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The ArtsNovember 2018Art as worldmaking
Critical essays on realism and naturalism
by Malcolm Baker, Andrew Hemingway, Andrew Hemingway, Briony Fer, Joshua Shannon, Adrian Rifkin, Malcolm Baker, Martina Droth, Caroline Arscott, Anne Wagner, Martin Powers, Neil McWilliam, Celeste Brusati, T.J. Clark, Rebecca Zurier, Steve Edwards, Tamar Garb, Lisa Tickner, Alistair Rider, Thomas Crow, Gail Day
Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel and Eakins, or the question of nineteenth-century realism's historical antecedents, it is contemporary in orientation in that many contributors are particularly concerned with the questions that sculpture, photography and non-traditional media pose for realism as an aesthetic norm. It will be essential reading for students of art history concerned with art's truth value or more broadly with conceptual problems of representation and the intersections of art and politics.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2021Critical theory and feeling
The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School
by Simon Mussell
This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between thinking and feeling, and rediscovers a range of often neglected concepts that were of vital importance to the first generation of critical theorists, including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects and mimesis. In doing so, it brings the dynamic work of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer into conversation with more recent debates around politics and affect. An important intervention in the fields of affect studies and social and political thought, Critical theory and feeling shows that sensuous experience is at the heart of the Frankfurt School's affective politics.
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August 2000Jenseits der Mimesis
Parnassische transposition d’art und der Paradigmenwandel in der Lyrik des 19. Jahrhunderts
by Herausgegeben von Hempfer, Klaus W.
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November 2000Was ist Literaturgeschichte?
by Stephen Greenblatt, Barbara Naumann, Reinhard Kaiser, Catherine Belsey
Im England der frühen Neuzeit konnte die schlichte Fähigkeit zu buchstabieren lebensrettend sein: Daran entschied sich nämlich, ob man der weltlichen Gerichtsbarkeit überantwortet wurde oder der geistlichen, die die Todesstrafe nicht kannte. Greenblatt beschreibt, wie sich von dieser existentiellen Bedeutung aus der Literaturbegriff immer weiter verzweigte und wie aus einer »Buchstabenwissenschaft« Literaturwissenschaft im modernen Sinn wurde. Ergänzt wird der Band durch einen Kommentar der britischen Literaturwissenschaftlerin Catherine Belsey und eine Betrachtung zu einem der großartigsten Werke der Literaturwissenschaft, zu Erich Auerbachs Mimesis-Buch.
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May 2003Geschichte der sechs Begriffe
Kunst, Schönheit, Form, Kreativität, Mimesis, ästhetisches Erlebnis
by Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Friedrich Griese
Die Geschichte der sechs Begriffe des herausragenden polnischen Philosophen Władysław Tatarkiewicz ergänzt seine unvollendet gebliebene Geschichte der Ästhetik und führt sie in einzelnen Aspekten bis ins 20. Jahrhundert fort. Tatarkiewicz behandelt zentrale Fragen der Ästhetik durch eine Geschichte der Begriffe Kunst, Schönheit, Form, Kreativität, Mimesis und ästhetische Erfahrung, die er von der Antike über das Mittelalter und die Moderne bis in die zweite Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts führt. Seine Ausführungen sind von großer Anschaulichkeit und Prägnanz. Die Geschichte der sechs Begriffe ist bereits in mehr als zehn Sprachen übersetzt worden; allein in Spanien erschienen sieben Auflagen, in Italien drei. »Das Gute – das Schöne – das Wahre, Theorie – Handeln – Schaffen, Logik – Ethik – Ästhetik, Wissenschaft – Moral – Kunst, Natur – menschliche Erzeugnisse, objektives und subjektives Eigentum, Gedachtes und Erdachtes, Elemente – Formen, Dinge – Zeichen: Alle diese Unterscheidungen und Kategorien sind grundlegend für das Denken der Welt, zumindest der westlichen Welt. Zu ihnen gehören: das Schöne, das Schaffen, die Ästhetik, die Kunst, die Form. Ohne Zweifel: Die Ästhetik und ihre Hauptbegriffe zählen zum allgemeinsten und dauerhaftesten Gut des menschlichen Denkens. Nicht minder dauerhaft sind ihre großen Gegensätze: Schaffen und Erkenntnis, Kunst und Natur, Dinge und Zeichen.« Władysław Tatarkiewicz
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Fortune-telling & divinationSeptember 2021The Power of Symbols, Sacred Images for Meditation and Divination
