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Platonic architectonics : platonic philosophies and the visual arts
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ISBN: 0820471100 9780820471105 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York: Lang,

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Theories of art. 2, From Winckelmann to Baudelaire
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ISBN: 0415926254 9780203700532 0203700538 9781135199661 1135199663 0415926262 0415926270 9780415926270 9780415926263 9780415926256 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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Aesthetic life : the past and present of artistic cultures
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ISBN: 0761836780 9780761836780 0761836772 9780761836773 Year: 2007 Publisher: Lanham University Press of America

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The invention of taste : a cultural account of desire, delight and disgust in fashion, food and art
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ISBN: 100019020X 1000183572 1003087027 1474273629 1474273637 1474273610 9781003087021 9781000183573 9781000187083 100018708X 9781350048010 9781474273602 9781474273619 9781000190205 1350048011 1474273602 9781474273626 9781474273633 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury,

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"The Invention of Taste provides a detailed overview of the development of taste, from ancient times to the present. At the heart of the book is an intriguing question: why did the sensory attribute of human taste become a social metaphor and aesthetic value for judging cultural qualities of art, fashion, cuisine and other social constructions? Unique amongst the senses, taste is at once a biologically derived sense, private, personal and individual, yet also a sensibility which can be acquired, shared, and communicated. Exploring the many factors that defined the evolution of taste -- from medieval morals and medicine to social and cultural philosophy, the rise of aesthetics, birth of fashion, branding trends, and luxury worship in the age of mass consumption -- Luca Vercelloni's ambitious text provides readers with an outstanding introduction to the subject, making it the cultural history of taste. Now available for the first time in English, Taste features a new final chapter and a preface by series editor David Howes. Rich in detail and examples, this interdisciplinary work is an important read for students and researchers in sensory studies, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies, as well as gastronomy, fashion, design, and branding."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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A concise dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
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ISBN: 9781138577442 1138577448 9781351266888 1351266888 9781351266864 1351266861 9781351266871 135126687X 9781351266857 1351266853 9781138577435 Year: 2020 Publisher: London and New York : Routledge,

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"For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz also ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Samuel Johnson (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a "reference book" to be enjoyed, not only in bits and chunks but continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if he or she planned to be stranded on a desert isle"--

Neoplatonic aesthetics : music, literature and the visual arts
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ISBN: 0820471119 9780820471112 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York: Lang,

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Circus and the avant-gardes : history, imaginary, innovation
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ISBN: 1003163742 1000552365 1000552403 0367757303 9780367757304 9780367757281 0367757281 Year: 2022 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge,

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"This book examines how circus and circus imaginary have shaped the historical avant-gardes at the beginning of the 20th century and the cultures they help constitute, to what extent this is a mutual shaping, and why this is still relevant today. This book aims to produce a better sense of the artistic work and cultural achievements that have emerged from the interplay of circus and avant-garde artists and projects, and to clarify both their transhistorical and trans-medial presence, and their scope for interdisciplinary expansion. Across 14 chapters written by leading scholars - from fields as varied as circus, theatre and performance studies, art, media studies, film and cultural history - some of which are written together with performers and circus practitioners, the book examines to what extent circus and avant-garde connections contribute to a better understanding of early 20th century artistic movements and their enduring legacy, of the history of popular entertainment, and the cultural relevance of circus arts. Circus and the Avant-Gardes elucidates how the realm of the circus as a model, or rather a blueprint for modernist experiment, innovation and (re)negotiation of bodies, has become fully integrated in our ways of perceiving avant-gardes today. The book does not only map the significance of circus/avant-garde phenomena for the past, but, through an exploration of their contemporary actualisations (in different media), also carves out their achievements, relevance, and impact, both cultural and aesthetic, on the present time."--


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A history of esthetics
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ISBN: 0837162076 9780837162072 Year: 1972 Publisher: Westport (Conn.): Greenwood

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1650-1850 : Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 26).
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ISBN: 1684483247 Year: 2021 Publisher: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press,

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Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft’s irreverance. The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson’s political writings and of the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers into minute details in order to see the outer limits of Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume 26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art. About the annual journal 1650-1850 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines: literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for special features that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.


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Tides in English Taste (1619-1800).
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ISBN: 0674729897 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Although the history of literature and the history of art are so closely interwoven as to be indispensable to one another, it has been extremely difficult for readers of literature to gain any knowledge of the arts of design because the information is widely scattered in books written by specialists for specialists. Recognizing this fact, B. Sprague Allen has taken a corner of the vast field and discussed the development of taste in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His book is an account of taste, that is, the likes and dislikes of the men who built and furnished houses and laid out gardens in this period of English culture. Their taste is revealed to a hitherto unrecognized extent in diaries, letters, essays, and plays, and is an index of English civilization. Allen has thus been concerned with the whole complex pattern of living and has made us think and feel and see with the faculties of the cultivated Englishman of two or three hundred years ago.

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