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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction
Routledge | 1999-11 | 273 Pages | ISBN: 0415159636 | PDF | 1 MB
Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics. It aims to introduce the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this field of inquiry. These include the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art, as well as historical approaches to the nature of art. Throughout the book, abstract philosophical theories are illustrated by examples of both traditional and contemporary art, thereby enriching the readers understanding of art theory as well as the appreciation of art.
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The Saints of Modern Art
UPNE | pages: 371 | 1998 | ISBN: 0874517656 | CHM | 12,5 mb
Despite the austere sound of asceticism as the premise for a study of contemporary art and thought, this is a book that is meant to bring the kind of intense pleasure to readers that it brought to me as I wrote it. These essays are offered to be enjoyed, not as a monolithic attempt to account for the evolution of Modernist aesthetics through the rubric of self-denial nor as a definition of one ascetic ideal after which all great Modern art is in some way fashioned.
This is a series of interconnected essays, each as short and as jargon-free as possible, on a very wide spectrum of artists and thinkers who fostered an asceticism that is so individualized as to defy generalization. The pleasure of considering this diverse group of thinkers and artists will, I hope, arise from the realization that asceticism can be so varied and, in that way, so alive at a time when its religious foundations have all but crumbled.
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Art Power
MIT Press | ISBN: 0262072920 | edition 2008 | PDF | 224 pages | 10,5 mb
Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and exclusion. In Art Power, Groys examines modern and contemporary art according to its ideological function. Art, Groys writes, is produced and brought before the public in two ways—as a commodity and as a tool of political propaganda. In the contemporary art scene, very little attention is paid to the latter function; the official and unofficial art of the former Soviet Union and other former Socialist states, for example, is largely excluded from the field of institutionally recognized art, usually on moral grounds (although, Groys points out, criticism of the morality of the market never leads to calls for a similar exclusion of art produced under market conditions).
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Writing and Cultural Influence: Studies in Rhetorical History, Orientalist Discourse, and Post-Colonial Criticism
Peter Lang Publishing | 2003 | ISBN 0820462098 | PDF | 147 pages | 10.3 MB
Appearing as the eighteenth volume in the Peter Lang series Comparative Cultures and Literatures, Writing and Cultural Influence: Studies in Rhetorical History, Orientalist Discourse, and Post-Colonial Criticism by Lahcen Ezzaher is an ambitious albeit slim book focusing on rhetorical influences between Eastern and Western cultures, ancient and modern. While the purview of the book extends outside of the field of rhetoric proper –encompassing topics germane to literature, linguistics, and critical theory – it especially contributes to the emerging field called comparative rhetoric. But unlike George Kennedy’s pioneering work in this field (Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction, 1998), Writing and Cultural Influence might best be characterized as a revisionist history of rhetoric.
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Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism
Longman | 1994 | ISBN 0582083478 | 285 Pages | PDF OCR | 8.6 MB
This collection of essays provides students of literary critical theory with an introduction to Freudian methods of interpretation, and shows how those methods have been transformed by recent developments in French psychoanalysis, particularly by the influence of Jacques Lacan. It explains how classical Freudian criticism tended to focus on the thematic content of the literary text, whereas Lacanian criticism focuses on its linguistic structure, redirecting the reader to the words themselves. Concepts and methods are defined by tracing the role played by the drama of Oedipus in the development of psychoanalytic theory and criticism. The essays cover a wide generic scope and are divided into three parts: drama, narrative and poetry. Each is accompanied by explanatory headnotes giving clear definitions of complex terms.
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Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History: Shaping Modern Musical Thought in Late Nineteenth Century Vienna
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195368665 | edition 2008 | PDF | 240 pages | 11 mb
More than a century after Guido Adler's appointment to the first chair in musicology at the University of Vienna, Music, Criticism, and the Challenge of History provides a first look at the discipline in this earliest period, and at the ideological dilemmas and methodological anxieties that characterized it upon its institutionalization. Author Kevin Karnes contends that some of the most vital questions surrounding musicology's disciplinary identities today-the relationship between musicology and criticism, the role of the subject in analysis and the narration of history, and the responsibilities of the scholar to the listening public-originate in these conflicted and largely forgotten beginnings.
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Twentieth-Century Historical, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Cambridge University Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0521300142 | 496 pages | PDF | 12,8 MB
This volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism brings together a wide range of highly informative essays on developments in literary criticism and theory during the twentieth century. The main focus is on historical, philosophical and sociocultural approaches to literature and it offers both authoritative treatments of the topics under review and a lively sense of engagement and dialogue among the contributors. It has a full bibliographical apparatus and provides an invaluable resource for readers who are seeking to orient themselves in this complex and often bewildering field.
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Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation
Taylor & Francis (2006) | English | ISBN 0203969758 | 422 pages | PDF | 2.45 MB
Compiling the results from contemporary and exciting areas of research into one single important volume, this book stands ahead in its field in providing a comprehensive one-stop handbook reference of biblical interpretation. Examining a wide range of articles on many of the recognized interpreters including Augustine, Luther, and Calvin, up to the modern figures of Martin Hengel and T.W. Manson, Professor Porter expertly combines the study of biblical interpretation with the examination of the theological and philosophical preconceptions that have influenced it, and surveys the history of interpretation from different perspectives.
Key Perspectives studied include:
* The historical dimension: Addresses how interpretation has developed at various periods of time, from early Jewish exegesis to the historical-critical method;
* The conceptual approach: Looks at the various schools of thought that have generated biblical interpretation, and compares and contrasts competing conceptual models of interpretation;
* The personal perspective: Addresses the reality of biblical interpretation by individuals who have helped plot the course of theological development.
With relevant bibliographies and a guide to further reading, The Dictionary will be an extremely important reference held for many years, not only by libraries, but also by students, scholars, clergy, and teachers of this fascinating and high-profile subject.
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