- Images of that kind the will cannot revive -- Dispossessed of self -- The unnamable -- What if we were one and the same after all -- There is no pronoun for me -- I have a pensum to discharge -- I'm all these words -- I am doing my best and failing : new thoughts about art and the artist -- Gogo and Didi, Hamm and Clov -- In a cage out of time and space -- In a single night -- You pollute the air -- Is it not time for my pain-killer? …”
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Rilke, modernism and poetic tradition by Ryan, Judith, 1943-

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Apollinaire on the edge modern art, popular culture, and the avant-garde / by Bohn, Willard

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Force a fundamental concept of aesthetic anthropology / by Menke, Christoph, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Sensibility: the indeterminacy of the imagination -- Praxis: the practice of the subject -- Play: the operation of force -- Aestheticization: the transformation of praxis -- Aesthetics: philosophy's contention -- Ethics: the freedom of self-creation.…”
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The madness of vision on baroque aesthetics / by Buci-Glucksmann, Christine

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, Modern 17th century.…”
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Peirce and value theory on Peircian ethics and aesthetics /

Subjects: “…(Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 Aesthetics Congresses.…”
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A mirror to nature : transformations in drama and aesthetics, 1660-1732 / by Zimbardo, Rose A.

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Art and representation contributions to contemporary aesthetics /

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, Modern.…”
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The rage of Caliban Nietzsche and Wilde : contra modernity / by Mabille, Louise

Subjects: “…Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 Aesthetics.…”
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Consequences of Enlightenment by Cascardi, Anthony J., 1953-

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Ape to Apollo aesthetics and the idea of race in the 18th century / by Bindman, David, 1940-

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, European 18th century.…”
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The century of taste the philosophical odyssey of taste in the eighteenth century / by Dickie, George, 1926-

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, Modern 18th century.…”
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The image of Christ in modern art by Harries, Richard, 1936-

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