In the development of English aesthetics, William Hogarth's 'The Analysis of Beauty' takes a position of high significance. In this now classic edition, Ronald Paulson includes the complete text of the original work; an introduction that places the 'Analysis' in the tradition of aesthetic treatises and Hogarth's own 'moral' works; extensive annotation of the text and accompanying illustrations; and illuminating manuscript passages that Hogarth omitted from the final printed version. Hogarth's...
Critique of Creativity
by Stefan Nowotny, Suely Rolnik, and Maurizio Lazzarato
During the early days of the Second World War, the Catalan painter, Joan Miro, created a startling series of twenty-three gouaches, his Constellations, works redolent with the nightmare of contemporary events. In 1958 the French poet Andre Breton composed his own "Constellations," a set of hermetic prose poems meant to "illustrate"--that is, not simply to shed light on, but to lend luster to--Miro's paintings, and to resume a peripatetic dialogue about exile. In Constellations of Miro, Breton Pa...
La Estetica del Romanico y El Gotico
by Jessica Jacues Pi and Jessica Jaques Pi
A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companies, the projection of “creative Britain” as a national brand—all nurtured and promoted the emergence of London as “a new capital of art.” Extensively illustrated and r...
It is often difficult to describe beauty or even justify attempts to experience something beautiful. Yet if artists - whether painters or poets, actors or musicians, architects or sculptors - teach us anything, it is that the pursuit of beauty is a common feature among all humanity. As Cecilia Gonz?ílez-Andrieu contends, these varied experiences with artistic beauty are embedded with revelatory and prophetic power that not only affects a single individual but allows for communal formation. Named...
The Art of Whistler
by Professor Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell
In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at times by colleagues from related fields, including social policy, architecture, art history, urban plann...
Art of the Andes (World of Art S.) (World of Art)
by Rebecca Stone-Miller
This is a study of the art and architecture created by the various cultures of the ancient Andes. The book examines the goldwork, intricate textiles, vast cities and tall pyramids that constitute one of the oldest artistic traditions in history which, although the Incas are famous as the masters of the largest empire in the Renaissance world, remains relatively little-known. A range of Andean art is covered , revealing the achievements of the Chavin, Paracus, Moche, Chimu and Inca cultures. Illu...