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Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research

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Publisher: Berg Publishers: 2002-07-01

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ISBN: 1859735479

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Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics

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Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2007-01-08

Seller ID: M0822339188Z2

ISBN: 0822339188

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Aesthetic Quality and Aesthetic Experience (Elementa 50)

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Publisher: Rodopi: 1988-01-01

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ISBN: 9062037100

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From Text to Literature: New Analytic and Pragmatic Approaches

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2005-08-17

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ISBN: 1403993327

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The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues which arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and analyzing the phenomenon of literature.
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1990/1991: RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics: Volume 19, and 20 (v. 19/20)

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1991-12-01

Seller ID: M0521421659Z2

ISBN: 0521421659

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Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics

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Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2007-01-08

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ISBN: 0822339072

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Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics

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Publisher: Duke University Press Books: 2007-01-08

Seller ID: M0822339188Z3

ISBN: 0822339188

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In Cameroon, a monumental "statue of liberty" is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic the...
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From Text to Literature: New Analytic and Pragmatic Approaches

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Price: $113.01

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: 2005-08-17

Seller ID: M1403993327Z3

ISBN: 1403993327

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Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research

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Publisher: Berg Publishers: 2002-07-01

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ISBN: 1859735479

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Colour shapes our world in profound, if sometimes subtle, ways. It helps us to classify, form opinions, and make aesthetic and emotional judgements. Colour operates in every culture as a symbol, a metaphor, and as part of an aesthetic system. Yet archaeologists have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to the form and material value of the objects they find and thereby overlook its impact on conceptual systems throughout human history.This book explores the means by which colour-based cultural understandings are formed, and how they are used to sustain or alter social relations. From...
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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 48: Autumn 2005: Permanent/Impermanent

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Publisher: Peabody Museum Press: 2005-12-15

Seller ID: M0873657667Z3

ISBN: 0873657667

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The contents of this issue are: Susan Sontag, in memoriam; "Presentation," by Finbarr Barry Flood and Zoe S. Strother; "Restoration as recreation at the Sainte-Chapelle of Paris," by Meredith Cohen; "Ars Longa Vita Brevis: Art after agency in ancient Maya sculpture," by Bryan R. Just; "Recycling icons and bodies in Chinese anti-Buddhist persecutions," by Eric Reinders; "Censorship and iconoclasm--unsettling monuments," by John Peffer; "Beyond monument lies empire: Mapping Songhay space in sixteenth-century Mali," by Kristina Van Dyke; "When the object of transmission is not an object: A West A...
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Maps and Mirrors: Topologies of Art and Politics (Philosophy, Literature And Culture)

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Publisher: Northwestern University Press: 2001-04-18

Seller ID: M0810116731Z3

ISBN: 0810116731

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Maps and Mirrors explores the links and gaps between the aesthetic and the political at the intersection of philosophy and literature. Testing the major voices of aesthetic and literary theory, it raises important questions about the implicit political contexts and commitments of thinkers from Kant to de Man. Taken together the essays provide a tour of the complexities and richness of contemporary modes of critique.

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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 47: Spring 2005

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Publisher: Peabody Museum Press: 2005-09-30

Seller ID: M0873658566Z3

ISBN: 0873658566

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The contents of this issue are: Editorial, "Socrates' death," by Remo Guidieri; "Antimasque, Pageant: Restoration and Bethlem at Moorfields," by Christine Stevenson; "Picturing Madness in 1905: Giacomo Balla's La Pazza and the cycle The Living," by Christine Poggi; "Quoting Eros: Visual culture, irony and anachronism in Thomas Mann," by Filippo Fimiani; "Cosmos and warfare on a Classic Maya vase," by Oswaldo Chinchilla; "Women and political power: The inclusion and exclusion of noblewomen in Aztec pictorial histories," by Lori Boornazian Diel; "Ancestors and commemoration in Igbo Odo masquerad...
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Autumn 1993: RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics: Volume 24 (v. 24)

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1993-10-01

Seller ID: M0521447429Z2

ISBN: 0521447429

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The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

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Publisher: Columbia University Press: 2005-02-23

Seller ID: M0231135025Z2

ISBN: 0231135025

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The aesthetics of everyday life, originally developed by Henri Lefebvre and other modernist theorists, is an extension of traditional aesthetics, usually confined to works of art. It is not limited to the study of humble objects but is rather concerned with all of the undeniably aesthetic experiences that arise when one contemplates objects or performs acts that are outside the traditional realm of aesthetics. It is concerned with the nature of the relationship between subject and object.

One significant aspect of everyday aesthetics is environmental aesthetics, whether constructed, as a b...
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Spring 1994: RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics: Volume 25 (v. 25)

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Price: $26.89

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1994-09-30

Seller ID: M0521466636Z2

ISBN: 0521466636

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Res is a journal of anthropology and comparative aesthetics dedicated to the study of the object, in particular cult and belief objects and objects of art. The journal presents contributions by philosophers, art historians, archaeologists, critics, linguists, architects, artists, and others. Its field of inquiry is open to all cultures, regions, and historical periods. Res also publishes iconographic and textual documents important to the history and theory of the arts. Res appears twice yearly, in the spring and autumn. The journal is edited by Francesco Pellizzi. More information about Res i...
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Colouring the Past: The Significance of Colour in Archaeological Research

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Publisher: Berg Publishers: 2002-07-01

Seller ID: M1859735428Z3

ISBN: 1859735428

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The Aesthetics of Everyday Life

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Price: $73.65

Publisher: Columbia University Press: 2005-02-23

Seller ID: M0231135025Z3

ISBN: 0231135025

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One significant aspect of everyday aesthetics is environmental aesthetics, whether constructed, as a b...
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Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1976-08-15

Seller ID: M0226348121Z4

ISBN: 0226348121

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Standard-sized. A - This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. PAPERBACK
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