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Over de zin van nut : een filosofisch essay
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ISBN: 9789045006307 9045006308 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam/Antwerpen Atlas

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De moderne mens is gesteld op efficiëntie. We willen dat problemen aangepakt worden en voelen ons verantwoordelijk voor het goed functioneren van de wereld. Geconfronteerd met onrecht kunnen we ons moeilijk voorstellen dat we niets zouden doen. Onze cultuur is door en door utilitair en pragmatisch: gericht op nuttigheid en op het oplossen van problemen. Tegelijk voelen we ons ook wel eens onbehaaglijk bij de neveneffecten van een doorgedreven nutsdenken. Een rationele aanpak van problemen leidt niet altijd tot een beter leven en brengt zelfs in gevaar wat ons het meest dierbaar is. We hebben het sterke vermoeden dat wat werkelijk van waarde is, niet in termen van nut valt uit te drukken.Maar wat vormt nu eigenlijk het probleem van het probleemoplossende denken? Wat is de zin van nut? In dit boek gaat Peter Venmans op zoek naar de filosofische bronnen van ons pragmatische levensgevoel. Hij vindt die bij Engelse utilitaristen zoals Jeremy Bentham en John Stuart Mill en bij hun Amerikaanse tegenhangers John Dewey en Richard Rorty

Picture theory : essays on verbal and visual representation
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ISBN: 0226532313 0226532321 9780226532325 9780226532318 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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What precisely, W.J.T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.


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Art since 1900 : modernism, antimodernism, postmodernism
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ISBN: 9780500239537 0500239533 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson

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Groundbreaking in both its content and its presentation, Art Since 1900 has been hailed as a landmark study in the history of art. Conceived by some of the most influential art historians of our time, this extraordinary book has now been revised, expanded and brought right up to date to include the latest developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, the authors present 130 articles, each focusing on a crucial event - such as the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an important text, or the opening of a major exhibition - to tell the myriad stories of art from 1900 to the present. All the key turning-points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions. This expanded edition includes a new introduction on the impact of globalization, as well as essays on the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer art, South African photography, and the rise of the new museum of art. Acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of art in the modern age.


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Bruce Nauman : disappearing acts
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ISBN: 9783906315102 9781633450318 1633450317 390631510X Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY The Museum of Modern Art

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Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art, and the stringent questioning of values --both aesthetic and moral-- that has long sustained his project remains urgent today. For more than fifty years, Nauman has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement, and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the world. This richly illustrated catalogue, which includes rare and previously unpublished images, offers a comprehensive view of the artist's work in all media --including drawings; early fiberglass sculptures; sound environments; architecturally scaled, participatory constructions; rhythmically blinking neons; and a recent 3-D video that harks back to one of Nauman's earliest performances. A wide range of authors --artists, curators, and historians of art, architecture, and film-- focus on topics that have been largely neglected, such as the architectural structures that posit real or imaginary spaces as models for ethical inquiry and mechanisms of control. Curator Kathy Halbreich's introductory essay explores Nauman's many acts of disappearance, withdrawal, and deflection as revelatory of his central formal and intellectual concerns. Eighteen further contributions tease out the various themes that run through this protean and elusive artist's work.


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A cultural history of the senses in antiquity
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ISBN: 9780857853394 9780857853387 9780857853400 9780857853417 9780857853424 9780857853431 9780857853448 9781350077836 9781350077898 9781474233132 9781474233149 9781350077904 9781474233194 9781474233200 9781350077911 9781474233101 9781474233118 9781350078000 9781474233071 9781474233088 9781350078017 9781474233163 9781474233170 135007800X 0857853430 9781350077843 9781474232982 9781474233040 1350077836 1350077844 1350078018 1350077895 1350077909 1350077917 1350077844 1350077917 0857853384 1474233171 1474233163 1474232981 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Bloomsbury

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"The Cultural History of the Senses set delves into the sensory foundations of Western civilization, taking a comprehensive period-by-period approach which provides a broad understanding of the life of the senses from antiquity to the modern day. Each of the volumes explores the following topics: The Social Life of the Senses; Urban Sensations; The Senses in the Marketplace; The Senses in Religion; The Senses in Philosophy and Science; Medicine and the Senses; The Senses in Literature; Art and the Senses; and Sensory Media. Superbly illustrated, this six-volume set is the most authoritative and comprehensive historical survey of the senses available."--Page 4 of cover.

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Cognitive psychology --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- Antiquity --- Sensation. --- Perception --- Cultural Characteristics --- Western World --- History of Medicine --- history --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 500-1499 --- senses --- History of Europe --- History of civilization --- Aesthetics of art --- History of Medicine. --- history. --- Perception. --- Psychische functies --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- Geschiedenis van Europa --- Senses and sensation --- Enlightenment --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- History --- Civilization, Ancient --- Civilization, Greco-Roman --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- Supraliminal perception --- Cognition --- Apperception --- Thought and thinking --- Greco-Roman civilization --- Civilization, Classical --- Ancient civilization --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- MAD-faculty 17 --- opleiding art sense(s) lab --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- middeleeuwen --- moderne tijd --- antieke wereld --- Verlichting --- Ancient history --- 15.10 subdisciplines of history. --- 20.08 art psychology. --- Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Greco-Roman. --- Senses and sensation. --- History. --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis

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