Aesthetics and painting by Gaiger, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Painting and philosophy -- A window onto the world -- Surface and subject -- Resemblance and denotation -- Pictorial style -- Modernism and the avant-garde.…”
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Painting Borges philosophy interpreting art interpreting literature / by Gracia, Jorge J. E.

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Philosophy of painting by Shih-Tʻao a translation and exposition of his Hua-Pʻu (Treatise on the philosophy of painting) / by Coleman, Earle Jerome

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Film paintings of David Lynch challenging film theory / by Mactaggart, Allister

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Inventing falsehood, making truth : Vico and Neapolitan painting / by Bull, Malcolm

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The artist's reality philosophies of art / by Rothko, Mark, 1903-1970

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Of Jews and animals by Benjamin, Andrew

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Concerning the spiritual and the concrete in Kandinsky's art / by Florman, Lisa Carol

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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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Dark writing geography, performance, design / by Carter, Paul, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Step-by-step : geography's myth -- Dark with excess of bright : mapping the coastlines of knowledge -- Drawing the line : putting spatial history into practice -- The interpretation of dreams : mobilizing the papunya tula painting movement, 1971-1972 -- Making tracks : interpreting a ground plan -- Solutions : storyboarding a humid zone -- Trace : a running commentary on Relay -- Dark writing : the body's inscription in history's light.…”
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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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Farocki/Godard : Film as Theory / by Pantenburg, Volker, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The Camera as Brush -- Film and Painting: Narrating with Images: Breathless -- Exploding the Museum: Pierrot le fou -- Arranging Things: Still Life -- Processing Images: Passion -- 3. …”
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Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts /

Table of Contents: “…Robinson -- Kierkegaard's Christian Bildungsroman / Joakim Garff -- Performing arts -- Beyond the mask : Kierkegaard's postscript as antitheatrical, anti-Hegelian drama / Howard Pickett -- A theater of ideas : performance and performativity in Kierkegaard's Repetition / Martijn Boven -- Kierkegaard's notions of drama and opera : Moliere's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the question of music and sensuousness / Nils Holger Petersen -- "Let no one invite me, for I do not dance" : Kierkegaard's attitudes toward dance / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- Visual arts and film -- Painting with words : Kierkegaard and the aesthetics of the icon / Christopher B. …”
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The Sanitary Arts : Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns by Cleere, Eileen

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