Immagini Sacre per Meditare e Divinare
by Stefano Fusi
THE POWER OF SYMBOLS Sacred Images for Meditation and Divination by Stefano Fusi Artwork by Stefano Fusi Product Details 41 cards + 68-page guidebook+gold extra thin point marker Guide book size: 85 x 130 mm Card size: 85 x 130 mm ISBN: 978-1-955680-03-5 Imprint: Edizioni LAlbero All our oracles are designed and printed in Italy using only 100% ecofriendly material and non toxic inks and varnishes. Symbols are the signs that reveal and perpetuate the unlimited universe in our world and in our common life. They reveal meanings beyond those obvious to the senses and to our rational sphere. They exist before we can imagine or think about them: like genes and DNA on the physical plane, symbols pre-exist us, they carry with them the original instructions of life. They exist in nature and we have then encoded them to express in perceptible and comprehensible forms the essential forces that structure existence since the beginning. They are a synthetic map of the motions of what we call energy.The Power of Symbols is a deck of 41 Oracles with guide book.
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EducationEducated Fear and Educated Hope
Dystopia, Utopia and the Plasticity of Humanity
by Papastephanou, M.
Beyond dominant tendencies to contrast utopia and ideology, the book reconceptualizes utopia and approaches it along with the notion of dystopia. The interplay of utopia and dystopia is examined, some major anti-utopian arguments are refuted and a new utopianism emerges, one that radicalizes critique and makes engagement with present global realities more pressing. Educated fear, i.e., a critical awareness of dystopian realities, and educated hope, i.e., a critical awareness of the possibility of human perfectibility cohabit a theoretical space that breaks with utopianist modern theoretical underpinnings and becomes historically and spatially more inclusive, while retaining the motivational and justificatory force of ethical imagery. If education is not just an institution of unreflective socialization, if it is about futurity, it has to renegotiate utopian thought. As the interest in utopia is being renewed both in general philosophy and philosophy of education and as dystopia is still neglected, a book that re-defines utopianism and explores for the first time the role of dystopia in radicalizing educational demands for systemic change is indispensable for Utopian Studies, Philosophy and Philosophy of Education academics and students alike. The title of the book is first transliterated into Utopia, a typeface in which Brazilian artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain replace capital letters with the iconic buildings of Brazil´s foremost modernist architect, Oscar Niemeyer, whilst lower-case letters are equated with urban interferences such as fences, skateboarders, CCTV cameras, electricity cables, in short, all those elements that escaped the utopian dream of the architect. To me, it bears associations of the philosophical notion of counterfactuality and of Adorno´s notion of mimesis. The title is then transliterated into Helvetica Concentrated (a digital typeface that concentrates the surface of Helvetica characters in dots which has been created by Detanico and Lain in collaboration with Jiri Skala). The term Helvetica bears the associations of a modernist utopia of success, performativity, prosperity, predictability, rational planning and uniformity.
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February 2020Periferie
Dall’eterotopia alla rigenerazione
by Emanuele, Iula
The book presents an original philosophical reflection on the urban suburbs, on their birth and their functioning, as well as on the human suburbs, with the experience of those who live "remotely", as a peripheral being. The path followed leads to a substantial reformulation of our way of understanding the suburbs, in the wake of the pastoral attention of the magisterium of Pope Francis, with the aim of opening new paths of meaning.
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The ArtsAugust 2020BRASIL ARQUITETURA - FRANCISCO FANUCCI AND MARCELO FERRAZ
2005-2020 projects
by Abilio Guerra (editor), Marcos Grinspum Ferraz (editor) & Silvana Romano Santos (editor)
With critical essays and a large number of images and technical information, this book retrieves the expressive architectural production of the Brasil Arquitetura office, which greatly contributes to the appreciation and plurality of one of the most expressive Brazilian cultural manifestations – Architecture
