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Art Without Borders : A Philosophical Exploration Of Art And Humanity

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Negating The Image : Case Studies In Iconoclasm

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Aesthetics And Its Discontents

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Beauty

  • Beauty

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    Book, Oxford Univ Pr, 2009

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    “Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane,” writes Roger Scruton. Can there be dangerous beauties, corrupting beauties, and immoral beauties? But while we may argue about what is or is not beautiful, Scruton insists that beauty is a real and universal value, one anchored in our rational nature, and that the sense of beauty has an indispensable part to play in shaping the human world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .S37 2009  AVAILABLE

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Transfigurements : On The True Sense Of Art

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The Hidden Art Of Hollywood : In Defense Of The Studio Era Film

  • The Hidden Art Of Hollywood : In Defense Of The Studio Era Film

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    John Fawell

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    Book, Praeger, 2008

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    While the greatness of the classic Hollywood film is, for many of us, settled business, there are also a great number who have difficulty understanding why these films - which can often seem dated and unrealistic compared to modern fare - are taken as seriously as they are. The films of certain great auteurs, including Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford, and Orson Welles, receive particular attention here, but this book is organized by ideas rather than films or artists, and it draws from a wide array of Hollywood films, both successes and failures, to make its points. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN1993.5.U65 F36 2008  AVAILABLE

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The Star As Icon : Celebrity In The Age Of Mass Consumption

  • The Star As Icon : Celebrity In The Age Of Mass Consumption

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    Daniel Herwitz

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    Book, Columbia University Press, 2008

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    Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly& mdash;the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. An effervescent being living on a distant, exalted planet, the star icon is also a melodramatic heroine desperate to escape her life and the ever-watchful eye of the media. Herwitz locates this double life in the opposing tensions of film, television, religion, and consumer culture, offering fresh perspectives on these subjects while ingeniously mapping society’s creation (and destruction) of these special aesthetic stars. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BJ1470.5 .H47 2008  AVAILABLE

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The Art Instinct : Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

  • The Art Instinct : Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution

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    Denis Dutton

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    Book, 1st U.S. ed, Bloomsbury Press, 2009

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    In a groundbreaking new book that does for art what Stephen Pinker?s The Language Instinct did for linguistics, Denis Dutton overturns a century of art theory and criticism and revolutionizes our understanding of the arts. Sure to provoke discussion in scientific circles and uproar in the art world, The Art Instinct offers radical new insights into both the nature of art and the workings of the human mind. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .D84 2009  DUE 02-28-10

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Art In Motion : Animation Aesthetics

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Italian Neorealist Cinema : An Aesthetic Approach

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Design And Aesthetics : A Reader

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Defining Art, Creating The Canon : Artistic Value In An Era Of Doubt

  • Defining Art, Creating The Canon : Artistic Value In An Era Of Doubt

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    Paul Crowther

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    Book, Clarendon Press, 2007

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    It restores the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art’s aesthetic value and ‘non-exhibited’ epistemological and historical relations. These factors converge on an expanded notion of the artistic image (a notion which can even encompass music, abstract art, and some conceptual idioms). (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .C76 2007  AVAILABLE

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On Ugliness

  • On Ugliness

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    edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwan

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    Book, 1st ed, Rizzoli, 2007

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    In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco?s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. With abundant examples of painting and sculpture ranging from ancient Greek amphorae to Bosch, Brueghel, and Goya among others, and with quotations from the most celebrated writers and philosophers of each age, this provocative discussion explores in-depth the concepts of evil, depravity, and darkness in art and literature. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH301.U5 S7613 2007  AVAILABLE

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Philosophy Of The Arts : An Introduction To Aesthetics

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Aesthetics : A Comprehensive Anthology

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